The lawyer for the defense charged that she suspected the police of ha

IMO D.

To narrow down the choices, first look at 'of having'. Next, take out [illegally taped her confidential conversations with her client ]

She suspected the police 'of having'.. 'and then of using'. Of having and of using should be parallel.

Therefore, eliminate A,B,C.

Next, 'taped' is past tense. Look in D and E for past tense in regards to obtaining evidence so the two are parallel.

'they had obtained' is past tense.

Choose D.

indeed D is the right answer. Still, could someone explain why "of using" in this case have to be parallel to "of having" ?

she suspected the police of having illegally taped her
she suspected the police of using the information

of having || of using

Nope. Police is plural. Look at the un-underlined part at the end using a plural pronoun 'their'. You can not reject BCDE on that count. It is a test of //ism. D is the answer.

The lawyer for the defence charged that she suspected the police of having illegally taped her confidential conversations with her client and then used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges.

(A) used the information obtained to find evidence supporting
(B) used such information as they obtained to find evidence supporting
(C) used the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
(D) of using the information they had obtained to find evidence that would support
(E) of using such information as they obtained to find evidence that would be supportive of

please explain two things here

meaning says :- lawyer suspected police of two things
1) having illegally taped confidential information
2) and then used that information to find evidence supporting..

official Ans says D. My concern here is
she is suspecting something , means she is not sure, so how come non underlined part is 100% and under lined part is with would, which is used for not certain things, are parallel.
If I consider it may be because we cannot doubt on non underlined part, but why C is wrong we can uses ellipses here to sho parallelism.

1) having illegally taped confidential information
2) and then (having )used that information to find evidence supporting..

please clarify

Dear sudhirmadaan,
I'm happy to respond. I'm not sure who the author of this question is, but I don't think it's of exceptionally high quality.

First of all, the first structure is "suspected" ... "of" + [gerund]. The first branch of the parallelism puts the verb in gerund form, as the object of the preposition "of," so the second branch must match this. Choices (A), (B), and (C) all have a full verb in the second branch of the parallelism, so they violate parallelism. Only (D) and (E) get the parallelism correct.

Choice (E) is a trainwreck disaster, so that leaves (D) as the only viable answer. (D) is awkward and rhetorically poor in a way that does not resemble any correct answer on the GMAT. I don't have a high opinion of this question.

The verb "suspect" does imply uncertainty, but it's redundant to use a hypothetical verb in the "that" clause that follows.
I suspect that he robbed the bank.
The fact is my hypothetical supposition, but we use the the simple past tense inside the "that" clause. Compare the following
"I suspect that he would rob a bank."
Here, my suspicion is not about the person's actions, but about the person's motives and intentions. This is a very different statement. In general, it would be redundant to use a conditional verb inside the "that" clause of the verb "suspect."

Does all this make sense?
Mike

The lawyer of defense suspected the police of two things:-
1) of having illegally taped her conversation
2) and of using the information for their use.
Option A, B and C are out.

We need 'the' before information as we are talking about a particular information. E is out

D is the answer

There are three events in the issue.
1.The police were illegally taping the conversation. This is the first event.
2. Then they used it to bolster the oncoming murder charges. This is the second event.
3. The defense lawyer alleged about the two misdemeanors of the police. This is the third event.
Whether she is still suspecting it is not germane to the issue. The police actions are indeed the two earlier cited illegal taping of the private conversation and wrongfully using dialogue to find evidence for their murder charges.

Thank you for your response. My concern is that we don't know whether the police action in 1. & 2. has taken place. She is suspecting that the police has done so. It may or may not be so. Can we use had in such a case?

Regards
Manish

Dear Manish
In this Sentence Correction and our issue is whether the taping and evidencing were done earlier than suspecting and charging. If the phrase 'having taped and used' points to the earlierness of the event, then we should be happy to use 'had.' If we doubt whether action one and two were ever done by the police, that debate will be part of critical reasoning
daagh

IMO OA is D

The lawyer suspected about police that
1) have illegally taped
2) used the information to find evidence

-> So we have to use 'of~'. A,B,C is out

Between D and E, D is correct.

In E, there is only 'they obtained'. Obtaining tape was happened before when lawyer suspected.
In D, however, I can see 'had obtained'. So D is more clear.
So I chose D.

i think that it is good to use "having taped and used' because these two actions happen before 'suppected'

so, why A is incorrect?

Same Q! Why is A incorrect? How do we know that the parallel is between "of having" and "of using" and not "taped" and "used"?

I think A seems better than D since it's more concise and avoids conditional "would".
GMATNinja generis daagh

Hi dabaobao, we know the parallelism is between of having and of using, because well, both are prepositional phrases (and in fact, start with the same preposition of, which makes the parallelism even more evident).

A can get worse in terms of interpretation. used is used as a verb here. So, used is parallel to the verb suspected on the Left hand side of and. Now, notice the structure of A:

...she suspected...and then used...

This means that she used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges.

This is clearly absurd because the intent is that the police used the information obtained to find evidence supporting their murder charges.

hi - I do not understand why D is correct. Can I get some help on this please?

rnn D is the listed answer! I don't think this is a very good question, though. Is it really an official SC? Hmm . . .

I am sorry DmitryFarber - I meant to say why this answer is correct