Psychological studies have found that children who are afflicted with

As I have learnt that sometimes we need to repeat the VERB if the sequential list going too far from the SUBJECT as in this question.
But, When does that SOMETIMES come--- NO idea..

Experts,
Can you please tell... what the point of reasoning in eliminating B..??

Hi,
this Q is correct in parallelism and meaning too..
lets see what are the parallel items here.
that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are
a)difficult to teach,
b)inattentive,
c)and unable to sit still for very long...

so the sentence may read as..
that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, are inattentive, and are unable to sit still for very long...
and it is perfectly fine the way it is...
all three tell us about the children affected by ADD and , therefore are parallel and logical

Kanigmat
We can use ‘to’ for
1. Infinitives ---- to+ verb (to attend, to teach)
2. prepositional phrases -- to + noun ( to Delhi, to the school) But can we use to for adjectives, such as ---difficult to inattentive, and are difficult to unable to sit? No. This is not permissible.

Prakhar

B will effectively mean:
that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, are inattentive, and are are unable to; see the double are after and. As per the tenets of //ism, you can use ‘are’ for the first one and skip for the other two or use ‘are’ for all the three each. B is selectively missing the ‘are’ only for the middle one and therefore, incorrect.

studies found that - that is required , rule out C & D - Studies were not conducted to find children.
Among A , B and E - are - || structure required mentioning characteristics - difficult to teach , are inattentive and are unable to sit still for very long.
A is correct , Both B and E have list with parallel element not similar construct issue.

Psychological studies have found that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and unable to sit still for very long.

(A) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and - all looks good to me!
(B) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and are - "difficult", "inattentive" and "are unable" are not parallel
(C) children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and they are - again, parallelism
(D) children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, and inattentive, and they are - parallelism!
(E) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, they are inattentive, and are - parallelism!

Really easy one if you quickly realise that there is parallelism going on.

Correct Answer: A

In this sentence, the subject, "the children", is described with a series of three adjectival phrases that require parallel construction: "difficult to teach", "inattentive", and "unable to sit for very long". Answer choice A, the correct response, is the only one that maintains the consistent, parallel, participial phrase construction. Answer choice B would be correct if the third element were "inattentive", not 'are inattentive'. Because answer choice C lacks a preceding "that", the meaning of the sentence is distorted, implying that the studies found the children themselves rather than their attributes. Answer choice D is wrong for the same reason. Answer choice E is not parallel.

shortest way to look at this problem
found that is correct use here in this question. C, D are wrong
E: are difficult to teach, they are inattentive, and are unable ... not parallel so wrong
B: difficult to teach, inattentive, and are this are is a verb that is placed incorrectly here between action verbs, so not good parallelism .
A : has all the action verbs parallel.

1.2 mins max

I agree with you.
A could be confusing in meaning.
It can be "are difficult to teach, are difficult to inattentive, and are difficult to unable to sit still for very long", which will not be correct.

Still we are choosing A because I think it is the best of the lot.

The only possible parallel meaning of A is

Psychological studies have found that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are
- difficult to teach
- inattentive
- unable to sit still for very long

"Difficult (to teach)", "inattentive", and "unable (to sit still for very long)" function as adjectives describing children with ADD, with infinitives "to teach" and "to sit still for very long" describing "difficult" and "unable" respectively. Since all of the list items are adjectives, this list is parallel.

The option of

Psychological studies have found that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are
- difficult to teach
- difficult to inattentive
- difficult to unable to sit still for very long

is not a possible meaning of A, as "difficult to inattentive" and "difficult to unable" don't mean anything — the correct structure is "adj + infinitive" (as in "difficult to teach", "unable to sit", "plain to see", "excited to go", "good to hear", etc.), NOT "adj + to + adjective" (as in "difficult to inattentive" and "difficult to unable"). Because "difficult to inattentive" and "difficult to unable" are not correct structures, they don't function as adjectives and thus aren't parallel to "difficult to teach".

Let us first dissect the sentence.
Psychological studies have found that - Here that introduces a clause
children
who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) – This is a restrictive clause
are difficult to teach, inattentive, and unable to sit still for very long.
SV pair – Children are
We have a parallel list difficult to teach, inattentive, and unable to sit still.

(A) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and
This choice appears to be correct.

(B) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and are
And are is incorrect in this parallel list.

(C) children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and they are
Ans they are is incorrect in this parallel list. Found that is missing in this choice.


(D) children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, and inattentive, and they are
Ans they are is incorrect in this parallel list. And inattentive is incorrect since we have a list of three elements and and should appear before the third and last element in the list. Found that is missing in this choice.

(E) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, they are inattentive, and are
they are inattentive, and are – is incorrect in the list for reasons stated above.

Answer is A.

Psychological studies have found that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and unable to sit still for very long.
And is a parallel indicator.
The list is difficult to teach, inattentive and unable to sit – This list is of nouns

(A) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and
(B) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and are
And are is incorrect and is not the right parallel list.

(C) children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, inattentive, and they are
Have found children – Changes the meaning of the sentence.
And they are is incorrect and is not the right parallel list.

(D) children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, and inattentive, and they are
And they are is incorrect and is not the right parallel list.
Have found children – Changes the meaning of the sentence.
(E) that children who are afflicted with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) are difficult to teach, they are inattentive, and are

are difficult to teach, they are inattentive, and are - is not the right parallel list.

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