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Originally posted by sandalphon on 08 Nov 2005, 06:13.
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Warning that computers in the United States are not secure, the National Academy of Sciences has urged the nation to revamp computer security procedures, institute new emergency response teams, creating a special nongovernment organization to take charge of computer security planning.
(A) creating a special nongovernment organization to take
(B) creating a special nongovernment organization that takes
(C) creating a special nongovernment organization for taking
(D) and create a special nongovernment organization for taking
(E) and create a special nongovernment organization to take
(A) creating a special nongovernment organization to take
(B) creating a special nongovernment organization that takes
(C) creating a special nongovernment organization for taking
(D) and create a special nongovernment organization for taking
(E) and create a special nongovernment organization to take
01 Oct 2014, 09:06
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Its simple. According to the gmat whenever the sentence indicates intent we need to use the infinitive form to+verb not verb-ing.
For example
The investors sold their stock rapildy, causing panic
Here the sentence indicates no intent from the investors to create panic but their act of selling their stocks rapidly did in fact create panic.
Lets look at the inifinitive form now.
The investors sold their stocks rapidly to create panic
Here the sentence indicates intent from the investors. Here their intent was to create panic. But in this sentence we do not know if they were successful in creating panic or not. Just that they wanted to.
Hopes its clear.
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19 Mar 2014, 12:08
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Ok - this is a parallelism question, but you have to be careful to make sure you are looking at the correct elements to be made parallel.
This question is presenting a three item list that needs to be in this format to be correct "X, Y, and Z": to revamp..., institute..., and create. Note that with infinitive parallelism we can drop the "to" before the 2nd & 3rd items in the list. Interestingly, answer choices A, B, and C have an improper structure of "X, Y, Z" - no "and". We need an "and" somewhere in the list to have an actual sentence*. That eliminates A, B, and C without having to deal with participle vs. infinitive in the parallel structure.
Looking at D and E, there is an idiom choice (you could view it as a meaning choice) between "for taking" and "to take". Looking at the context of the sentence, we need to use "to take" to generate the proper meaning that the non-government organization (looks like the word "organization" was inadvertently left off choices D&E) will be the thing that actively "takes" charge.
KW
[*Quick note: We could use the participle "creating" and be grammatically correct with a structure of X and Y, participle. In this format the participle isn't part of the list by rather a modifier for the preceding clause. On this question, they don't provide the "X and Y, participle" format as an option and frankly if they did it would be grammatically correct but the meaning would be flawed.]
This question is presenting a three item list that needs to be in this format to be correct "X, Y, and Z": to revamp..., institute..., and create. Note that with infinitive parallelism we can drop the "to" before the 2nd & 3rd items in the list. Interestingly, answer choices A, B, and C have an improper structure of "X, Y, Z" - no "and". We need an "and" somewhere in the list to have an actual sentence*. That eliminates A, B, and C without having to deal with participle vs. infinitive in the parallel structure.
Looking at D and E, there is an idiom choice (you could view it as a meaning choice) between "for taking" and "to take". Looking at the context of the sentence, we need to use "to take" to generate the proper meaning that the non-government organization (looks like the word "organization" was inadvertently left off choices D&E) will be the thing that actively "takes" charge.
KW
[*Quick note: We could use the participle "creating" and be grammatically correct with a structure of X and Y, participle. In this format the participle isn't part of the list by rather a modifier for the preceding clause. On this question, they don't provide the "X and Y, participle" format as an option and frankly if they did it would be grammatically correct but the meaning would be flawed.]
