To read of Abigail Adam's lengthy separation from her family, her diff

A is correct !

To read of Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.

(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of

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Parallelism: To read... is to feel
(E) has tense error.

Hence (A)

To read ... is to feel ... . The correct answer choice is obvious.

can anyone explain option D ?
I know answer but I don't am not sure about option D !

To read of .......sounds like the main purpose is to feel intensely. Please clarify the meaning.
Also, the construction to read of X, looks odd. To read about Xor on X makes more sense.

Hi,
Is to read of an idiomatic construction? To read X ....is to feel Y makes more sense to me.
Can u kindly clear the distinction between to read of X and to read X.

It's pretty question for me. i answered C but now clear about the error. Thank you guys who answered and explained correctly. !!!!!

Excellent explanation.
Thanks. Now I understood the difference between to read and to read of.

Official Explanation

Parallelism; Verb form

A common device used to associate two verbs is structured by using the following parallel form: [infinitive phrase] is [infinitive phrase]. A well-known example of this “To know her is to love her.” This sentence correctly follows this parallel form.

A. Correct. This choice is well expressed, correctly following the device discussed above.

B. This choice does not correctly follow the device discussed above.

C. This choice does not correctly follow the device discussed above.

D. This choice does not correctly follow the device discussed above.

E. This choice uses an infinitive phrase, but it is not parallel. The simple infinitive to feel is mirrored by to have read, which is not parallel. This fails to convey properly the association between the two verbs.

The correct answer is A.

To read of Abigail Adams' lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
Notice the parallelism marker “IS” in “is to feel”
Now the parallelism used here is subtle and the marker used here is called Linking Verbs.
_____ …. IS to feel
So the correct answer choice should start with an infinitive- To + __

(A) To read of
Best of ALL.

(B) Reading about
Incorrect Parallelism

(C) Having read about
Incorrect Parallelism

(D) Once one reads of
Incorrect Parallelism


(E) To have read of
Have is wordy and redundant here. It is simple present here.

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Is choice B. wrong just because of parallelism?
(B) Reading about

varotkorn Yep. The core is "To read is to feel." "Reading is to feel" just doesn't work the same way.

To read of Abigail Adams' lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.

Answer is A.

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