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by stop@800 » Sat Sep 20, 2008 11:19 am
A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
1. had elected early retirement rather than face
2. had elected early retirement instead of facing
3. have elected retiring early instead of facing
4. have elected to retire early rather than facing
5. have elected to retire early rather than face

The OA is 5 however I marked 4 because facing would go parallel with rising.
Please help me understand the gap!!
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by mastbombay » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:07 pm
Hi break the sentence into fragments.......

A recent study has found ............, many doctors have elected to retire ealry rather than (to) face the threats of lawsuits and (to face) the rising costs of malpractice insurance.


pay attention to parallel fragments......

face the threats of lawsuits

face the rising costs of malpractice insurance.


stop@800 wrote:A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
1. had elected early retirement rather than face
2. had elected early retirement instead of facing
3. have elected retiring early instead of facing
4. have elected to retire early rather than facing
5. have elected to retire early rather than face

The OA is 5 however I marked 4 because facing would go parallel with rising.
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by sp19 » Sat Sep 20, 2008 1:25 pm
stop@800,
As far as I remember, "instead of" is used for comparing nouns (person, place , thing). When you have phrases ( or actions) it is better to use "rather than". And that is why only 5th option has parallelism when you choose "rather than".

So this statement has two issues, "idiom usage" and "parallelism". You need to fix both of them.

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by stop@800 » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:15 am
You are right mastbombay, I should have catched this with
facing / the rising.

Thanks you and
Thanks sp19 for clarifying the difference between instead of and rather than.
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:17 am
to retire early and to face shld be parllel but in option 5 , to face is not given then howcm these are parllel.pls explain
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by stop@800 » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:01 am
Vivek,
to love, to live and to die
can also be written as
to love, live and die [to is common for all]
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by NSNguyen » Wed Sep 24, 2008 2:51 am
IMO: D
have elected .. right tense
than facing - right - after preposition than should be V-ing,
in E , i would choose if face be change to "to face"
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by LifetimesofSC » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:47 am
The answer is 5 and was listed in the 1st post.

I wouldn't use ''facing'' unless there is a ''were''. Since Doctors have an option- either elect early retirement OR face the threats of lawsuits.


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by arora007 » Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:33 am
stop@800 wrote:You are right mastbombay, I should have catched this with
facing / the rising.

Thanks you and
Thanks sp19 for clarifying the difference between instead of and rather than.
Thanks for pointing out this small but important mistake....

I had chosen D , I thought my answer was right...drawing an analogy from "The Gaint Fungus" example

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by KrishnenduB » Wed Feb 08, 2012 12:59 pm
Stop@800 : Very nice exemplification for clearing the doubt.
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