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by pankajjindal » Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:06 am
A delegation of 60 farmers called on the chief minister so as to plead for revival of the benefit scheme together with the revised compensation package offered by the government and the chief minister has very graciously conceded their request
A. chief minister so as to plead for revival of the benefit scheme together with the revised compensation package offered by the government and
B. chief minister and pleaded for revival of the benefit scheme together with the revised compensation package offered by the government but
C. chief minister and were pleading towards revival of the benefit scheme as well as the revised compensation package offered by the government and
D. chief minister and pleaded for revival of the benefit scheme together with the revised compensation package offered by the government and
E. chief minister to plead for revival of the benefit scheme together with the revised compensation package offered by the government but
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Fri Apr 05, 2013 4:31 am
Proper parallelism will have the sentence read "farmers called .... and pleaded" leaving only B and D.

B should then be eliminated because of the 'but' at the end. There is no reason to show contrast.
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by aditya8062 » Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:24 am
i find this sentence very awkward . "a delegation" is a singular subject .the later part of the sentence uses "their" .this is not correct !!

also i don't find any reason as why we need "called ....and pleaded .." as parallel .these are not 2 distinct things of equal importance so why parallelism is required ?

what is the source of this question ?

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by Jim@StratusPrep » Fri Apr 05, 2013 5:28 am
I agree that there are issues. This is likely from a non-reputable source...
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by lunarpower » Sat Apr 06, 2013 10:22 pm
i don't know where you got this problem, but, i beg you, please do not ever look at that source, ever again, for any reason at all.

stick to official problems, folks!
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Mon Apr 08, 2013 8:52 am
Especially on the verbal side...
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