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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:09 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.

(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
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by hardik.jadeja » Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:28 am
Observe the tense in the first part of the sentence. Since its present tense, we should maintain the parallelism and use the same tense. So A and B are ruled out.

We also need to maintain "X rather than Y" parallelism. In D, "to retire" and "facing" are not parallel. So D out.

Between C and E. I find "elected to retire" in E better.

So pick E.
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by sumanr84 » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:29 am
To eliminate C, use a take-away ( from Sahil's note I guess )

HAVE + VERBed + ING contruction is always wrong.

example - "...have retired hoping...." --Wrong

On a similar note,

POSSESSIVE + ING construction is always wrong.

example - "...teacher's requiring..." -- Wrong
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by tpr-becky » Mon Jun 21, 2010 12:49 pm
need present tense "have elected" becuase the study "has found" therefore A and B our out.

NOw with instead of /rather than you need the two things to be parallel - elected is not parallel with facing therefore E is the answer.
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by martin.jonson007 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:20 am
IMO E

still wud like 2 knw more comments on D
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by ramsharma » Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:57 am
martin.jonson007 wrote:IMO E

still wud like 2 knw more comments on D
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only parallel construction is not there in D. Read Hardik explanation.
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by martin.jonson007 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 5:04 am
ramsharma wrote:
martin.jonson007 wrote:IMO E

still wud like 2 knw more comments on D
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only parallel construction is not there in D. Read Hardik explanation.

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by real2008 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:28 am
hardik.jadeja wrote:Observe the tense in the first part of the sentence. Since its present tense, we should maintain the parallelism and use the same tense. So A and B are ruled out.

We also need to maintain "X rather than Y" parallelism. In D, "to retire" and "facing" are not parallel. So D out.

Between C and E. I find "elected to retire" in E better.

So pick E.
@ hardik.jadeja

what if an option is available as follows:

'elected to retire early rather than face'. Will it then be treated a correct choice?
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by ssuarezo » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:38 am
real2008 wrote: @ hardik.jadeja

what if an option is available as follows:

'elected to retire early rather than face'. Will it then be treated a correct choice?
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IMHO, in the recent past years, requires present perfect, so if u have elected ... it wont be the answer
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by hardik.jadeja » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:00 pm
real2008 wrote: @ hardik.jadeja

what if an option is available as follows:

'elected to retire early rather than face'. Will it then be treated a correct choice?
ssuarezo wrote: Real,
IMHO, in the recent past years, requires present perfect, so if u have elected ... it wont be the answer
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I agree with ssuarezo on this one. Read the sentence.

"A recent study has found that within the past few years.."

"within the past few years" requires that we use present perfect tense.

Hope that helps..
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