sandalphon wrote:
Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, creating a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.
(A) creating a special nongovernment organization to take
(B) creating a special nongovernment organization that takes
(C) creating a special nongovernment organization for taking
(D) and create a special nongovernment organization for taking
(E) and create a special nongovernment organization to take
The correct choice is written below.
Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, and create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.In the above sentence,
to has been used before the verb
revamp,
institute,
create because the tag is
and. So, we can rewrite the correct sentence as follows:
Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, to institute new emergency response teams, and to create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.So, here is the question:
Why National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation?The simple answer is:
to do blah blah blah. This
to do is NOT a verb;
to do is infinitive (to+verb). The infinitive (to+verb)
can't be verb anymore. So,
revamp,
institute, and
create are NOT verbs in this sentence! The verb is
urged.
Here is the correct choice again.
Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, and create a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.In the above sentence,
to take is an infinitive. So, it
can't be verb anymore. Most importantly, we never express our
purpose/intention of an action without any verb (like
urged in this sentence) in the sentence. In the sentence,
something is done to take ''charge of computer security planning''.
egmat says:
It is clear that taking charge of computer security planning is the purpose for creating this special nongovernment organization. My question is to
egmat: this
something is done is what, actually? I mean: Which one (from the below) can be replaced with
something is done? is it:
1/
to create (infinitive) a special nongovernment organization?
or,
2/ National Academy of Sciences has
urged (not infinitive at all-this is the main verb) the nation?
I think,
to take charge of computer security planning CAN'T be the
purpose of
to create a special nongovernment organization. Because,
to create is the infinitive
itself!
So, if this is the case, my question is to my honorable expert: this
something is done is what, actually? is it:
2/ National Academy of Sciences has
urged (not infinitive at all-this is the main verb) the nation?
if yes, that means:
to take charge of computer security planning is the 4th item of the series like
to revamp,
to institute,
to create. So, this is something like
to revamp,
to institute,
to create, and to take .........! if this the case, why
,and is NOT used before the final item
to take charge of computer security planning?
Thanks__