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Mgmat parallelism exercise doubt 10 Jul 2016, 14:39
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Hi, can you help me why my answer is wrong,

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Wrong - many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than facing low salaries in city.

My answer - many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than to face face low salaries in city

Mgmat - many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city

Can u tell me whether my answer is wrong and if so,why?

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Mgmat parallelism exercise doubt 11 Jul 2016, 06:53
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MGMAT chapter talks about "Root Phrase". Root Phrase here is :

many teachers choose to
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Followed by a parallel marker in the form "X rather than Y"
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You can alternatively post these in MGMAT's forums if you have proper access to their books. Those Forum Members are the ones who write these material.
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Hi, can you help me why my answer is wrong,

Please find the details below.

Wrong - many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than facing low salaries in city.

My answer - many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than to face face low salaries in city

Mgmat - many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs rather than face low salaries in the city

Can u tell me whether my answer is wrong and if so,why?
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This is an interesting question. According to the 'root phrase' concept, your answer ought to be fine. That's because the root phrase would be 'many teachers choose'. Both parallel elements fit that root phrase correctly:

Many teachers choose to seek employment in the suburbs
Many teachers (don't) choose to face low salaries in the city

The official MPrep answer also works. The root phrase there would be 'many teachers choose to'.

However, I'm not sure that I've ever seen anything like your answer on the GMAT, and I'm not sure whether it's 'technically' correct. If it's wrong, it's probably wrong for idiomatic reasons - i.e. 'this just isn't how we use the word 'rather''. If it helps, I haven't seen any GMAT problems where this issue made the difference between right and wrong.

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