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To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 11 Nov 2018, 17:49
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To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job because of sex, race, or religion.

(A) To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job

(B) Forcing a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job

(C) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like to deny a person a job

(D) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying people jobs

(E) To force people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying people jobs

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Forcing a person to retire solely because he or she has reached a certain arbitrary age is no different from denying a person a job because of sex, race or religion. Forced retirement, by any name, is denial of employment.
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Originally posted by aurobindomahanty on 28 Jun 2017, 07:28.
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2017, 07:47
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To set the context, the sentence is trying to compare two actions - forcing a person and denying.

Errors: Parallelism and Pronoun.

Option A (incorrect): To force a 'person'...because 'they' is wrong (antecedent for 'they' should be plural). Denying is a verb and should have parallel construction with 'forcing'.
Option B (incorrect): Pronoun error (as explained for options A).
Option C (incorrect): Parallel construction error of 'forcing' and 'to deny'.
Option D (CORRECT): Corrects pronoun and parallelism error.
Option E (incorrect): Parallelism error.
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2017, 08:43
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To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job because of sex, race, or religion.

(A) To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job
Use of Plural pronoun (THEY) for singular antecedent (PERSON) is incorrect.
(B) Forcing a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job
Use of Plural pronoun (THEY) for singular antecedent (PERSON) is incorrect.
(C) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like to deny a person a job
Modifier (DENYING) is required to maintain Parallelism.
(D) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying people jobs
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(E) To force people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying people jobs
Use of TO FORCE is idiomatically Incorrect
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   27 Sep 2017, 09:46
experts,

could you please help me with the decision point that can be used to choose between B and d. B is singular(a person) and D is plural(people).
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   28 Sep 2017, 15:33
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The issue is the pronoun "they," which according to the GMAT is always plural. For decades, it has been standard to use the singular they/their to refer to one person of indeterminate gender, usually in cases where we don't have a specific person in mind: "Someone dropped their ticket." More recently, "they" has also become popular as a pronoun for individuals who don't identify as male or female. However, the GMAT is still stuck in the past and insists on "his or her" to refer to an individual.
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   12 Jul 2019, 03:55
To force is to deny --parallel

To force is like denying -- not grammatically parallel

Need to maintain parallelism in comparisons or idioms of contrast.
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2020, 11:07
DmitryFarber wrote:
The issue is the pronoun "they," which according to the GMAT is always plural. For decades, it has been standard to use the singular they/their to refer to one person of indeterminate gender, usually in cases where we don't have a specific person in mind: "Someone dropped their ticket." More recently, "they" has also become popular as a pronoun for individuals who don't identify as male or female. However, the GMAT is still stuck in the past and insists on "his or her" to refer to an individual.


In this (C) is more parallel than (D), even though the correct is (D)?
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2020, 11:12
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I'm not sure what you mean about C. That answer compares "Forcing" and "to deny," which are not parallel.

The "they" in C also refers to people, so is properly plural. It's not wrong to compare what several people to do with what one person does, so that's fine, and what I said about "they" wouldn't change our approach here.
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[quote="aurobindomahanty"]To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job because of sex, race, or religion.

(A) To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job

(B) Forcing a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying a person a job

(C) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like to deny a person a job

(D) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying people jobs

(E) To force people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like denying people jobs


In Options A and B - "THEY" (plural) can't refer to person (singular)- Eliminate
Between C, D, E - sometimes verbs can be used to hold two phrases parallel.
Thus C and E can be eliminated because "forcing" isn't parallel "to deny" (C)
"To force" isn't parallel to "Denying"
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Re: To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain [#permalink] New post   05 Mar 2022, 22:29
Eliminate A, C and E
Forcing and Denying, do not maintain parallelism
(A) To force a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like
denying a person a job
(C) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like
to deny a person a job
(E) To force people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like
denying people jobs

Between B, and D - option B is wrong as it doesnt maintain SV agreement
(B) Forcing a person to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like
denying a person a job
(D) Forcing people to retire solely because they have reached a certain arbitrary age is like
denying people jobs - Correct Option
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