MGMAT Strategy Guide Q re: action nouns vs. simple gerunds

[hariwon]

A quick questions while I was going through the MGMAT strategy guide (pg. 218, #17)

The network security team is responsible for detecting new viruses AND the creation of the software patches to block those viruses.

The answer for the correct parallelism is:

The network security team is responsible for the detection of new viruses AND the creation of the software patches to block those viruses.

Can I change "the creation" to "CREATING" and still preserve the parallelism?

[tim]

yes, that would work just fine as well..

[ani.baheti]

So I can then also correct the sentence by saying -

The network security team is responsible for detecting new viruses and for creating software patches to block those viruses.

Please correct me if I am wrong!

[tim]

That would work. You could ALSO remove the second "for" and still have a correct sentence.