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The present-day election system

by paes » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:24 am
The present-day election system, with its reliance on PAC money and sound bites, may ensure that the candidacy of a non-politician unskilled in image-making and unconnected to established sources of campaign funding will be unsuccessful, and even discourages some of the office-holders with potential talent like teachers and artists from seeking office at all.

(A) even discourages some of the office-holders with potential talent like

(B) discourages even some of such potentially talented office-holders as

(C) even discourages some potentially talented office-holders as

(D) may even discourage some of the office-holders with potential talent like

(E) may even discourage some potentially talented office-holders such as

[spoiler]OA B or E
How to select one over other, please explain.
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by hardik.jadeja » Sat Jun 26, 2010 4:37 am
I pick E.

In the last part of the sentence, we are providing examples, so we need such as. A and D ruled out.

And before the underlined part of the sentence acts as a parallel connector. So the correct option needs to be parallel with the boldfaced part shown below.

The present-day election system, with its reliance on PAC money and sound bites, may ensure that the candidacy of a non-politician unskilled in image-making and unconnected to established sources of campaign funding will be unsuccessful, and may even discourage some potentially talented office-holders such as teachers and artists from seeking office at all.

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by paes » Sat Jun 26, 2010 7:59 am
OA is E

I selected B over E because

1.
B also has the 'such as' , E also has 'such as '

2.
E has

'may encourage' -> the may word is not given in original sentence, so it looks like to change the meaning of the sentence.

coming on parallelism issue, as you said

B is also parallel
The present-day election system, <> may ensure <> and discourages <>
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by martin.jonson007 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:27 am
I believe that

there cud be words b/w SUCH and THAT

BUT

SUCH and AS should be together....! there shudn't be words b/w them....!
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by paes » Sat Jun 26, 2010 8:43 am
martin.jonson007 wrote:I believe that

there cud be words b/w SUCH and THAT

BUT

SUCH and AS should be together....! there shudn't be words b/w them....!
Not true.
At such times as Christmas and Easter, many people take holidays. [ correct ]

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https://www.britishcouncil.org/learnengl ... r-such.htm
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by sumanr84 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:00 am
paes wrote:The present-day election system, with its reliance on PAC money and sound bites, may ensure that the candidacy of a non-politician unskilled in image-making and unconnected to established sources of campaign funding will be unsuccessful, and even discourages some of the office-holders with potential talent like teachers and artists from seeking office at all.

(A) even discourages some of the office-holders with potential talent like

(B) discourages even some of such potentially talented office-holders as

(C) even discourages some potentially talented office-holders as

(D) may even discourage some of the office-holders with potential talent like

(E) may even discourage some potentially talented office-holders such as
||ism is present in E with repetition of word MAY.

The present-day election system, ......, may ensure that + modifier, and may even........
We need MAY to keep the intended meaning.
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by Yossarian » Sat Jun 26, 2010 6:15 pm
paes wrote:The present-day election system, with its reliance on PAC money and sound bites, may ensure that the candidacy of a non-politician unskilled in image-making and unconnected to established sources of campaign funding will be unsuccessful, and even discourages some of the office-holders with potential talent like teachers and artists from seeking office at all.

(A) even discourages some of the office-holders with potential talent like

(B) discourages even some of such potentially talented office-holders as

(C) even discourages some potentially talented office-holders as

(D) may even discourage some of the office-holders with potential talent like

(E) may even discourage some potentially talented office-holders such as

[spoiler]OA B or E
How to select one over other, please explain.
Source : Princeton

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1) Parallelism helps get rid of A, B and C ... as they dont have 'may' which is present in the first part of the original sentence..
2) For quoting examples use 'Such As' instead of LIKE so eliminate D.
3) So E is the correct answer?
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