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For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2013, 12:42
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For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and builds instruments for testing her findings.

(A) builds instruments for testing
(B) has built instruments as tests for
(C) built instruments to test
(D) will build instruments that test
(E) would build instruments in testing

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Re: For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2013, 13:16
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Q.For over forty years carleen maley hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and builds instruments for testing her fingers.

a.builds instruments for testing
b.has built instruments to test for
c.built instruments to test
d.will build instruments that test
e.would build instruments in testing

Can someone please provide explanation for this question?


Answer C

Choice A - builds incorrect simple present tense verb
Choice B - to test for her fingers .... distorts meaning with use of modified infinitive
Choice C - (has is not repeated but meant) has built used, correct verb form present perfect tense
Choice D and E - future tense used

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Re: For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2013, 13:24
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Thanks SDAS. It helped.
But I thought that it should be B because of evident parallelism. Can you explain what makes you say "has is not repeated but meant"?

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sdas wrote:
darthvader2204 wrote:
Q.For over forty years carleen maley hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and builds instruments for testing her fingers.

a.builds instruments for testing
b.has built instruments to test for
c.built instruments to test
d.will build instruments that test
e.would build instruments in testing

Can someone please provide explanation for this question?


Answer C

Choice A - builds incorrect simple present tense verb
Choice B - to test for her fingers .... distorts meaning with use of modified infinitive
Choice C - (has is not repeated but meant) has built used, correct verb form present perfect tense
Choice D and E - future tense used

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Re: For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   03 Mar 2013, 16:33
darthvader2204 wrote:
Thanks SDAS. It helped.
But I thought that it should be B because of evident parallelism. Can you explain what makes you say "has is not repeated but meant"?

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sdas wrote:
darthvader2204 wrote:
Q.For over forty years carleen maley hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and builds instruments for testing her fingers.

a.builds instruments for testing
b.has built instruments to test for
c.built instruments to test
d.will build instruments that test
e.would build instruments in testing

Can someone please provide explanation for this question?


Answer C

Choice A - builds incorrect simple present tense verb
Choice B - to test for her fingers .... distorts meaning with use of modified infinitive
Choice C - (has is not repeated but meant) has built used, correct verb form present perfect tense
Choice D and E - future tense used

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My two pennies worth - Option B would have been correct if the sentence was something like "Hutchins painstakingly has analyzed and has built.." Hope it's clear.
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Re: For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2013, 01:53
darthvader2204 wrote:
Thanks SDAS. It helped.
But I thought that it should be B because of evident parallelism. Can you explain what makes you say "has is not repeated but meant"?

thanks


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darthvader2204 wrote:
Q.For over forty years carleen maley hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and builds instruments for testing her fingers.

a.builds instruments for testing
b.has built instruments to test for
c.built instruments to test
d.will build instruments that test
e.would build instruments in testing

Can someone please provide explanation for this question?


Answer C

Choice A - builds incorrect simple present tense verb
Choice B - to test for her fingers .... distorts meaning with use of modified infinitive
Choice C - (has is not repeated but meant) has built used, correct verb form present perfect tense
Choice D and E - future tense used

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Choice B is parallel, but it distorts meaning "test for her fingers" . Intended meaning is to test her fingers
If both verbs contain (analyzed and built) same auxiliary verbs, the second one can be omitted
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Re: For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   22 Mar 2017, 00:44
Q.For over forty years carleen maley hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and builds instruments for testing her fingers.

a.builds instruments for testing
b.has built instruments to test for
c.built instruments to test
d.will build instruments that test
e.would build instruments in testing

vould anyone tell me why D is wrong ?
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Re: For over forty years Carleen Maley Hutchins has painstakingly analyzed [#permalink] New post   22 Mar 2017, 02:09
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Would anyone tell me why D is wrong ?


For over forty years carleen maley hutchins has painstakingly analyzed the acoustical secrets of the best violins and (has) built instruments to test her fingers.

We need two parallel phrases in the same tense, therefore we cannot use will. Also, it's not the instruments who do the testing.
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