Carthaginians are still commonly credited as the ones who salted Roman fields during the Punic Wars despite the existence of credible evidence to the contrary.
(A) as the ones who salted
(B) as the salters of
(C) for salting
(D) with having salted
(E) with the salting of
[spoiler]OA D , why is E wrong ?[/spoiler]
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Carthaginians are still commonly credited as the ones who salted Roman fields during the Punic Wars despite the existence of credible evidence to the contrary.
(D) with having salted
credited - salted
(D) with having salted
credited - salted
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I don't think E is wrong because of parallelism, I think E just uses more words. It is grammatically correct, but uses one more word. A bigger question is whether the GMAT would prefer the -ing construction or the extra word, both things it tries to get you to avoid.
