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by reply2spg » Wed Sep 22, 2010 5:21 pm
Source - Platinum Gmat

Under the provisions of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States, the Federal government cannot detain an American citizen indefinitely without cause and is required either to bring charges against the individual being held, in which case he is entitled to a lawyer, or that the government must release him.

A) that the government must release him
B) release him
C) to proceed in releasing him
D) the government must release him
E) they must release him
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by pesfunk » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:10 pm
Answer D ?
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by anantbhatia » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:00 am
Is it [spoiler](B)[/spoiler]?
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by uwhusky » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:53 am
Parallelism calls for C, infinitive follows with another infinitive.

In order for B to be correct, it would have to be written as:

either charge the individual being held...

or release him.

It makes no sense to complicate the first part of the either/or construction, then accept the simplified version for the 2nd part. Logically it should be parallel, and I think GMAT would prefer parallelism as well.
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by GMATGuruNY » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:45 am
reply2spg wrote:Source - Platinum Gmat

Under the provisions of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States, the Federal government cannot detain an American citizen indefinitely without cause and is required either to bring charges against the individual being held, in which case he is entitled to a lawyer, or that the government must release him.

A) that the government must release him
B) release him
C) to proceed in releasing him
D) the government must release him
E) they must release him
I received a PM asking me to comment. I don't see a correct answer in this SC.

In the idiom either X or Y, X and Y must be perfectly parallel:

...required either to bring...or to + verb....

The to cannot be implied; it must be stated explicity in order to maintain parallelism.

But in C, the only answer choice that gives us this parallel structure, to proceed in releasing him is not idiomatic.

Hence I don't see any answer choice that would be the OA on the actual GMAT.
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by reply2spg » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:46 am
The OA is B

why C is not idiomatic, then what is correct idiom?
GMATGuruNY wrote:
reply2spg wrote:Source - Platinum Gmat

Under the provisions of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States, the Federal government cannot detain an American citizen indefinitely without cause and is required either to bring charges against the individual being held, in which case he is entitled to a lawyer, or that the government must release him.

A) that the government must release him
B) release him
C) to proceed in releasing him
D) the government must release him
E) they must release him
I received a PM asking me to comment. I don't see a correct answer in this SC.

In the idiom either X or Y, X and Y must be perfectly parallel:

...required either to bring...or to + verb....

The to cannot be implied; it must be stated explicity in order to maintain parallelism.

But in C, the only answer choice that gives us this parallel structure, to proceed in releasing him is not idiomatic.

Hence I don't see any answer choice that would be the OA on the actual GMAT.
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by GMATGuruNY » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:04 am
reply2spg wrote:The OA is B

why C is not idiomatic, then what is correct idiom?
Proceed in + gerund feels awkward and wordy. I think that this construction is unlikely to be in OA on the GMAT. More importantly, proceed in releasing him changes the intended meaning of the sentence. The constitution requires that the government do more than proceed; the government actually has to release the citizen.
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by reply2spg » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:08 am
I got you, thanks Guru.
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reply2spg wrote:The OA is B

why C is not idiomatic, then what is correct idiom?
Proceed in + gerund feels awkward and wordy. I think that this construction is unlikely to be in OA on the GMAT. More importantly, proceed in releasing him changes the intended meaning of the sentence. The constitution requires that the government do more than proceed; the government actually has to release the citizen.
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