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During the summer of 2008, an unemployed investment banker with over 25 years of experience named Joshua Persky made news by walking the streets of New York City's financial district in a suit with a sandwich board advertising his services. Many social commentators disagreed on the implications of this,  either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual .

(A) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(B) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(C) seeing either Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(D) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and as an unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(E) seeing either Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

Archit3110 · Answer

IMO B ;
either X or Y 
either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

During the summer of 2008, an unemployed investment banker with over 25 years of experience named Joshua Persky made news by walking the streets of New York City's financial district in a suit with a sandwich board advertising his services. Many social commentators disagreed on the implications of this,  either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
 
(A) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(B) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(C) seeing either Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(D) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and as an unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(E) seeing either Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individua

Tracy95 · Answer

(B) is correct :  either seeing  Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job  or viewing  Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

B has the correct parallel:  either seeing X as ... or viewing Y as ...

daagh · Answer

A, C, and E are wrong for flouting correlative conjunction parallelism 
B is more precise than D by avoiding the repletion of the prepositional phrase 'as a' for the second item of the list. 
B is the answer

exc4libur · Answer

MEANING
Many disagreed on this, either seeing his efforts as a manner to seek, or viewing his strategy as a savvy means to attract.
Idiom "Either…Or" must maintain parallelism; Also, "desperate and unprofessional" must be equally mod manner.

Ans (B)

madgmat2019 · Answer

A,C,E lacks in parallelism
D- as an unprofessional....wordy... incorrect

OA:B

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OC2910 · Answer

During the summer of 2008, an unemployed investment banker with over 25 years of experience named Joshua Persky made news by walking the streets of New York City's financial district in a suit with a sandwich board advertising his services. Many social commentators disagreed on the implications of this, either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(A)   either seeing   Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or   they viewed Joshua's   strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.:  Not Parallel

(B) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.  Hold

(C) seeing either  Joshua's efforts  as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or  viewing Joshua's strategy  as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual. Not Parallel

(D) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and as an unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.  Hold

(E) seeing either  Joshua's efforts  as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or  they viewed  Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual. Not Parallel

Between B and D 
D is better because the determinant shall be repeated

eakabuah · Answer

The best answer is option B.

This question tests parallelism. either X or Y. X and Y must be parallel. In option A, seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job is not parallel to they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual. Based on the parallelism requirements of either X or Y, we can eliminate options A, C, and E.

Between B and D, B is more concise.

During the summer of 2008, an unemployed investment banker with over 25 years of experience named Joshua Persky made news by walking the streets of New York City's financial district in a suit with a sandwich board advertising his services. Many social commentators disagreed on the implications of this,  either   seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job   or   they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(A)  either   seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job   or    they  viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual .

(B)  either   seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job   or   viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual .

(C) seeing  either   Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job   or    viewing   Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.

(D)  either   seeing Joshua's efforts  as a desperate and   as   an unprofessional manner to seek a job  or   viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual .

(E) seeing  either   Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job   or    they viewed  Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual .

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

This question tests the idiom:  either X or Y  where both X and Y are parallel.

In the original sentence, the construction is not idiomatic:  either seeing...or they viewed  should be replaced by:  either seeing...or viewing

A. the phrase  either seeing...or they viewed  does not following the proper idiom the author attempts to use:  either X or Y  where both X and Y are parallel

B. the phrase  either seeing Joshua's efforts as...or viewing Joshua's strategy...  is parallel

C. the phrase seeing  either ... or viewing  does not follow the idiom the author attempts to use:  either X or Y  where both X and Y are parallel

D. the second as an in the phrase  seeing Joshua’s efforts as a desperate and as an unprofessional manner  is unnecessary, wordy, and disruptive to the flow of the sentence

E. the phrase seeing  either ... or they viewed  does not follow the idiom the author attempts to use:  either X or Y  where both X and Y are parallel

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