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by sachin_yadav » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:33 am
Hi everyone,

I came across a question in which i was confused between two options; however i also found a link

https://www.beatthegmat.com/1000sc-24-31-t1300.html

saurabhbansal18 wrote:A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face
sumanr84 wrote:Takeaway:

Have + ed + ing constructions are always wrong ( i think from spidy notes)

so, C is wrong.

||ism is b/w retire and face so choose E.

I was also confused between C and E, because both seems to be talking about parallelism; however after looking at the option C again i found that the construction in C ,have elected retiring, is wrong.

The structure of the present perfect continuous tense is:-

Subject + auxiliay verb + auxiliary verb + main verb
Subject + has/have + been + base-ing

or

[has/have + been + present participle]

for example:-
I have been singing
You have been waiting here for two hours

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb ... inuous.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pre ... nuous.html

So, using grammar, i selected option E, which is correct and parallel and talks about present.
Because we cannot ignore grammar and this is important.

Is my way correct ?
Experts, anyone can you please add on this.

Thanks & Regards
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by diebeatsthegmat » Sat Jan 29, 2011 12:51 am
sachin_yadav wrote:Hi everyone,

I came across a question in which i was confused between two options; however i also found a link

https://www.beatthegmat.com/1000sc-24-31-t1300.html

saurabhbansal18 wrote:A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face
sumanr84 wrote:Takeaway:

Have + ed + ing constructions are always wrong ( i think from spidy notes)

so, C is wrong.

||ism is b/w retire and face so choose E.

I was also confused between C and E, because both seems to be talking about parallelism; however after looking at the option C again i found that the construction in C ,have elected retiring, is wrong.

The structure of the present perfect continuous tense is:-

Subject + auxiliay verb + auxiliary verb + main verb
Subject + has/have + been + base-ing

or

[has/have + been + present participle]

for example:-
I have been singing
You have been waiting here for two hours

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb ... inuous.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pre ... nuous.html

So, using grammar, i selected option E, which is correct and parallel and talks about present.
Because we cannot ignore grammar and this is important.

Is my way correct ?
Experts, anyone can you please add on this.
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Thanks & Regards
Sachin

the problem here is not about parallel... the word " elect" something to do something
the word " elect" is used as the word " use" ( in order to show aims) its idiom is " elect something to DO something"
the phrase " within the past few year" is for present perfect tense....
and " instead of" here is a problem too...
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by sachin_yadav » Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:32 am
diebeatsthegmat wrote:

the problem here is not about parallel... the word " elect" something to do something
the word " elect" is used as the word " use" ( in order to show aims) its idiom is " elect something to DO something"
the phrase " within the past few year" is for present perfect tense....
and " instead of" here is a problem too...
Thanks for your reply. I completely agree with you that "elect to" is an idiom for example:-

She ELECTED TO WITHDRAW her money early. (correct)-AND- she ELECTED WITHDRAWING her money early. (incorrect)

But if you look at the option C, have elected retiring early instead of facing.

This is present perfect continuous tense which is grammatically incorrect.

If you talk about parallelism, then option E is talking about parallelism because "RATHER THAN" is an idiom too.

X rather than Y for example:- He wrote with pencils rather than with pens.

Third, MGMAT SC-4th edition says GMAT seems to avoid INSTEAD OF. If this is the case, next time i will simply eliminate the choices that talk about "instead of" compared to "rather than".

But still feel that option C can be eliminated on the base of grammar.

Anyone please put some light on this.

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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:34 am
sachin_yadav wrote:Hi everyone,

I came across a question in which i was confused between two options; however i also found a link

https://www.beatthegmat.com/1000sc-24-31-t1300.html

saurabhbansal18 wrote:A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face
sumanr84 wrote:Takeaway:

Have + ed + ing constructions are always wrong ( i think from spidy notes)

so, C is wrong.

||ism is b/w retire and face so choose E.

I was also confused between C and E, because both seems to be talking about parallelism; however after looking at the option C again i found that the construction in C ,have elected retiring, is wrong.

The structure of the present perfect continuous tense is:-

Subject + auxiliay verb + auxiliary verb + main verb
Subject + has/have + been + base-ing

or

[has/have + been + present participle]

for example:-
I have been singing
You have been waiting here for two hours

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb ... inuous.htm
https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pre ... nuous.html

So, using grammar, i selected option E, which is correct and parallel and talks about present.
Because we cannot ignore grammar and this is important.

Is my way correct ?
Experts, anyone can you please add on this.

Thanks & Regards
Sachin
Answer choice C does not have a tense issue. The word retiring is functioning not as a verb but as a noun: retiring is the direct object of the verb elected. What have the doctors elected? They have elected retiring. An -ing verb that functions as a noun is called a gerund.

C is incorrect because the correct idiom is elect to.
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by sachin_yadav » Sat Jan 29, 2011 7:58 am
GMATGuruNY wrote:
Answer choice C does not have a tense issue. The word retiring is functioning not as a verb but as a noun: retiring is the direct object of the verb elected. What have the doctors elected? They have elected retiring. An -ing verb that functions as a noun is called a gerund.

C is incorrect because the correct idiom is elect to.
Thank you so much Mitch for your reply. So, it is better to learn the idioms by heart. I will keep this in my mind.

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