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MGMAT Tricky Parallelism - OG

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by vineetbatra » Sat May 01, 2010 11:34 am
According to anthropologists, the use of human language covers a wide spectrum from practical communication between people engaged in the same task to establishing hierarchy within a social group.

practical communication between people engaged in the same task to establishing hierarchy

communicating practically between people engaging in the same task to the establishment of hierarchy

practical communication between people engaged in the same task to the establishing of hierarchy

communicating practically between people engaging in the same task to hierarchy established

practical communication between people engaged in the same task to the establishment of hierarchy

OA is E

I was going through the MGMAT SC guide advanced parallelism and found that Concrete nouns cannot be parallel to Action nouns. However Action nouns can be parallel to Complex Gerund.

Now applying the same principle -

Communication is Action noun,

Establishing Hierarchy is Simple Gerund

The Establishment (Not sure but sounds like a concrete noun)

A - Action Noun Vs Simple Gerund (Wrong)
B - Simple Gerund Vs Concrete (Wrong)
C - Action Noun Vs Complex Gerund (Correct)
D - Just Wrong
E - Action Noun Vs Concrete Noun (Wrong)

Now I am doing some mistake here, either classifying the noun type or reading the rule incorrectly. Can someone please enlighten me?
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by iamseer » Sat May 01, 2010 11:51 am
IMO E

Stetement: Acc. to A, the B covers a wide spectrum from X to Y

X= practical communication and Y = the establishment of hierarchy

X and Y have to be parallel. Only option which does this is E.

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by Stacey Koprince » Tue May 04, 2010 5:17 am
You've got the rules right, yes, but your classifications on this problem aren't quite right. "establishment" when used as 'the establishment of something" is an action noun. It could also be a concrete noun - if you mean, say, a building. This establishment was built in 1928. But when you're talking about "the establishment of hierarchy," you're talking about creating something - that's an action.

Does that make more sense now?
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by vineetbatra » Fri May 21, 2010 8:28 am
Thanks Stacey, it makes sense now. But can you explain why C is wrong?

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by Stacey Koprince » Wed May 26, 2010 7:13 am
C and E make us choose between an action noun in "regular" noun form and an action noun in gerund form. Parallelism is an issue (from X to Y). The choice (the regular vs. the gerund) is the Y. What form is the X?
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