dharun08 wrote:
Dr Crock's claims
have been not corroborated by other scientists or published in a prestigious journal but have nonetheless garnered a great deal of attention from the public
There is an error with parallelism in the above sentence. Can someone please help me with this?
ANSWER: Dr Crock’s claims have not BEEN corroborated by other scientists or PUBLISHED in a prestigious journal but HAVE nonetheless GARNERED a
great deal of attention from the public.
This is a problem from
MGMAT.(parallelism chapter question nos:15)
Hello,
dharun08. The problem in the original sentence appears to be the placement of the word
not. It is customary in English to place the negation between the two halves of a verb written in the present perfect or past perfect tense.
1) I
have been studying.
1.2) I
have not
been studying.
2) She
had won the Nobel Prize.
2.2. She
had not
won the Nobel Prize.
If you look at the sentence you reproduced earlier, you can check for parallelism by carrying over
Dr. Crock's claims into both halves of the sentence:
Dr Crock's claims have not been corroborated by other scientists or published in a prestigious journal BUT
[Dr Crock's claims] have nonetheless garnered a great deal of attention from the publicThe placement of
by other scientists and
from the public is a little different because that is simply what the context of each part of the sentence dictates. It would not make sense in the second part to write,
[Dr Crock's claims] have nonetheless garnered from the public a great deal of attention. That is just the way this particular sentence takes shape.
I would suggest you read the chapter very carefully, taking notes when you need to, and taking breaks if necessary, so that you can process all the information. Parallelism is important to understand for GMAT™ purposes.
Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
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20 Dec 2021, 08:35
