to do vs for doing

[tanviet]

by showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sovell argues that American convervatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.

a,to be in sympathy with

b, to sympathize with

c, for sympathizing with

d,that they should sympathize with

e, that they should have sympathy for



what is correct and explain, . this question is from plusbook, from a newly retired test.

[gmat740]

IMO B


to sympathize with

correct idiom

although I am confused with C also

[karmayogi]

IMO B

Idiomatic and pithy. "to be in sympathy" is unidiomatic. "they" in D and E is ambiguous.

In GMAT, infinitive form is always preferred over "-ing" form. Hence, B is preferred over C, but not sure if there is any grammatical error in C.

[tanviet]

I agree with you and choose B. However, OA is C and this make me confused. any idea ?

[cramya]

Grounds for is the correct idiom and not grounds to

Hence C may be the OA

[gmat740]

Grounds for is the correct idiom and not grounds to

Hence C may be the OA

Hello Cramya,

In the question, i think we need to correct the underline part(although the underline part is not mention in the original question) but looking at the options simple gives an idea about the underline part

As far as I know, Grounds to may be incorrect but this is not the underlined part and in no way Option C is going to convert the Idiom Grounds for v/s ground to

Please correct me if I am wrong

Karan

[scoobydooby]

the choices all start with to/for/that. the non underlined portion ends with ground. so the question is "ground to" or "ground for"

with cramya on "ground for".

[gmat740]

can we have the OA now?

[kapsii]

Karan, As mentioned earlier by duongthang, the OA is C.

As for your question in an earlier post, when correcting the underlined portion of the sentence, you cannot ignore the rest of the sentence, because mostly the rest of the sentence might carry the noun or a list to check for parallelism and other things that you generally need to correct.

I think of the objective to be more like find the replacement for the underlined part which makes the whole sentence look grammatically better than the original sentence (of course with out changing its meaning).

and also, "grounds for" seems less awkward than "grounds to"...