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by anshulagarwal12 » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:31 am
A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.

(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing

Here, I was able to select D using the tense but how parallelism (X rather than Y) is implemented here?
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by Birottam Dutta » Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:16 am
First of all, in D rather than is replaced by instead of.

And D is correct in parallelism as well because retiring... facing...rising.

It has to be have elected and not had elected because the activity is centered around the past few years, that is from a few years back to present.

So, it will be have.

Hence D!
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