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by heymayank08 » Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:03 am
The president of the block association tried to convince her neighbors they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized.
(A) they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized
(B) that they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continue to be victimized
(C) about joining forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood instead of continuing to be victimized
(D) for the joining of forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continue to be victimized
(E) to join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized

[spoiler]OA :B[/spoiler]

?????
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by GmatKiss » Mon Apr 16, 2012 11:14 am
heymayank08 wrote:The president of the block association tried to convince her neighbors they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized.
(A) they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized
(B) that they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continue to be victimized
(C) about joining forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood instead of continuing to be victimized
(D) for the joining of forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continue to be victimized
(E) to join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized

[spoiler]OA :B[/spoiler]

?????

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by patanjali.purpose » Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:49 pm
heymayank08 wrote:The president of the block association tried to convince her neighbors they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized.
(A) they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized
(B) that they should join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continue to be victimized
(C) about joining forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood instead of continuing to be victimized
(D) for the joining of forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continue to be victimized
(E) to join forces to prevent crime in the neighborhood rather than continuing to be victimized[spoiler]OA :B[/spoiler]
we need TWO KEY ELEMENTS of PRESIDENT in PARALLEL - ie JOINING and CONTINUING

(A) - SHOULD JOIN....CONTINUING; (D) JOINING...CONTINUE; (E) - TO JOIN...CONTINUING; drop A/D/E

C - Ambiguity in meaning; we cannot say from this sentence whether PRESIDENT contincing her neighbors to join the force or SHE was convincing her neighbors about SHE (HER COUNTRY) joining the force. Furthermore, President want to suggest a preference to her neighbors (this is shown by the using RATHER THAN), NOT COOMPLETE SUBSTITUTION as INSTEAD OF suggests

IMO B

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by ArunangsuSahu » Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:50 pm
(A)"that" is missing and "continuing to be victimized" is missing a subject in proper diction- INCORRECT
(B)"that" is there and the last part: "continue to be victimized" is parallel to "join forces to prevent"--[color=green]CORRECT[/color]
(C), (D) and (E) are all INCORRECT because of the explanation described in (A) and (B)

OA is (B)

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by heymayank08 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 4:56 am
thanks anuragsahu and patanjali.purpose
i guess i missed the parallelism here

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