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by GmatKiss » Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:05 pm
With his sub-four minute mile Bannister broke a psychological barrier, inspiring thousands of others to attempt overcoming seemingly insurmountable hurdles.

A. inspiring thousands of others to attempt overcoming
B. inspiring thousands of others to attempt to overcome
C. inspiring thousands of others to overcome
D. and inspired thousands of others to attempt to overcome
E. and inspired thousands of others to attempt overcoming

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by force5 » Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:22 pm
B is the best....

D and E are incorrect. we don't require verb parallelism here.

A is incorrect.. overcoming is not a verb.

now see choice C -

As i mentioned in the earlier post that shorter is not always better. C is grammatically correct but is changing the meaning to something else. Hence we will reject C

## please look at my earlier post or send me PM in case anyone needs clarification on this..

hence choose B
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:22 am
force5 wrote:B is the best....

D and E are incorrect. we don't require verb parallelism here.

A is incorrect.. overcoming is not a verb.

now see choice C -

As i mentioned in the earlier post that shorter is not always better. C is grammatically correct but is changing the meaning to something else. Hence we will reject C

## please look at my earlier post or send me PM in case anyone needs clarification on this..

hence choose B
Hi Force5,

I feel that to attempt to x causes redundancy.......what do u say??? and can u explain a little bit in more detail i.e why D and E are wrong?
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by saketk » Sat Sep 03, 2011 12:17 pm
HI aspirant2011,

See this link - This question was discussed in MGMAT forum. I certainly don't like this question (coz i chose the wrong option -- D :) )

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/wit ... t7166.html
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