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A: an all-day White House scientific conference on new findings that indicatesIn April 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific
conference on new findings that indicates a child's acquiring language thinking, and
emotional skills as an active process that may be largely completed before age three.
A. that indicates a child's acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
B. that are indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
C. to indicate that when a child acquires language, thinking, and emotional skills,
that it is
D. indicating that a child's acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
E. indicative of a child's acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills as
There seems to be three items in the list. But parallelism is not taken into account in any of the answer choices. Language, thinking (thoughts ?) and emotional skills. Please explain how the thinking is acceptable. Are gerunds/nouns interchangeable in the items of a list ?.GMATGuruNY wrote:A: an all-day White House scientific conference on new findings that indicatesIn April 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific
conference on new findings that indicates a child's acquiring language thinking, and
emotional skills as an active process that may be largely completed before age three.
A. that indicates a child's acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
B. that are indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
C. to indicate that when a child acquires language, thinking, and emotional skills,
that it is
D. indicating that a child's acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
E. indicative of a child's acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills as
Here, that indicates (that + singular verb) seems to refer to conference (the nearest preceding singular noun), implying that an all-day White House scientific CONFERENCE indicates how a child acquires language.
Not the intended meaning.
Eliminate A.
B: findings that are indicative of a child
Not the intended meaning: the findings are not indicative of a CHILD.
Rather, the findings indicate how a child ACQUIRES LANGUAGE.
Eliminate B.
In C, it lacks a clear antecedent.
Eliminate C.
Generally, an as-clause must refer to an ACTION.
To illustrate:
John WORKS as a doctor.
Mary SANG as John danced.
E: a child's acquisition...as an active process
Here, the as-clause in red cannot serve to modify a NOUN such as acquisition.
Eliminate E.
The correct answer is D.
A conjunction such as and must serve to connect PARALLEL FORMS.kc.19 wrote: There seems to be three items in the list. But parallelism is not taken into account in any of the answer choices. Language, thinking (thoughts ?) and emotional skills. Please explain how the thinking is acceptable. Are gerunds/nouns interchangeable in the items of a list ?.
I know none of the answer choice has 'thoughts' for us to discuss over, but I'm curious.
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