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One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver

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One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver [#permalink] New post   05 Jun 2010, 01:53
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One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove all traces of man ever setting foot there.


A. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove

B. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing

C. many dreams for his dear homeland was converting one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing

D. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove

E. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove

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Re: One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver [#permalink] New post   18 Jun 2010, 10:08
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Hi Guys,

This is certainly not a real GMAT question. There is nothing wrong with A.

Here is how parallelism works with infinitives:

Correct: I like to eat, to sleep, and to run. (The list starts after the word "like".)

Correct: I like to eat, sleep, and run. (The list starts after the "to".)

Incorrect: I like to eat, sleep, and to run.

You must stay consistent! Use "to" in every item, or parallel items can be just the base verb after the "to".

As for dear/dearly:

This a matter of adjectives versus adverbs.

"Dear" is an adjective. Adjectives describe ONLY NOUNS.

"Dearly" is an adverb. Adverbs describes words that are NOT NOUNS.

In this sentence, we are trying to describe the word "homeland," which is a noun.
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Re: One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver [#permalink] New post   23 Jun 2010, 12:12
IMO C

46. One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove all traces of man ever setting foot there.
A. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove - incorrect - missing parallelism it should be "to remove" and not only "remove"
B. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing
C. many dreams for his dear homeland was converting one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing - converting and removing - so maintains parallelism, so correct
D. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove
E. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove

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Re: One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver [#permalink] New post   30 Jun 2010, 05:47
IMO - C
Either the answer is Option A or C.
Option A: As per my understanding from MGMAT SC, 'to remove' instead of 'remove' is not required: If there are more than one infinitive verbs, then the one after 'and' does not require the 'to' and can be a bare Infinitive.
What does not go in favor of option A is the use of Infinitive itself. As per my understanding, for an infinitive to be used, the sentence structure should be:
- S + Subjunctive Verb + that + Bare Infinitive OR S + Subjunctive Verb + O + Infinitive.
However in the above sentence, there is no subjunctive verb at all. If seen carefully:
One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland[Subject] was[Verb and NOT Subjunctive Verb] to convert.... [Object]. For this reason I believe that the Infinitive itself should not be used and preference for the ING Forms.

Please correct me if I am wrong !!!
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Re: One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to conver [#permalink] New post   24 Mar 2020, 04:46
Can anyone tell me why option A is wrong. As far as parallelism error is concerned, i think to (convert and remove) should be absolutely fine. And if we consider this from meaning perspective, then IMO, option C is conveying that his dream was the action of "converting the field" into something and not like he wanted "to convert the field" , which option A is saying. Thanks.

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