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by bharti.2010 » Tue Dec 13, 2011 10:02 am
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The best female students of science are increasingly choosing medical school over nursing school, while nursing is still largely viewed as a profession for females; the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors.

A. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors
B. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are that there are not enough nurses and there are an increasing number of female doctors
C. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena is a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors
D. these two simultaneous phenomena are resulting in a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors
E. these two simultaneous phenomena, the result of which is a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors

Please help me with this question. IMO D is correct because resulting is parallel to increasing.
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by mandarchougule » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:14 am
A. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors - subject verb disagreement
B. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are that there are not enough nurses and there are an increasing number of female doctors - subject verb disagreement
C. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena is a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors - looks good, look at parallelism between a shortage.. and an increasing numb...
D. these two simultaneous phenomena are resulting in a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors - present continuous tense does not hold well here. dont compare resulting and increasing as first is verb and second is adjective
E. these two simultaneous phenomena, the result of which is a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors - verbose

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by tuanquang269 » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:39 am
IMO C. C is better than E, not wordy and awkward.

Choice D, resulting is not the same item with increasing. So, parallelism is broken.
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by GMATGuruNY » Thu Dec 15, 2011 4:24 am
bharti.2010 wrote:Source: kaptest

The best female students of science are increasingly choosing medical school over nursing school, while nursing is still largely viewed as a profession for females; the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors.

A. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors
B. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena are that there are not enough nurses and there are an increasing number of female doctors
C. the result of these two simultaneous phenomena is a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors
D. these two simultaneous phenomena are resulting in a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors
E. these two simultaneous phenomena, the result of which is a shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors

Please help me with this question. IMO D is correct because resulting is parallel to increasing.
In A and B, are (plural) does not agree with the result (singular). Eliminate A and B.

In E, a complete sentence does not follow the semi-colon. A semi-colon must connect two complete sentences; it must be possible to replace a semi-colon with a period. Eliminate E.

Whereas the result (in the original sentence) implies the OUTCOME of a process, are resulting (in D) suggests a process that is ONGOING. Since D changes the intended meaning, eliminate D.

The correct answer is C.
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by GmatKiss » Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:25 am
IMO: C
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by bharti.2010 » Fri Dec 16, 2011 2:33 pm
Thanks for the explanations. Now I got why C is correct and what flaws are there in other options.

But still I have a doubt in parallelism: shortage of nurses and an increasing number of female doctors.
Shouldn't it be: shortage of nurses and an increase in number of female doctors.
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