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Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these grueling competitive events, runners must be in excellent condition, have unshakable self-confidence, and, most important of all, know how to pace yourself.

(A) know how to pace yourself
(B) is knowing how to pace yourself
(C) know how to pace themselves
(D) you must pace yourself
(E) they must know how to pace themselves
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Re: Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these gruelin [#permalink] New post   28 Oct 2019, 05:19
Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these grueling competitive events, runners must be in excellent condition, have unshakable self-confidence, and, most important of all, know how to pace yourself.

the bolded part of the sentence contains all the elements that are supposed to be parallel (list of things a person llearns when they enter a marathon)


(A) know how to pace yourself
(B) is knowing how to pace yourself
(D) you must pace yourself
"yourself" is wrong when we are referring to a group of people who are entering a marathon


(C) know how to pace themselves
is the correct option!


(E) they must know how to pace themselves
they distorts the parallelism
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Re: Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these gruelin [#permalink] New post   28 Oct 2019, 05:21
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Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these grueling competitive events, runners must be in excellent condition, have unshakable self-confidence, and, most important of all, know how to pace yourself.
Parallelism..
runners must be in excellent condition, have unshakable self-confidence, and, most important of all, know how to pace yourself.
Pronoun..
The reflexive pronoun in the end should be themselves

(A) know how to pace yourself
Pronoun error
(B) is knowing how to pace yourself
Both parallelism and pronoun error
(C) know how to pace themselves
Correct
(D) you must pace yourself
Both parallelism and pronoun error
(E) they must know how to pace themselves
Parallelism error


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Re: Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these gruelin [#permalink] New post   28 Oct 2019, 06:01
must x, y,z and most important of all must Q. Via parallelism must is applied to all arms. Hence, must x, must Y ... and most important of all must know-----

Between A and C runners are plural . Hence , C is correct
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Re: Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these gruelin [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2020, 03:11
Let’s try to simplify this sentence first:
Those who enter marathons …. learn that, to succeed …, runners must be (1) in excellent condition (2) have unshakable confidence, and … (3) know how to pace …

Here we see that items are in a list and so they must be parallel in structure.

Keeping this in mind, let’s look at the reflexive pronouns ‘yourself’ and ‘themselves’.
Looking at the simplified sentence we know that it is the runners who are learning these 3 things.
Therefore, you cannot use the singular reflexive pronoun ‘yourself’ to refer to the plural runners.

Using this logic, we can eliminate Options A, B, and D.

Option D adds the pronoun ‘they’ and changes the structure. Eliminate.

Option C is the best choice.

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Re: Those who enter marathons soon learn that, to succeed in these gruelin [#permalink] New post   22 Jul 2020, 23:40
CrackVerbalGMAT wrote:
Let’s try to simplify this sentence first:
Those who enter marathons …. learn that, to succeed …, runners must be (1) in excellent condition (2) have unshakable confidence, and … (3) know how to pace …

Here we see that items are in a list and so they must be parallel in structure.

Keeping this in mind, let’s look at the reflexive pronouns ‘yourself’ and ‘themselves’.
Looking at the simplified sentence we know that it is the runners who are learning these 3 things.
Therefore, you cannot use the singular reflexive pronoun ‘yourself’ to refer to the plural runners.

Using this logic, we can eliminate Options A, B, and D.

Option D adds the pronoun ‘they’ and changes the structure. Eliminate.

Option C is the best choice.

Hope this helps!


Hi,

Be in excellent condition ( is phrase)
Have unshakable....( Verb)
Know how to pace yourself ( phrase)
How are these three are parallel,two are phrase and one is verb

Please clarify the doubt

Thanks in advance!

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