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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider the Declaration of Independence to be a document important to print and made available for the people, in spite of the risks inherent in printing what the British called a "treasonable document."

A.to be a document important to print and made available for the people,
B.should be a document important to print and made available for the people,
C.as being a document important to print and making copies available,
D.as if it was a document important to either print or make available to the people,
E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
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Consider X, y is the correct idiom to use.

Consider X to be y

consider X should be Y is all wrong thus taking out all the options A through D . Hence C.
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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer 03 Oct 2013, 09:36
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Consider X Y is the correct idiomatic use, moreover, A maintain parallelism..X to print and Make available
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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider the Declaration of Independence to be a document important to print and made available for the people, in spite of the risks inherent in printing what the British called a "treasonable document."

A.to be a document important to print and made available for the people,
B.should be a document important to print and made available for the people,
C.as being a document important to print and making copies available,
D.as if it was a document important to either print or make available to the people,
E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
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IMO E

Idiom: Consider X Y is the one which is preferred in GMAT Land.

Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider < the Declaration of Independence > < a document important to print and made available for the people >,in spite of the risks inherent in printing what the British called a "treasonable document.

X -> the Declaration of Independence
Y -> a document important to print and made available for the people

Below choices contain unnecessary preposition/words in between X and Y

Choice A : Consider X to be Y is wrong
Choice B : Consider X should be Y is wrong
Choice C : Consider X as being Y is wrong
Choice D : Consider X as if it was Y is wrong
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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer 03 Oct 2013, 19:23
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Is there a typo in E

E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
shouldn't this be made
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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer 03 Oct 2013, 23:40
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Is there a typo in E

E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
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Hi GMAT40

Nope, there's no typo here. E is correct. The structure of E is:
Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider the Declaration of Independence a document important to print and [to] make available to the people,.....

You can avoid repeating preposition to make a sentence concise without any meaning changes.

Hope it helps.
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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer 03 Oct 2013, 23:47
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Is there a typo in E

E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
shouldn't this be made

Hi GMAT40

Nope, there's no typo here. E is correct. The structure of E is:
Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider the Declaration of Independence a document important to print and [to] make available to the people,.....

You can avoid repeating preposition to make a sentence concise without any meaning changes.

Hope it helps.
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Hi,

Thanks for your reply. However my query was regarding "make" or "made". I did not select E because of "make" in the sentence.
Can you please clarify this doubt.

Many thanks
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Is there a typo in E

E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
shouldn't this be made

Hi GMAT40

Nope, there's no typo here. E is correct. The structure of E is:
Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider the Declaration of Independence a document important to print and [to] make available to the people,.....

You can avoid repeating preposition to make a sentence concise without any meaning changes.

Hope it helps.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. However my query was regarding "make" or "made". I did not select E because of "make" in the sentence.
Can you please clarify this doubt.

Many thanks
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Hi GMAT40
Whenever you see "and", immediately look up parallel structure.

If you use "made" instead of "make" ==> parallel structure is: Mary Katherine Goddard WAS the first American printer to consider ...........and MADE available to the people...... ==> PAST tense || PAST tense.
Does it make sense though? Mary made available to the people.....?

Thus the correct parallel structure is: TO PRINT and TO MAKE.... However, you can omit the second "to" ==> the structure is "TO PRINT and MAKE" ==> infinitive || infinitive.

Hope it helps.
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Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer 21 Dec 2013, 13:04
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Thanks pqhai,

Indeed, I believe that lack of parallelism/meaning change would be a better reason to elimate choice (a) - and not idiom as some pointed out before.

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Is there a typo in E

E.a document important to print and make available to the people,
shouldn't this be made

Hi GMAT40

Nope, there's no typo here. E is correct. The structure of E is:
Mary Katherine Goddard was the first American printer to consider the Declaration of Independence a document important to print and [to] make available to the people,.....

You can avoid repeating preposition to make a sentence concise without any meaning changes.

Hope it helps.


Hi GMAT40
Whenever you see "and", immediately look up parallel structure.

If you use "made" instead of "make" ==> parallel structure is: Mary Katherine Goddard WAS the first American printer to consider ...........and MADE available to the people...... ==> PAST tense || PAST tense.
Does it make sense though? Mary made available to the people.....?

Thus the correct parallel structure is: TO PRINT and TO MAKE.... However, you can omit the second "to" ==> the structure is "TO PRINT and MAKE" ==> infinitive || infinitive.

Hope it helps.
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