SC QUESTION: Common knowledge tells us that

by **Guest** Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:23 pm

Common knowledge tells us that sensible exercise and eating properly will result in better
health.
(A) eating properly will result
(B) proper diet resulted
(C) dieting will result
(D) proper diet results
(E) eating properly results

WHAT SHOULD BE THE ANSWER

by **Guest** Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:48 pm

Left with D and E.

Pick D (parallel)

by **Guest** Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:40 pm

by **Guest** Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:58 pm

Anonymous Wrote:OA?

Yes. Answer is D. But I'm still not convinced by the word "results", because the compound subject "sensible exercise and proper diet" should use "result". That is why I marked C as my answer. Please explain this.

thanks.

by **RonPurewal** Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:42 am

please post the source of this question. without knowing the source, we can't answer the question, and we'll eventually have to delete it.

thanks.

by **Guest** Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:41 pm

Source is Nova gmat preparation book.

thanks.

by **JonathanSchneider** Thu Nov 06, 2008 1:51 pm

I wouldn't stress too much about the particularities of non-GMAC problems. The reason we stress that you study from the OG is that these problems have undergone intense scrutiny from the GMAC board before being used on actual tests. Questions from other sources do not undergo the same scrutiny. As a result, you may end up splitting hairs that ought not be split.

Nevertheless, the answer is D. The word "and" here reuiqres parallelism. What must be parallel? The two modified nouns: "sensible exercise" and "proper diet."

Between B and D, go with D to keep your tenses consistent (no reason to switch to the past tense here).