Among lower-paid workers, union members are less likely than nonunion members to be enrolled in lower-end insurance plans that impose stricter limits on medical services and require doctors to see more patients, spending less time with each.
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ziyi001 2014-05-05 09:56:12
you have to realize which verbs are supposed to be parallel and which aren't. there's no grammatical formula for this; you have to examine the meaning of the sentence to figure it out. - 'impose' (in whatever form) should be parallel to 'require' (again, in whatever form). these are two different things, both of which are aspects of the plan (= logical parallelism). - 'spend' should not be parallel to 'see', because it functions as a modifier of 'see' (it's a descriptive adverb modifier, detailing the way in which the doctors see the patients). choice a: 'spend' is ungrammatical here (it has no logical subject, and isn't parallel to anything). choice b: imposing, requiring, and spending are all parallel, implying that the insurance plans do all three of these things (an absurdity in the last case). choice c: all three verbs are parallel again, leading to the same absurdity witnessed in choice b. choice d (= correct): the parallelism follows the model outlined above: only the verbs that are logically parallel appear in parallel structure. choice e: 'requiring' and 'spending' are parallel in the modifier, implying that the plans themselves spend time with patients (in addition to requiring blah blah blah). this doesn't make sense.
tocbt 2013-11-06 20:52:18
关系对了。
停不下来的雕兄 2016-12-20 23:32:38
if there's a rule that can be articulated here, it's probably something along the lines of 'participial modifier applies to nearest action'.
HeyLevine 2016-12-04 16:22:07
in choice d, you could legitimately make a case that 'spending' could modify the entire huge clause about what insurance plans do, and is therefore ambiguous. however, that's the OA, so you've learned that this problem is ok in the eyes of the gmat people. if there's a rule that can be articulated here, it's probably something along the lines of 'participial modifier applies to nearest action'.
ChessyG 2016-11-26 10:17:18
P that impose...and require..., Spending...这里的Spending发起者应该是doctors,还算合理 语义的重要性！！
leahliulliu1 2016-11-18 00:05:21
spending的逻辑主语是doctor，作see的伴随状语
糯米团子QUQ 2016-11-04 15:08:40
spending修饰最近的动词see。
糯米团子QUQ 2016-11-04 15:04:59
you have to realize which verbs are supposed to be parallel and which aren't. there's no grammatical formula for this; you have to examine the meaning of the sentence to figure it out. - 'impose' (in whatever form) should be parallel to 'require' (again, in whatever form). these are two different things, both of which are aspects of the plan (= logical parallelism). - 'spend' should not be parallel to 'see', because it functions as a modifier of 'see' (it's a descriptive adverb modifier, detailing the way in which the doctors see the patients). choice a: 'spend' is ungrammatical here (it has no logical subject, and isn't parallel to anything). choice b: imposing, requiring, and spending are all parallel, implying that the insurance plans do all three of these things (an absurdity in the last case). choice c: all three verbs are parallel again, leading to the same absurdity witnessed in choice b. choice d (= correct): the parallelism follows the model outlined above: only the verbs that are logically parallel appear in parallel structure. choice e: 'requiring' and 'spending' are parallel in the modifier, implying that the plans themselves spend time with patients (in addition to requiring blah blah blah). this doesn't make sense.
yaomaczhang 2016-09-24 04:48:22
伴随状语
LaraNg 2016-09-18 23:05:29
正确，that引导定语从句修饰紧临的名词plans，说明plans的内容，impose and require是定语从 句的并列谓语，现在分词spending作see的伴随状语。
shisu0610041 2016-09-14 16:28:59
57楼的同学借用ron的解释已经很清楚了，'spend' should not be parallel to 'see', because it functions as a modifier of 'see' (it's a descriptive adverb modifier, detailing the way in which the doctors see the patients). impose和require主语都是plan，而在D选项中：require doctors to see more patients, spending less time with each。这个spending···是做伴随状语，修饰的是see,语意上也很符合逻辑：要求医生见更多的病人，对每个病人花少一点的时间（修饰的是see，既是see的一种方式）
xx2312345X 2016-06-14 16:40:59
有三个以上平行的时候，要注意逻辑含义上是否平行，C就不对
