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Parallelism Confirmation

by nycknicks11 » Tue May 24, 2011 9:50 pm
By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be

I looked this question up and alot of people are saying C is wrong because "found the noise to be" is wrong idiom. Is that true? Found X to be Y sounds ok to me. Isn't the thing wrong with C is that to be is not parallel with consisted? Infintive vs adjective.
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by HSPA » Tue May 24, 2011 11:17 pm
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by GMATToppers » Wed May 25, 2011 2:56 am
Hey nycknicks11,

What you pointed out is perfectly correct.
Option C is not wrong because "found to be" is wrong but because this option does not follow the structure not x but y.

In option C, not is followed by "to be" so ideally there must have been a phrase "but to be" which is not present in the sentence.
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by sameerballani » Wed May 25, 2011 5:35 am
nycknicks11 wrote:By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be

I looked this question up and alot of people are saying C is wrong because "found the noise to be" is wrong idiom. Is that true? Found X to be Y sounds ok to me. Isn't the thing wrong with C is that to be is not parallel with consisted? Infintive vs adjective.
IMO B

And as you said, even i feel there is no problem with Found X to be Y, but in this question it is using Found X not to be Y, which sounds awkward.

What's the correct answer?
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