Freud counted the ability to love, along with the capacity work, as a

Freud counted the ability to love, along with the capacity for work, as a hallmark of full maturity.

(a) work, as a hallmark of full maturity
--> CORRECT
(b) work, as hallmarks to full maturation.
subject singular alongwith conserves singularity here

(c) working, to be full maturity's hallmark.
--> awkward

(d) working, as hallmarks to full maturity.
(e) work, as being full maturations's hallmark.
--> awkward at best

1. What's the difference between work and working in this question?
working sounds verb whereas work is noun here, verb is simply not required here.
had it been "capacity for working long hours" , it would have sounded right.

2. What's wrong with d?

3. Is "hallmarks", which are plural the reason that d isn't correct?
Bang on.
An example
The ability to love, along with the capacity for work is the most sought after quality now days. SINGULAR.

Isn't "love" in the question a verb?
I think that since "love" is a verb, "working", which is also a verb, should be used for this sentence to be parallel.


one more question, which is not related to the discussion above.

a hallmark OF full maturity or a hallmark TO full maturity.
Are both of the prepositions, to and of, correct?

"Love" is a noun, and for the q in reference the phrase is 'ability to love' as action 1 and "capacity for work' as action 2.
We are focusing on parallelism, so 'capacity for working' would not be in parallel to 'ability to love'. And also 'capacity for working' what ?

As for prepositions, to and of, both are correct depending on the usage.
Hallmark of Full maturity-- here the person has gotten to the benchmark.
Hallmark to Full maturity-- here the person is getting to the benchmark. The benchmark is still Full Maturity but there is one or more qualities yet desired to get there.

FOR --> FOR can be followed by FOR + VERB -ING or FOR + NOUN.

1. Can some one help me out how to distinguish whether "WORK" is used as a Noun or Verb + ING form?
2. To + Verb --> Hence, is "Love" used as a verb here?
3. Can "To" be followed by a noun? I m able to relate few examples. (She was born to you.) But the above sentence, I m unable to understand how "LOVE" is acting as a noun?

Someone kindly help me in understanding.

Hi,
here "for WORKING" uses "working" as VERB+ing form, which acts as a gerund here..
the role of a gerund is ofcourse similar to NOUN and here it acts as an OBJECT OF PREPOSITION...

To base form of verb is INFINITIVE and used here accordingly..

Hi sowragu, chetan has already answered your first question.


Yes. The easiest way to understand this, is that ability to love could as well have been ability to drink or ability to laugh. It's easy to identify that drink and laugh are verbs.


Yeah this is a bit of a unique thing with to. It can serve as two completely different structures:

i) Infinitives: to + verb. For example: to eat, to run, to go, to love etc.
ii) Prepositions: to + noun. For example: to New York, to SFO, to Mary etc.

A vs D

Work vs working

Hallmark vs hallmarks

(a) work, as a hallmark of full maturity - Correct: Good parallelism.

(b) work, as hallmarks to full maturation. - Wrong: 1) "X, along Y," is considered a singular subject. Hence, "hallmarks" is wrong. 2) Wrong Preposition: "to" instead of "of"

(c) working, to be full maturity's hallmark. - Wrong: 1) "to be" instead of "as" 2) Parallelism: "love" should be parallel to "work" and not "working". 3) "X's Y" distorts meaning. "Y of X" is better.

(d) working, as hallmarks to full maturity. - Wrong: 1) "X, along Y," is considered a singular subject. Hence, "hallmarks" is wrong. 2) Wrong Preposition: "to" instead of "of" 3) Parallelism: "love" should be parallel to "work" and not "working".

(e) work, as being full maturations's hallmark. - Wrong: 1) "X's Y" distorts meaning. "Y of X" is better. 2) Unnecessary use of "being"

I am still confused with FOR WORK vs FOR WORKING. Can someone please throw some light on this? Thanks in advance.
DanTe02 - can you help please?

Pankaj0901 I'd say these nitpicks should be last thing you worry in SC , this question has concrete error like Freud counted ability of love as hallmark(singular)
Since the middle part is a non essential modifier. Also it makes sense meaning wise to say hallmark of something rather than to be full maturity's hallmark. Not satisfied yet? Here's the thing you pointed out
For working vs for work
The police caught the man for stealing coconuts (not sure if that's a thing)
Now notice you cannot do the same thing replacing for + verbing with just for + verb. There'll be mostly a change of meaning

Also for what's it worth I see a bunch of people using parallelism to prove this wrong I don't think so along with is a parallelism marker. I'm not sure about it
Jake is playing & dancing(Cool parallelism
Jake is playing,along with dancing,everytime I see him(doesn't have to be necessarily parallel)
Jake is playing, along with dance, everytime I see him


Now if you ask me I'll pick second over third because it's a better way to write

Kudos if i was of any help

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Pankaj0901 I'd say these nitpicks should be last thing you worry in SC , this question has concrete error like Freud counted ability of love as hallmark(singular)
Since the middle part is a non essential modifier. Also it makes sense meaning wise to say hallmark of something rather than to be full maturity's hallmark. Not satisfied yet? Here's the thing you pointed out
For working vs for work
The police caught the man for stealing coconuts (not sure if that's a thing)
Now notice you cannot do the same thing replacing for + verbing with just for + verb. There'll be mostly a change of meaning

Also for what's it worth I see a bunch of people using parallelism to prove this wrong I don't think so along with is a parallelism marker. I'm not sure about it
Jake is playing & dancing(Cool parallelism
Jake is playing,along with dancing,everytime I see him(doesn't have to be necessarily parallel)
Jake is playing, along with dance, everytime I see him


Now if you ask me I'll pick second over third because it's a better way to write

Kudos if i was of any help

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Thanks DanTe02 You have a point- There is a bigger issue in the sentence and other minute details shouldn't really bother me.

I was just curious to understand the grammatical standpoint of "for verb-ing" and "for verb". If I understood your point correctly: while the use of "for work" in the given sentence is right, "for working" would not be wrong. Correct? (Unlike the case, as you mentioned in your example, where "for verb" cannot replace "for verb-ing".)

Pankaj0901 Indeed, You're right
Here is a good example I dug in from OG for you
https://gmatclub.com/forum/because-it-r ... 68577.html

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REMEMBER: Additive phrases can never change a singular main subject to plural.

Examples of these phrases are accompanied by, along with, as well as, in addition to, including, and together with.

The President of the United States, accompanied by his advisors, was en route to Europe.
NOT The President of the United States, accompanied by his advisors, were en route to Europe.

The instructor, along with the class, is angry about the room change.
NOT The instructor, along with the class, are angry about the room change.