18. One legacy of Madison Avenue’s recent campaign to appeal to people fifty years old and over is the realization that as a person ages, their concerns change as well.
(A) the realization that as a person ages, their
(B) the realization that as people age, their
(C) to realize that when a person ages, his or her
(D) to realize that when people age, their
(E) realizing that as people age, their
imo- d...can someone explain why d is incorrect
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poseidon344 wrote:18. One legacy of Madison Avenue’s recent campaign to appeal to people fifty years old and over is the realization that as a person ages, their concerns change as well.
(A) the realization that as a person ages, their
(B) the realization that as people age, their
(C) to realize that when a person ages, his or her
(D) to realize that when people age, their - aging is a gradual process.
(E) realizing that as people age, their
imo- d...can someone explain why d is incorrect
I can point out following problems:
1. as vs when: aging is a gradual process. 'as people age, their concerns change as well' is correct. Eliminates C and D.
2. Subject-verb agreement. Eliminate A.
I am confused between B and E. Going for B because it sounds better to me, but I don't have any explanation for it.
IMO B.
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poseidon344 wrote:18. One legacy of Madison Avenue’s recent campaign to appeal to people fifty years old and over is the realization that as a person ages, their concerns change as well.
(A) the realization that as a person ages, their
(B) the realization that as people age, their
(C) to realize that when a person ages, his or her
(D) to realize that when people age, their
(E) realizing that as people age, their
imo- d...can someone explain why d is incorrect
Choices A and C can be eliminated very easily due to Pronoun Incongruity. A person...their does not make any sesnse.
For ruling out D the logic has been provided very aptly.
Between B and E, B is certainly a better choice. As E doesn't follow Parallelism. Realizing is a gerund, no other part of the non-underlined segment uses a gerund.
Going by the sounding logic, you many goof-up with the questions
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karmayogi wrote:poseidon344 wrote:as vs when: aging is a gradual process. 'as people age, their concerns change as well' is correct. Eliminates C and D.can u explore a bit karamyogi....how and when to use "when" vs"as"
pls elaborate with some other example. and tell me the source wfrom wehre u read. it would be intresting to know this thing
I think that they test here the following rule:umaa wrote:VodkaBoy,
Can you explain me how? I really don't know how they become parallel
When you use "BE" to equate or compare two elements, the elements MUST be parallel:
- Vanilla IS more popular than chocolate;
- Seeing IS believing.
In our case:
- "One legacy ... IS the realization ... " - Good paralellism: noun=noun
- "One legacy ... IS to realize ... " - Bad paralellism noun is compared to infinitive.
I hope this will help
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