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(C) an example of such a program designed in order to foster a nationalistic spirit and aiming to inspire

I feel like this isn't parallel. Can anyone explain?
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-ed modifiers can be parallel to -ing modifiers.
Even I made the same mistake of thinking that they are not parallel.

so, designed and aiming are parallel here.
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

So does it mean we should not be concerned about the tense of the participle /modifier? Confused here... parallel entities should also agree in tense also right??

My doubt is can aimed be a better option here

Hello iridescent995,

We hope this finds you well.

Multiple actions referring to the same subject can be in different tenses if the sentence is meant to convey that the subject took different actions in different time periods. For example, "He was on time yesterday but is late today."; here, two verbs are joined by a conjunction ("and"), meaning they must be parallel, but "was" is in the simple past because it refers to an action "He" took in the past, and "is" is in the present tense because it refers to an action that "He" is taking in the current time frame. In such cases, the elements are said to be parallel if they are either both active verbs with the same phrase structure or both participles.

Thus, "aimed" is not correct here, as the intended meaning is that the "The Boy Scouts" is currently and continuously aiming to inspire a sense of virility in young men.

We hope this helps.
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I was reading your answer (many thanks for it) and a small doubt popped up in my head.
Your example read, "He was on time yesterday but is late today." Shouldn't it be- "He was on time yesterday, but he is late today." You omitted a comma and didn't repeat the subject for the second clause. Is this correct on GMAT? Can you pls share your thoughts on this?
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Hello PyjamaScientist,

We hope this finds you well. Apologies for the late response.

In the example sentence that we provided "but" is used to join the verb phrases "was on time yesterday" and "is late today"; this is a perfectly valid construction. A sentence referring to multiple actions taken by the same subject need not use an independent clause to refer to each one. For example, "John likes apples and hates bananas." is a correct sentence that joins the verb phrase "likes apples" and "hates bananas" to act upon the subject "John". This sentence could also be written as "John likes apples, and he hates bananas.", separating the two actions into separate independent clauses, but doing so is not necessary. In fact, the former sentence would be considered superior on GMAT, as it is more concise.

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This question was difficult. Can someone help us in explaining the difference between A and C?

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Very often, while evaluating choices for grammatical parallelism, we generally mark incorrect all those choices that contain seemingly non-parallel list. We make this decision based on the notion that a verb-ed word form can never be parallel to verb-ing word form.
But this is a false notion, as there is an exception:

Verb-ed and verb-ing word forms also act as adjectives or modifiers. When these word forms describe a common entity, these can be used in a grammatically parallel list. So definitely, if the context requires, verb-ed and verb-ing word forms can be parallel to one another.

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