SC - Rather X than Y(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#83....

the sentence given is
"The nation’s president would rather misappropriate foreign aid than actually attempting to help those in need."

Flash cards say the above is wrong....

Reason: "This question is about parallelism. Elements in theconstruction "rather X than Y" must be parallel."

Can someone please tell what is the correct idiom

a) X rather than Y
b) or Rather X than Y.

[goelmohit2002]

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

By mistake I posted on the GPrep folder.