Sentence Correction

The major areas of medicine in which lasers are effective is in the cutting and closing of blond vessels, and in the destruction of tumors.
(A) is in the cutting and closing of blood vessels, and in the destruction
(B) are the cutting and closing of blood vessels, and also the case of destroying
(C) are the cutting, closing of blood vessels, and in the destroying
(D) are the cutting and closing of blood vessels, and the destruction
(E)is in the cutting and closing of blood vessels, and the destroying

ans is D

but aren't cutting and closing parallel with destroying..... pls suggest...

You cannot compare the wrong list.

First parallelism is correct between cutting and closing
Second one is logically parallel . you can see the is only before cutting not before closing. If all 3 were parallel then the should be there before closing also.

The cutting and closing is one process.
The destruction is other process.

These two processes are logically parallel, Its not always the matter of structure.

C is incorrect because we cannot have any preposition before destroying.

The major areas of medicine in which lasers are effective are
- A and B, and
- in C

This is incorrect.

shovan85 wrote:
The cutting and closing is one process.
The destruction is other process.

These two processes are logically parallel, Its not always the matter of structure.

They are grammatically parallel as well.

cutting and closing are gerunds which act as nouns. destruction is a noun. So, cutting and closing and destruction can be considered grammatically parallel as well.

shovan85 wrote:You cannot compare the wrong list.

First parallelism is correct between cutting and closing
Second one is logically parallel . you can see the is only before cutting not before closing. If all 3 were parallel then the should be there before closing also.

The cutting and closing is one process.
The destruction is other process.

These two processes are logically parallel, Its not always the matter of structure.

thanks a lot for explaining but even if we take them as parallel entity even then which one is better
1 effective in destruction of tissue
2 effective in destroying the tissue....

i guess 2 is better..pls correct me if i am wrng smewhr.....

niksworth wrote:C is incorrect because we cannot have any preposition before destroying.

The major areas of medicine in which lasers are effective are
- A and B, and
- in C

This is incorrect.

shovan85 wrote:
The cutting and closing is one process.
The destruction is other process.

These two processes are logically parallel, Its not always the matter of structure.

They are grammatically parallel as well.

cutting and closing are gerunds which act as nouns. destruction is a noun. So, cutting and closing and destruction can be considered grammatically parallel as well.

yeah nice explanation..makes sense...thx a lot!!

clueless_me wrote:

shovan85 wrote:You cannot compare the wrong list.

First parallelism is correct between cutting and closing
Second one is logically parallel . you can see the is only before cutting not before closing. If all 3 were parallel then the should be there before closing also.

The cutting and closing is one process.
The destruction is other process.

These two processes are logically parallel, Its not always the matter of structure.

thanks a lot for explaining but even if we take them as parallel entity even then which one is better
1 effective in destruction of tissue
2 effective in destroying the tissue....

i guess 2 is better..pls correct me if i am wrng smewhr.....

First of all you are not wrong here but it depends on the usage. I cannot give a concrete idea but can try to explain...

1:This procedure is effective in the destruction of the tissue.
The above statement implies to me as an accepted fact which has been tested and proven. Has been used, Is used and Going to be used.

2:This procedure is effective in destroying the tissue.
This usage is kind of awkward. But better example will be:
Although the procedure is effective in destroying the tissue, it has lots of side-effects.

In the above stmt (2) if u use the destruction it will be awkward.

I am sorry that I am a non native English speaker, so I cannot help u with the jargons like "Gerund", "Essential Modifier", etc.. I am not familiar to these Grammatical Term but I can try to give you examples in the way you should use it.

Hope this helps...

clueless_me wrote:
thanks a lot for explaining but even if we take them as parallel entity even then which one is better
1 effective in destruction of tissue
2 effective in destroying the tissue....

i guess 2 is better..pls correct me if i am wrng smewhr.....

Nope.

1 is better.
2 has a verb as an object of preposition. This is never never true. Only a noun can be an object of preposition. (such as in 1)

niksworth wrote:

clueless_me wrote:
thanks a lot for explaining but even if we take them as parallel entity even then which one is better
1 effective in destruction of tissue
2 effective in destroying the tissue....

i guess 2 is better..pls correct me if i am wrng smewhr.....

Nope.

1 is better.
2 has a verb as an object of preposition. This is never never true. Only a noun can be an object of preposition. (such as in 1)

yeah brilliant...i knew tat rule...but damm it somehow i forgot!!
thx again!!