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putting vs put?

by dextar » Thu May 29, 2008 9:21 am
When dramatic news headlines cause children to become anxios , psychologists advise parents
to discuss the disturbing events with them, putting the news coverage into perspective, avoid overreacting,
and to turn to a counselor or clergy member if a child shows sign of a long lasting distress.


1)

2) putting the news coverage into perspective, to avoid

3) putting the news coverage into perspective, avoiding

4)put the news coverage into perspective, avoiding

5) put the news coverage into perspective, to avoid
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by netigen » Thu May 29, 2008 10:10 am
B for parallelism

to discuss .... to avoid ... and to turn

Also E is wrong because we need the gerund form of put to act as modifier
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by chidcguy » Thu May 29, 2008 10:45 am
What is the gerund form of put? Is the gerund form of a word equal to to present participle?

If gerund is equal to the present participle the participle of put is put and E will be the correct answer.
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by 3gmater » Thu May 29, 2008 2:49 pm
B is correct.....as described by Netizen.

The underlined portion: putting the news coverage into perspective, is an adverbial modifier that describes how the parents should discuss the issues with their kids.

we need a "to" before avoid to ensure that the parallelism rule is followed.
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by chidcguy » Thu May 29, 2008 4:42 pm
I understand what netigen is saying.

How ever, I am trying to figure out if gerund is equal to present participle of a word. If it is the present participle of put is put and not putting.

Also, if it is a gerund, it has to be the noun. Is putting a noun here? As you said its not.

Can the OP tell the source and the OA?

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by blue44 » Thu May 29, 2008 7:12 pm
I would agree with Netizen, B is the right answer, seems to be a typical parallelism trap, put/putting is just there to confuse and divert attention!
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by dextar » Fri May 30, 2008 2:57 am
Yes the OA is B

I'm still confused between B and E. Y put is wrong here?

The source is from Princeton Online GMAT
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by astrologer » Fri May 30, 2008 4:36 am
'put' is wrong because "putting the news coverage into perspective" is a modifier and not an another event of the sentence as "to discuss the disturbing events .. " and "to turn to a counselor or clergy .. " are.
So no constriction to use the 'to' form for the sake of parallelism.
Rather because of being a modifier, it requires the 'ing' form because of 'put' being obviously not gramatically fit to work as a modifier.
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by rattanas » Fri May 30, 2008 6:48 am
B is the right answer...Its a parellelism thing..... to discuss,to avoid,to turn....are all infinitve nouns...if u place "to" with a verb;it becomes noun..."avoid" is verb but "to avoid" is noun.. now we need noun so as to maintain parallelism in the list....put can be changed in noun with either "to put" as infinitive noun or as gerund ..gerund is nothing but placing -ing at the end of verb to change it into noun..so putting is noun...out of putting and "to put" alongwith maintaining "to avoid"..we have only choice "B"
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by chidcguy » Fri May 30, 2008 11:12 am
Thanks for confirming that putting is a noun.
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