thanks! it’s clear now.. BTW I am not a man 😛

any decision made within 10 secs after reading is almost always wrong 🙂

thanks for the explanation.

I figured it out. I am able to visualise the question stem now. 🙂

This might not totally related to the question asked above, but clarifying whether my understanding is correct?

1. if x intercept of a line is zero – that means the line passes thru the origin and nothing can be deduced about its slope (+ve or -ve)
2. if y intercept of a line is zero – that means the line passes thru the origin and nothing can be deduced about its slope (+ve or -ve)

See the questions under “Parallelism” and “Tenses” from the OG’s provided by the CV team. You should be able to find examples.

Is my POE correct for options other than D?

How do I spent less time eliminating the wrong options?

“It’s” in C refer to company I think

A is incorrect since the opening modifier is “In their latest press release,” should modify something plural where as “the company’s new management ” in A is singular.

Is the answer C?

here in this particular question the article “the” makes it quite obvious that the “ing” is a gerund and not acting as a verb ( the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.)

Generally, I have noticed that a helping to-be verb (is/are/have been/had been etc) is accompanied whenever the “ing” form is used a verb. For parallelism see the marker word “and” and try to figure out whether the marker is separating two nouns/noun phrases etc or clauses. If it is separating a verb-ing then there must be a to-be helping verb in the sentence.

whenever there are “two” things that are you want to compare use “between X and Y”, keeping this in mind it should be “I always fail to distinguish between the two”

Hope it helps 🙂

IMO E.

… elected to retire early rather than (to) face is parallel. Do not get confused by the gerunds as verbs in continuous tenses.  The “threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance” are two noun phrases here , hence “rising” is not a verb so it needed not be parallel.