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Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolled in lower- end insurance plans imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend less time with each.

a). imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
b). imposing stricter limits on medical services , requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
c). that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend
d). that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, and spending
e). that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending


Although this question has been discussed several times before, I am still posting because I do not agree with the vox populi.

I think E should be the correct answer because In A and B, "that" is missing. In C and D, the act of "imposition" takes two immediate effects: see more patient and spend less time. E uses "requiring" and "spending" as subordinate of main verb "imposition" and hence should be the answer.



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Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolled in lower- end insurance plans imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend less time with each.

a). imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend -->imposing ... and requiring ... are the two parallel participle phrases correctly modifying for plans. And one more correct parallel structure: require doctor to see ... and spend...--> the best
b). imposing stricter limits on medical services , requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending --> 2 paralleled participle phrases: imposing ..., requiring ... are correct because they appropriately modify for plans. However, the last paralleled complement spending ... will wrongly modify for plans. Plans can't spend, just doctors spend less time for each of their patients
c). that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend -->require and spend here in this structure are both verbs for union members, wrongly distorting the original meaning
d). that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, and spending -->this structure can be summarized as: union members are less likely ... and spending ... --> spending placed here will distort the original meaning
e). that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending -->that impose ... services correctly modifies for plans, requiring doctors ... more patients is also correctly placed to modify for plans. However, the 2nd participle phrase spending ... with each is not correctly placed here (mentioned error in B)
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D comes closest, IMO.
If you look at the meaning of the sentence, "impose" and "require" should be parallel. "spending, etc" part should modify "doctors". I dont like "and" before "spending", though.

E implies that the subject of "spending" is "insurance plans", which does not make sense.

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Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolled in lower- end insurance plans imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend less time with each.

a). imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
b). imposing stricter limits on medical services , requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
c). that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend
d). that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, and spending
e). that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending


Although this question has been discussed several times before, I am still posting because I do not agree with the vox populi.

I think E should be the correct answer because In A and B, "that" is missing. In C and D, the act of "imposition" takes two immediate effects: see more patient and spend less time. E uses "requiring" and "spending" as subordinate of main verb "imposition" and hence should be the answer.
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IMO E

It makes use of SUPERFICIAL parallelism.
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D comes closest, IMO.
If you look at the meaning of the sentence, "impose" and "require" should be parallel. "spending, etc" part should modify "doctors". I dont like "and" before "spending", though.

E implies that the subject of "spending" is "insurance plans", which does not make sense.

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Among lower- paid workers, union members are less likely than non union members to be enrolled in lower- end insurance plans imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend less time with each.

a). imposing stricter limits on medical services and requiring doctors to see more patients, and spend
b). imposing stricter limits on medical services , requiring doctors to see more patients, and spending
c). that impose stricter limits on medical services, require doctors to see more patients, and spend
d). that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, and spending
e). that impose stricter limits on medical services, requiring doctors to see more patients and spending


Although this question has been discussed several times before, I am still posting because I do not agree with the vox populi.

I think E should be the correct answer because In A and B, "that" is missing. In C and D, the act of "imposition" takes two immediate effects: see more patient and spend less time. E uses "requiring" and "spending" as subordinate of main verb "imposition" and hence should be the answer.
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If this question tested modifier and parallelism, test maker would not add "and" before "spending" in D intentionally. Whereas E is flawless.
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If this question tested modifier and parallelism, test maker would not add "and" before "spending" in D intentionally. Whereas E is flawless.
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In E, who do you think is "spending"? E implies that it is "insurance plans" which is a nonsense.
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Whatever the case, to see more patients, and spend less time with each are verbs of doctors, so they must be in the parallel structure: to see .. and spend ... after doctors, so B, D and E are definitely flawed. C, as I said, distorts the original meaning
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can anyone suggest how to approach superficial parallelism questions?
I am making most of the errors in this particular concept.

Thanks in advance!!
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IMO 'D' is correct because "insurance plans" impose ... and require ...

spending - is modifying "doctors", addition of "ing" to spend clearly indicates that, and the //ism of the overall sentence is maintained in option 'D'



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