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25. In bourgeois culture, where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician, parents often make great sacrifices to put their children through secondary school and college.

(A) where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician
(B) where it is considered more noble to be a lawyer or a metaphysician than to run machines
(C) which consider that running machines is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician
(D) which considers it more noble to be a lawyer or a metaphysician than running machines
(E) considering it more noble being a lawyer or a metaphysician than to run a machine

Explain with reasoning plz.



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Guys I already know the ans, need expl. plz..... :!:
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I'd rather know the OA before i explain my reasoning. The reason why i like this approach is because it eliminates the chance of misleading people who are still trying to learn and brush up their skills from this site.

Most of the time, people go into detailed explanation only to find out their answer choice is wrong. In this case people who have read these wrong explanations may not be back in time to review the right explanation and discard the wrong ones they have read earlier. Why give people pages of gibberish to read if there is no confirmation of the OA? That's just my way of ensuring people read the right explanation.
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it is very interesting

It has to be A or B, in which is wrong in C,D & E

consider never takes to be
consider that is spooky too

It is a tough call between A & B, I will go with A, will wait for OA
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[quote="banerjeea_98"]25. In bourgeois culture, where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician, parents often make great sacrifices to put their children through secondary school and college.

(A) where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician
(B) where it is considered more noble to be a lawyer or a metaphysician than to run machines
(C) which consider that running machines is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician
(D) which considers it more noble to be a lawyer or a metaphysician than running machines
(E) considering it more noble being a lawyer or a metaphysician than to run a machine

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(A) running ....is less noble than to be .... I think being is better. no parallel
(C) which consider ....
(E) change the original meaning. It's not paretents' consideration.
(D) more noble to be ... than running .... no parallel.

OA please
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I would go with B

Narrowed down to A and B . But B sounds better.
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OA is "B"....I chose "A"....can anyone explain why A is wrong.....no OE.
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I think it is a parallel issue. to be with to be. The others are all non parallel.
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where it is considered that running a machine is less noble than to be a lawyer or a metaphysician

why do we use that in A? what is the use of it? it doesn't solve a purpose..
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(B)

Let us examine the stem after removing the underlined portion:

"In bourgeois culture, where it is considered (... ), parents often make great sacrifices to put their children through secondary school and college."

The emphasis of the stem is on something abstract and not a specific activity like running a machine or being a lawyer. No culture would have explicit notions about running a machine, but it would definitely have explicit notions on morality. What (A) is trying to convey is that the bourgeois culture has certain specific notions about people who run machines, which is wrong. What it wants to convey is that the culture considers manual labor less dignified than knowledge based profession. That's the reason why parents emphasize on their children attending educational institutions. This idea is aptly conveyed by (B)



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