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Causes of crime

by komal » Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:31 am
None of the attempts to specify the causes of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed have.

(A) have

(8) has

(C) shall

(D) do

(E) could

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by fibbonnaci » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:29 am
the technique behind getting this problem right involves knowing the concept of Ellipsis.

The omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction is known as Ellipsis
For eg: I've been to Paris, but they haven't.

This example when expanded actually means, I have been to paris but they have not been to paris.
Here 'Been to paris' is implied
Now lets deal with our question. the causes of crime explains why most people do not commit crimes conversely why so many of those ('those' refers to people here) not so exposed --- what should we fill in.
why most people do not and why most people not exposed do.

Notice the words in red. only when you have donot- do, the sentence maintains parallelism.

have, has, shall and could do not maintain this parallelism. Hence they can be eliminated at the first shot itself, even without giving them much thought.

Hope this helps!

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by money9111 » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:55 am
I thought Ellipsis were (...), are you saying that Ellipsis can be implied?
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by bhumika.k.shah » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:03 am
Simple Parallelism

why most of the people exposed do not commit crimes....why so many of those not so exposed do
komal wrote:None of the attempts to specify the causes of crime explains why most of the people exposed to the alleged causes do not commit crimes and, conversely, why so many of those not so exposed have.

(A) have

(8) has

(C) shall

(D) do

(E) could

OA D

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by akahuja143 » Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:16 am
yep it is simple parallelism. do.

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by mgmt_gmat » Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:57 am
this is a parallelism

Do is used here because ...plural form....

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by gmatmachoman » Thu Feb 11, 2010 4:00 am
Guys there is a concept called exclusively called "ellipsis" which is closely connected to parallelism.

Plz refer Kaplan for further reference. If no, i culd post the text if there is no copyrights violation!!

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by money9111 » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:07 pm
if you can't post it, can you at least explain it? i was under a different impression. thanks
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