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Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  Updated on: 31 May 2017, 00:27
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Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say they have often dived from boats into the Hudson River or swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon.

A. swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon
B. swam in its murky waters, to participate in some athletic event, like a triathlon
C. swam in its murky waters, as participants in some athletic event, such as a triathlon
D. swum in its murky waters, as participating in such an athletic event as a triathlon
E. swum in its murky waters, as participants in an athletic event, such as a triathlon
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Originally posted by macjas on 04 Jun 2012, 22:53.
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  05 Jun 2012, 02:22
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macjas wrote:
Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say they have often dived from boats into the Hudson River or swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon.

A.swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon
B.swam in its murky waters, to participate in some athletic event, like a triathlon
C.swam in its murky waters, as participants in some athletic event, such as a triathlon
D.swum in its murky waters, as participating in such an athletic event as a triathlon
E.swum in its murky waters, as participants in an athletic event, such as a triathlon

"Such As" is used to give examples hence A & B can be rejected
Between 'Swam" and "Swum", Swum matches the tense of non-underlined part.. hence C can be rejected
between D & E E is correct as it uses "Such As" in D use of "as s triathlon" is awkward
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  16 Apr 2015, 14:34
macjas wrote:
Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say they have often dived from boats into the Hudson River or swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon.

A.swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon
B.swam in its murky waters, to participate in some athletic event, like a triathlon
C.swam in its murky waters, as participants in some athletic event, such as a triathlon
D.swum in its murky waters, as participating in such an athletic event as a triathlon
E.swum in its murky waters, as participants in an athletic event, such as a triathlon




swim-swam-swum

A, B, and C - eliminated on the following account.
to give examples - such as needs to be used, thus D is eliminated.
In E - as participants clearly states that people, in the role of participants, swam and dived.
Hence answer choice E is correct.
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  30 Apr 2015, 01:54
Swum must be preceded by has,have,had and used in present perfect tense or past perfect tense.

So not sure how E can be correct.
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  30 Apr 2015, 09:39
A.swam in its murky waters, participating in some athletic event, like a triathlon
B.swam in its murky waters, to participate in some athletic event, like a triathlon
C.swam in its murky waters, as participants in some athletic event, such as a triathlon
D.swum in its murky waters, as participating in such an athletic event as a triathlon
E.swum in its murky waters, as participants in an athletic event, such as a triathlon

A-C goes away because of swam.

Down to D and E.

I am not sure if it's an idiom or what it is, but I found it better that "they, as participants" felt more parallell.
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  30 May 2017, 23:59
Although i got it wrong.
On later reading i noticed my mistake .
Option E correctly uses past participle swum to make it parallel.
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  31 May 2017, 10:49
A, B, C are out since they use swam.
D is out because "as participating in" is unidiomatic
E wins
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  20 May 2022, 23:44
Option E states “as participants in an athletic event, such as a triathlon”

My inquiry is shouldn't “event” be plural？ Since “such as” has been placed. Or the precedent word does not need to be plural.

This point confused me. Need help. Thank you very much.
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Re: Many New Yorkers are horrified when they hear people say [#permalink] New post  22 May 2022, 04:23
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Option E states “as participants in an athletic event, such as a triathlon”

My inquiry is shouldn't “event” be plural？ Since “such as” has been placed. Or the precedent word does not need to be plural.

This point confused me. Need help. Thank you very much.


Hello cjhyou700,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, there is no such rule that examples can only be given for plural nouns.

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