Freud counted the ability to love, along with the capacity work, as a

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Freud counted the ability to love, along with the capacity for  work, as a hallmark of full maturity .

(a) work, as a hallmark of full maturity

(b) work, as hallmarks to full maturation.

(c) working, to be full maturity's hallmark.

(d) working, as hallmarks to full maturity.

(e) work, as being full maturations's hallmark.

1. What's the difference between work and working in this question?

2. What's wrong with d?

3. Is "hallmarks", which are plural the reason that d isn't correct?

boomtangboy · Answer

Hi

It was a tough choice between A & B

The sentence has to be parallel

Freud counted the  ability to love , along with the  capacity for work , as a  hallmark of full maturity .

Also we are comparing each, the ability to love & the capacity of work as hallmarks of full maturity hence singular tense of hallmark is required.

GetThisDone · Answer

The first thing I notice in this question is parallelism. to love ...... for work. working is wrong here.

a. Correct. 
b. Hallmarks does seem to fit in here. Not sure of the reasoning behind this. 
c. not parallel
d. not parallel
e. being is redundant and the sentence is wordy and awkward

Hope this answers you key question on use of working.

kraizada84 · Answer

Freud counted the ability to love, along with the capacity for  work, as a hallmark of full maturity .

(a) work, as a hallmark of full maturity
--> CORRECT
(b) work, as  hallmarks  to full maturation.
subject singular alongwith conserves singularity here

(c) working, to be  full maturity's hallmark. 
--> awkward

(d) working, as  hallmarks  to full maturity.
(e) work, as  being full maturations's  hallmark.
--> awkward at best

rajeevrks27 · Answer

1. What's the difference between work and working in this question?
working sounds verb whereas work is noun here, verb is simply not required here.
had it been "capacity for working long hours" , it would have sounded right.

2. What's wrong with d?

3. Is "hallmarks", which are plural the reason that d isn't correct?
Bang on. :wink:

An example
The ability to love, along with the capacity for work is the most sought after quality now days. SINGULAR.

An example The ability to love, along with the capacity for work is the most sought after quality now days. SINGULAR.

eybrj2 · Answer

Isn't "love" in the question a verb? 
I think that since "love" is a verb, "working", which is also a verb, should be used for this sentence to be parallel.

one more question, which is not related to the discussion above.

a hallmark OF full maturity or a hallmark TO full maturity.
Are both of the prepositions, to and of, correct?

jodoubt · Answer

"Love" is a noun, and for the q in reference the phrase is 'ability to love' as action 1 and "capacity for work' as action 2. 
We are focusing on parallelism, so 'capacity for working' would not be in parallel to 'ability to love'. And also 'capacity for working' what ?

As for prepositions, to and of, both are correct depending on the usage.
Hallmark of Full maturity-- here the person has gotten to the benchmark.
Hallmark to Full maturity-- here the person is getting to the benchmark. The benchmark is still Full Maturity but there is one or more qualities yet desired to get there.

sowragu · Answer

FOR --> FOR can be followed by FOR + VERB -ING or FOR + NOUN.

1. Can some one help me out how to distinguish whether "WORK" is used as a Noun or Verb + ING form?
2. To + Verb --> Hence, is "Love" used as a verb here?
3. Can "To" be followed by a noun? I m able to relate few examples. (She was born to you.) But the above sentence, I m unable to understand how "LOVE" is acting as a noun?

Someone kindly help me in understanding.

chetan2u · Answer

Hi,
 here "for WORKING" uses "working" as VERB+ing form, which acts as a gerund here.. 
 the role of a gerund is ofcourse similar to NOUN and here it acts as an OBJECT OF PREPOSITION...

To base form of verb is INFINITIVE and used here accordingly..

EducationAisle · Answer

Hi sowragu, chetan has already answered your first question.

Yes. The easiest way to understand this, is that  ability to love  could as well have been  ability to drink  or  ability to laugh . It's easy to identify that  drink  and  laugh  are verbs.

Yeah this is a bit of a  unique  thing with  to . It can serve as two completely  different  structures:

i) Infinitives:  to + verb . For example:  to eat, to run, to go, to love  etc.
ii) Prepositions:  to + noun . For example:  to New York, to SFO, to Mary  etc.

vikas9945 · Answer

A vs D

Work vs working

Hallmark vs hallmarks

dabaobao · Answer

(a) work, as a hallmark of full maturity  - Correct: Good parallelism.

(b) work, as  hallmarks   to  full maturation.  - Wrong: 1) "X, along Y," is considered a singular subject. Hence, "hallmarks" is wrong. 2) Wrong Preposition: "to" instead of "of"

(c)  working ,  to be  full  maturity's hallmark.   - Wrong: 1) "to be" instead of "as" 2) Parallelism: "love" should be parallel to "work" and not "working". 3) "X's Y" distorts meaning. "Y of X" is better.

(d)  working , as  hallmarks   to  full maturity.  - Wrong: 1) "X, along Y," is considered a singular subject. Hence, "hallmarks" is wrong. 2) Wrong Preposition: "to" instead of "of" 3) Parallelism: "love" should be parallel to "work" and not "working".

(e) work, as  being  full  maturations's hallmark.   - Wrong: 1) "X's Y" distorts meaning. "Y of X" is better. 2) Unnecessary use of "being"

Pankaj0901 · Answer

I am still confused with FOR WORK vs FOR WORKING. Can someone please throw some light on this? Thanks in advance.
 DanTe02  - can you help please?

DanTe02 · Answer

Pankaj0901  I'd say these nitpicks should be last thing you worry in SC , this question has concrete error like Freud counted ability of love as hallmark(singular)
Since the middle part is a non essential modifier. Also it makes sense meaning wise to say hallmark of something rather than to be full maturity's hallmark. Not satisfied yet? Here's the thing you pointed out
For working vs for work
The police caught the man for stealing coconuts (not sure if that's a thing)
Now notice you cannot do the same thing replacing for + verbing with just for + verb. There'll be mostly a change of meaning

Also for what's it worth I see a bunch of people using parallelism to prove this wrong I don't think so along with is a parallelism marker. I'm not sure about it
Jake is playing & dancing(Cool parallelism
Jake is playing,along with dancing,everytime I see him(doesn't have to be necessarily parallel)
Jake is playing, along with dance, everytime I see him

Now if you ask me I'll pick second over third because it's a better way to write

Kudos if i was of any help

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DanTe02 · Answer

Pankaj0901  I'd say these nitpicks should be last thing you worry in SC , this question has concrete error like Freud counted ability of love as hallmark(singular)
Since the middle part is a non essential modifier. Also it makes sense meaning wise to say hallmark of something rather than to be full maturity's hallmark. Not satisfied yet? Here's the thing you pointed out
For working vs for work
The police caught the man for stealing coconuts (not sure if that's a thing)
Now notice you cannot do the same thing replacing for + verbing with just for + verb. There'll be mostly a change of meaning

Also for what's it worth I see a bunch of people using parallelism to prove this wrong I don't think so along with is a parallelism marker. I'm not sure about it
Jake is playing & dancing(Cool parallelism
Jake is playing,along with dancing,everytime I see him(doesn't have to be necessarily parallel)
Jake is playing, along with dance, everytime I see him

Now if you ask me I'll pick second over third because it's a better way to write

Kudos if i was of any help

Posted from my mobile device

Pankaj0901 · Answer

Thanks  DanTe02  You have a point- There is a bigger issue in the sentence and other minute details shouldn't really bother me.

I was just curious to understand the grammatical standpoint of "for verb-ing" and "for verb". If I understood your point correctly: while the use of "for work" in the given sentence is right, "for working" would not be wrong. Correct? (Unlike the case, as you mentioned in your example, where "for verb" cannot replace "for verb-ing".)

DanTe02 · Answer

Pankaj0901 Indeed, You're right

Here is a good example I dug in from OG for you https://gmatclub.com/forum/because-it-r ... 68577.html Posted from my mobile device

achloes · Answer

REMEMBER: Additive phrases can never change a singular main subject to plural.

Examples of these phrases are  accompanied by, along with, as well as, in addition to, including, and together with.

The President of the United States,  accompanied by  his advisors,  was  en route to Europe.
 NOT  The President of the United States,  accompanied by  his advisors,  were  en route to Europe.

The instructor,  along with  the class,  is  angry about the room change.
 NOT  The instructor,  along with  the class,  are  angry about the room change.

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