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by syflysun » Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:15 am
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.
(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

1>Of course, we need "for" before clustered suburban houses. Eliminate A.
How you guys select among the rest? Which one is better? Why the others are wrong?
a>urban apartment houses including child-care facilities
b>urban apartment houses that included child-care facilities
c>urban apartment houses with child-care facilities
d>urban apartment houses to include child-care facilities

2>for the use of "including", do we usually need to put a comma before including?
3>with sth. included incorrect idiom?

OA - D Thank you.
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by capnx » Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:55 am
Out of those choices, only D makes the best parralel structure:

D: called for houses that... and for houses with
"that" and "with" can both introduce noun phrases, so this parallel structure is allowed.

all the other choices are not parallel.

B: for houses THAT included... and for houses TO include...
not parallel structure

C: for houses WITH... and for houses TO...
not parallel

E: for houses TO... and for houses WITH
same as C

"including" is a present participle used as a phrase to modify something.
I strongly recommend you read this topic:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/ing-modifier ... 38943.html
It really helped me to understand how to use "comma + verb-ing" as modifiers.

"with A included" is correct depending on the manner in which the phrase is used.
Last edited by capnx on Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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by syflysun » Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:38 pm
capnx wrote:Out of those choices, only D makes the best parralel structure:

D: called for houses that... and for houses with
"that" and "with" can both introduce clauses, so this parallel structure is allowed.

all the other choices are not parallel.

"with A included" is correct depending on the manner in which the phrase is used.
Can "with" followed by a clauses? I dont think so?

Thank you so much, capnx
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by capnx » Sun Aug 16, 2009 6:06 pm
my appologies. not clauses, but noun phrases
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by syflysun » Wed Aug 19, 2009 5:53 am
capnx wrote:Out of those choices, only D makes the best parralel structure:

D: called for houses that... and for houses with
"that" and "with" can both introduce noun phrases, so this parallel structure is allowed.

all the other choices are not parallel.
so other parallelism in this example not allowed? Feel strange for this parallel structure. Could any one explain more? Thank you.
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