Sentence Correction

prac wrote:The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final try outs are held for athletes representing the US in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
A.) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
B.) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
C.) are geared to enhance athletes performance and their preparation ( not parellel)
D.) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
E.) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them ( correct answer?)

I was left with two option in last D and E and finally choose E because I thought enhancing and preparing are parallel. Is it correct?

I am not very sure why D is wrong but I felt D is wrong that y chose the other answer. Experts please explain.

sallywoo wrote:i'm not sure, but i think i read somewhere in manhattan gmat about abstract nouns and concrete nouns and that they can't be made parallel. maybe that's why 'D' is wrong. can any experts provide their input?

prac wrote:The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final try outs are held for athletes representing the US in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
A.) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
B.) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
C.) are geared to enhance athletes performance and their preparation
D.) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
E.) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them

I was left with two option in last D and E and finally choose E because I thought enhancing and preparing are parallel. Is it correct?

I am not very sure why D is wrong but I felt D is wrong that y chose the other answer. Experts please explain.

prac wrote:The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final try outs are held for athletes representing the US in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
A.) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
B.) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
C.) are geared to enhance athletes performance and their preparation (It has to be "and to prepare them(athletes)
D.) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
E.) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them

IMO:E

GmatKiss wrote:

prac wrote:The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final try outs are held for athletes representing the US in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
A.) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
B.) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
C.) are geared to enhance athletes performance and their preparation (It has to be "and to prepare them(athletes)
D.) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
E.) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them

IMO:E

Thanks for the reply. However I do not agree with you about the error in the answer C). I think that the parallelism is well respectd ... are geared to enhance athletes' performance and their preparation

The possessive their correctly refers to the possessive noun athlets'.

The question is whether a program can enhance the preparation ... I think it can, but I am not sure.

So why C) is wrong?

force5 wrote:Hello Guys

PRAC - first off - please underline the SC when ever you post, This is how you should do it if you don't know yet....

highlight the portion that you want to underline by clicking and dragging your mouse pointer. then you can see an underlined U (3rd button from the left) on the formatting panel (above the box in which you are typing). Press this button once to underline. You will not see the text underlined text immediately in the box until you press the preview button.

Coming back to the question. I would request everyone to kindly check the post before submitting. these posts are read by a lot of aspiring students and small mistakes can lead to a huge change in meaning.

As done by MONGE1980- choice C doesn't say Athletes' performance. (which is a plural possessive)
the original post says athletes performance..... which is incorrect because of 2 consecutive nouns modifying each other and not being parallel to the other half of the sentence.


As others have mentioned E is the best choice due to parallelism. I think everyone understood the rest.