Charlotte Perkins

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Charlotte Perkins

by ektamatta » Thu Jun 05, 2008 2:20 pm
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
OA is D
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by ksh » Fri Jun 06, 2008 3:13 am
Its a parallelism ques
'called for'... 'that included'

D is the right answer

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by s_raizada » Fri Jun 06, 2008 7:28 am
A - ambigous. Is first 'and' joining 'apartment
houses and subarban houses' or is it joining 'child care facilites and subarban houses'. Therefore 'for' must be repeated after and to make it clear
B, C, E - parallelism error
D - correct parallelism - Modified noun and modified noun

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