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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 14 Jan 2015, 06:48
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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want loving and needing by other people.

a) want loving and needing

b) wants to be loved and need

c) want the love and the needing

d) want to be loved and needed

e) are wanting loving and needed

This question is from GMAT club Ultimate GMAT Grammar book. It's free! Thanks bb. :-D

Note: I corrected the answer on Jan 14th.
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Originally posted by papahiroshi on 13 Jan 2015, 05:41.
Last edited by papahiroshi on 14 Jan 2015, 06:48, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   13 Jan 2015, 06:20
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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want loving and needing by other people.

b) wants to be loved and need --> seems wrong... people is plural..

d) want to be loved and needed --> ... people want to be loved and needed -- plural verb correctly used..
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   13 Jan 2015, 08:36
+1 for D.

Same explanation as navneetb

Please provide OE. OA seems incorrect.
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   13 Jan 2015, 10:32
People want to be loved and needed. SV and parallelism option d) is correct.

People - plural , Want- plural ; wants - singular

Please correct the OA.




papahiroshi wrote:
The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want loving and needing by other people.

a) want loving and needing

b) wants to be loved and need

c) want the love and the needing

d) want to be loved and needed

e) are wanting loving and needed

This question is from GMAT club Ultimate GMAT Grammar book. It's free! Thanks bb. :-D
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   13 Jan 2015, 15:17
All people is plural so the answer choice should have "want".

D has "want" and also maintains parallelism.
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   13 Jan 2015, 21:43
How can it not be D? People is plural
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2015, 04:02
I think the OA is not correct for this question.
papahiroshi can you please recheck
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2015, 06:52
I checked the answer, just in case and noticed that it is "D". I corrected the answer today. Let me bang my head against a wall ! :cry:
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2015, 14:41
papahiroshi wrote:
I checked the answer, just in case and noticed that it is "D". I corrected the answer today. Let me bang my head against a wall ! :cry:


Thank god. There was no way I was going to take the GMAT confidently if the answer was B. *breathes sigh of relief*
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2015, 20:58
Agree Answer is D. But people please could you explain why option C is wrong.

papahiroshi wrote:
The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want loving and needing by other people.

a) want loving and needing

b) wants to be loved and need

c) want the love and the needing

d) want to be loved and needed

e) are wanting loving and needed

This question is from GMAT club Ultimate GMAT Grammar book. It's free! Thanks bb. :-D

Note: I corrected the answer on Jan 14th.
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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2015, 22:24
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The challenge here is to identify the initial and final non-parallel part.

Initial Non-parallel part - The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want to be

Final Non-Parallel part - by other people.

now parallel the left-over part of the sentence :

Option D - loved and needed

The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want to be loved by other people.
The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want to be needed by other people.

Option D
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2015, 03:24
any comments on C? Chose D over C but just bcuz it sounded right
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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2015, 03:45
b2bt wrote:
any comments on C? Chose D over C but just bcuz it sounded right

want the love and the needing

love and needing have to be in the same tense, hence C is wrong.
Hope this helps!
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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2015, 04:37
ankurgupta03 wrote:
b2bt wrote:
any comments on C? Chose D over C but just bcuz it sounded right

want the love and the needing

love and needing have to be in the same tense, hence C is wrong.
Hope this helps!

I think both are nouns...It definitely can't be 'the love and the needed' :)
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   20 Feb 2015, 10:07
In C, "all people want the needing by other people" doesn't really sound correct.

Is there any grammatical reason also why C is not correct? Can someone explain. I also think that "love" and "needing" are both nouns; so it doesn't seem to a parallelism issue at the face of it.
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2015, 06:45
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damyanti wrote:
In C, "all people want the needing by other people" doesn't really sound correct.

Is there any grammatical reason also why C is not correct? Can someone explain. I also think that "love" and "needing" are both nouns; so it doesn't seem to a parallelism issue at the face of it.



Hi damyanti,

Love is an action noun, whereas needing is a simple gerund.
In general, on GMAT action nouns and simple gerunds cannot be paralleled.


Moreover if we write the two sentences separately-
The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want the love by other people.
The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want the needing by other people.

Both the sentences have something missing in them, making them sound incorrect.

Hope it helped.
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Re: The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   15 Sep 2015, 03:47
why do we use doing when noun exist.

so, A, C are out.
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The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want [#permalink] New post   07 Mar 2019, 04:12
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papahiroshi wrote:
The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want loving and needing by other people.

a) want loving and needing

b) wants to be loved and need

c) want the love and the needing

d) want to be loved and needed

e) are wanting loving and needed


Main Issues:


1) Meaning: People "want to be" 2 things: loved & needed. While people can want "love" but they can't want "need" (doesn't make sense).
2) Parallelism: Loved & needed need to be parallel.

a) want loving and needing - Wrong: Meaning

b) wants to be loved and need - Wrong: 1) SV error 2) Parallelism

c) want the love and the needing - Wrong: Meaning

d) want to be loved and needed - Correct

e) are wanting loving and needed - Wrong: 1) Wrong verb (Present continuous). Need simple present. 2) Parallelism
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