Sentence Correction

The herbicide Oryzalin was still being produced in 1979, three years after the wives of workers producing the chemical in Rensselaer, New York, were found to have borne children with heart defects or miscarriages, and none of their pregnancies was normal.

(A) to have borne children with heart defects or miscarriages, and none of their pregnancies was
(B) to have had children born with heart defects or miscarriages, and none of the pregnancies was
(C) either to have had children with heart defects or miscarriages, without any of their pregnancies being
(D) either to have had miscarriages or to have borne children with heart defects; none of the pregnancies was
(E) either to have had miscarriages or children born with heart defects, without any of their pregnancies being

OA: D

plz underline the portion for more clarity its confusing

You can feel that the sentence requires either X or Y structure.

If we use either X or Y structure, then both X and Y need to be parallel. Only D maintains the parallelism by using "to have had miscarriages" and "to have borne children with heart defects".

Pick D.

can anybody comment whether (D) either to have had miscarriages or to have borne children with heart defects; none of the pregnancies was is phrased correctly or it should have been (D) either to have had miscarriages or to have children borne with heart defects; none of the pregnancies was

real2008 wrote:can anybody comment whether (D) either to have had miscarriages or to have borne children with heart defects; none of the pregnancies was is phrased correctly or it should have been (D) either to have had miscarriages or to have children borne with heart defects; none of the pregnancies was

I think the verb here is "have borne". "Children" is not part of the verb. I think you are confused between the usage of "borne" and "born". "Borne" is past tense of "bear".

Refer this link: https://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/borne.html

In A and B, it is been illogically suggested that children had miscarriages too.
In C and E, parallelism is violated. Correct form: "to have either X or Y" or "either to have X or to have Y". Furthermore, C illogically suggests that children also had miscarriages.
D maintains parallelism through "either to have X or to have Y" and meaning is also clear. Hence, D is the answer.