Parallelism question please help...

[Pooja Bhula]

Sentence:
Essentially, a drama of this genre is a dialogue, the interlocutors are the good and the evil or rather the doers evil and the defender of good

A. Essentially, a drama of this genre is a dialogue, the interlocutors are the good and the evil, or rather the doers evil and the defender of good.


B. Essentially, a drama of this genre is similar to a dialogue, the interlocutors being the good and the evil, or rather the doer of evil and the defenders of good.

C. Essentially, a drama of this genre is a dialogue, the interlocutors being the good and the evil, or rather the doer evil and the defender of good.

D. A drama of this genre is essentially a dialogue, the interlocutors are the good and the evil or the doer of evil and the defender of good.

E. A drama of this genre is a dialogue in essence, the interlocutors being the good, evil or rather the doer of evil, defender of good

[adamsmith2009]

IMO [/spoiler]D[spoiler]

A - 'doers evil' doesn't make sense.
B, C & E - use 'being'

That leaves D which is the best choice among the 5.

[Pooja Bhula]

Sentence:
Essentially, a drama of this genre is a dialogue, the interlocutors are the good and the evil, or rather the doers evil and the defender of good

A. Essentially, a drama of this genre is a dialogue, the interlocutors are the good and the evil, or rather the doers evil and the defender of good.


B. Essentially, a drama of this genre is similar to a dialogue, the interlocutors being the good and the evil, or rather the doer of evil and the defenders good.

C. Essentially, a drama of this genre is a dialogue, the interlocutors being the good and the evil, or rather the doer of evil and the defender of good.

D. A drama of this genre is essentially a dialogue, the interlocutors are the good and the evil or the doer of evil and the defender of good.

E. A drama of this genre is a dialogue in essence, the interlocutors being the good, evil or rather the doer of evil, defender of good



Hi sorry I had missed out a word in option B and C, so please can you read it again and tell me your answer....

Even I had chosen D, but the correct answer is C. The explanation given here is ' Apart from the word doers that breaks parallel construction rule, the sentence is grammatically correct though slightly longwinded. Only option C corrects both these flaws. Hence C.

So I still want to figure out how come its right...

[2010gmat]

i also chose D...only reason why C could be the answer is the placement of essentially...

experts pls help...

[Pooja Bhula]

I kinda agree wid ur reasoning...but even i think its time we get an expert opinion...hope they solve this for us

[capnx]

"being" doesn't make a choice automatically wrong. you should only eliminate "being" when a better and correct choice is present.

A is not parallel b/c "the doer [of] evil and the defender of good"

B is not grammatically wrong, but "similar" changes the meaning

C's "being" may be problematic, but don't eliminate it yet.

D's second half is a little confusing with the conjunctions:
you can read it this way: the interlocutors are (the good and the evil) or (the doer of evil and the defender of good.)
or you can also interpret it this way: the interlocutors are (the good and the evil or the doer of evil) and (the defender of good.)
you can argue that nobody would ever read it the second way, but because grammatically it can be done, the structure causes ambiguity.

E "essence" and "good, evil" changes the meaning.

So go back to C. What's wrong with it? other than "being" is a little awkward nothing else. So out of all 5, C is the lesser evil. Only eliminate "being" when another choice is clearly the winner.

[2010gmat]

i think C is right...placement of essentially is the reason...D changes the meaning...