The Buddhist monk explained to the gathered crowd how all people want

Question

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

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Note: I corrected the answer on Jan 14th.

Note: I corrected the answer on Jan 14th.

MorningRunner · Answer

D

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..

jugglerG2 · Answer

+1 for D.

Same explanation as  navneetb

Please provide OE. OA seems incorrect.

veergmat · Answer

People want  to be  loved  and  needed . SV and parallelism  option d)  is correct.

People - plural , Want- plural ; wants - singular

Please correct the OA.

BassanioGratiano · Answer

All people is plural so the answer choice should have "want".

D has "want" and also maintains parallelism.

dina98 · Answer

How can it not be D? People is plural

ankurgupta03 · Answer

I think the OA is not correct for this question.
 papahiroshi  can you please recheck

papahiroshi · Answer

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:

BassanioGratiano · Answer

Thank god. There was no way I was going to take the GMAT confidently if the answer was B. *breathes sigh of relief*

shriramvelamuri · Answer

Agree Answer is D. But people please could you explain why option C is wrong.

DesiGmat · Answer

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

b2bt · Answer

any comments on C? Chose D over C but just bcuz it sounded right

ankurgupta03 · Answer

want the love and the needing

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

b2bt · Answer

I think both are nouns...It definitely can't be 'the love and the needed'

damyanti · Answer

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.

DesiGmat · Answer

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.

thangvietname · Answer

why do we use doing when noun exist.

so, A, C are out.

dabaobao · Answer

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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