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GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Along with fighting fires and providing emergency services such as

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rohan2345 wrote:

A.Along with fighting fires and providing emergency services such as medical treatment, firefighters’ responsibilities are inspecting buildings and providing-Incorrect.
Couple of problems with this choice. Firstly it should be firefighters’ responsibilities include. Secondly there is a problem of superficial parallelism. The –ing phrase in the non underlined portion provides additional information about firefighters’ responsibility. Changing the sentence to the superficially parallel version as in this sentence would change the fundamental meaning of the sentence. This version gives all the activities equal emphasis, instead of making the last two activities of preventing crises rather than merely responding to them subordinate to the main activity Inspecting and Providing.


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