SC - Complex gerund(Manhattan Flash Card Doubt)

[goelmohit2002]

Hi All,

In the Manhattan SC flash cards available at:

http://www.manhattangmat.com/pdf/FlashC ... e_2009.pdf

page#96....

the sentence given is
"Alexander the Great remarked that conquering foreign states couldn’t compare
to the vanquishing of his enemies at home.."

Flash cards say the above is wrong....because "This question is about parallelism. Two items being compared to one another must be parallel. "Conquering," a
simple gerund, cannot be made parallel to "the vanquishing of," a complex gerund."

The same is corrected as

"Alexander the Great remarked that conquering foreign states couldn’t compare to vanquishing his enemies at home."

Can someone please tell what does Manhattan meant to say here ?

[goelmohit2002]

Can Moderator please move this to "General Verbal or Manhattan Strategy guide forum"...

By mistake I posted on the GPrep folder.