doubt SC A 5

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by aditya8062 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:42 pm
Interventional radiology is used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes it possible for physicians trained as radiologists to perform procedures that would otherwise have taken years of surgical training.

A radiology is used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes

B radiology, used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes

C radiology, used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, making

D radiology is used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, making

E radiology, used for procedures like angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes

my concern: what is preventing me to view option A as a kind of PARALLELISM by which we are trying to state 4 ATTRIBUTES about "Interventional radiology"

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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:14 pm
aditya8062 wrote:Interventional radiology is used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes it possible for physicians trained as radiologists to perform procedures that would otherwise have taken years of surgical training.

A radiology is used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes

B radiology, used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes

C radiology, used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, making

D radiology is used for procedures such as angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, making

E radiology, used for procedures like angiogram, enables minimally invasive surgery, reduces patient healing time, and makes

my concern: what is preventing me to view option A as a kind of PARALLELISM by which we are trying to state 4 ATTRIBUTES about "Interventional radiology"

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A: is used for procedures, enables minimally invasive surgery
Here, for procedures serves as an ADVERB modifying is used, while minimally invasive surgery serves as the DIRECT OBJECT of enables.
is used for procedures (verb + adverb) and enables minimally invasive surgery (verb + direct object) are not parallel forms.

to enable X means to make X able to do something.
In this SC, radiology enables minimally invasive surgery implies that radiology makes minimally invasive surgery ABLE to do something.
Not the intended meaning.
The intended meaning is that radiology makes minimally invasive surgery POSSIBLE.

Ignore this SC.
What is the source?
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by aditya8062 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:27 pm
Good Day Guru
the source is E gmat . the proclaimed answer is B . but i guess even B is now wrong
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