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by thegmatbeater » Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:41 pm
Popular child psychologists have advocated that parents discipline male children similarly to the fashion in which they discipline daughters.

a)......
b) in the same manner that they would use with
c) like they would handle
d) as they discipline
e) as they would
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by Aldiablo » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:41 am
IMO D.
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by Vignesh.4384 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:37 am
IMO E.

option D changes the meaning.
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by BlueRain » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:45 am
IMO E. OA?
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by wilderness » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:07 am
IMHO D

E is missing the parallelism point. D slightly modifies the meaning but is correct grammatically. "as they would daughters" does not seems to be something complete.
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by ricky » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:58 am
IMO D
What is OA?
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by raunekk » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:45 pm
can we have the OA pls..

I feel both E and D are wrong...
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by ildude02 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:59 pm
D is my pick.
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by reachac » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:18 pm
IMO D
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by thegmatbeater » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:36 pm
OA is E. How does D change the meaning?
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by NSNguyen » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:12 am
i think D is better than E

- parallel tense ( discipline ...discipline)
- as for comparing verb
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by Vignesh.4384 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:09 am
HI thegmatbeater,

Popular child psychologists have advocated that parents discipline male children as they discipline daughters.

This means that parents descipline their male children at the same time they didcipline their daughters.

This is not what the sentence intends to convey. Hence D is wrong
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by augusto » Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:07 am
Hi all,

Can anyone explain why in this sentence the precedent of "they" is parents and not psychologist?

Thanks a lot!
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by logitech » Mon Dec 01, 2008 12:45 am
Vignesh.4384 wrote:HI thegmatbeater,

Popular child psychologists have advocated that parents discipline male children as they discipline daughters.

This means that parents descipline their male children at the same time they didcipline their daughters.

This is not what the sentence intends to convey. Hence D is wrong
I agree with you. As is used as "WHILE" in option D.

And WILL implies certainty. Parents don't need to have daughters. So we should choose the 'subjunctive' form and go with would.

It is a killer question for those who are blindly jumping for AS/LIKE and parallelism traps.
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by iamcste » Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:15 am
augusto wrote:Hi all,

Can anyone explain why in this sentence the precedent of "they" is parents and not psychologist?

Thanks a lot!

"Parents" is near to " they" in comparison to "psychologist"

As you see, its repeated in all options. so, you consider it right.
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