Verbal review 2 : SC : Q 39

[spetznaz]

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.

(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(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
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face

My doubt : Option E does not add "to" before face, then how is parallelism maintained ? Or is "to" understood ? Why is option C wrong ?

OA:E

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[EducationAisle]

Yes, to is indeed implied in E.

As for C, elect to do something is idiomatically correct; elect doing something is not.

When two verbs (or verb forms) appear together (in this case elect and do), the first verb determines whether the second verb will be in the gerund form (-ing form of the verb) or in the infinitive form (to + the basic form of the verb).

p.s. Our book SC Nirvana discusses this topic of two verb forms appearing together in significant detail. If you can PM you email, I can send you the corresponding section.