getgyan wrote:
According to a 2009 Prudential survey, 37 percent of people think that Medicare will cover their long-term care costs but it won‘t.
A. 37 percent of people think that Medicare will cover their long- term healthcare costs but it won‘t.
B. 37 percent of people think that Medicare will cover their long-term healthcare costs and it won‘t.
C. 37 percent of people think Medicare would cover their long-term healthcare costs but it won‘t.
D. 37 percent of people think that Medicare will cover their long-term healthcare costs but they won‘t.
E. 37 percent of people are thinking that Medicare will be covering their long-term healthcare costs but it won‘t.
Meaning :
According to survey, 37% people think that, Mcare will cover cost but in reality Mcare won't cover cost.
Split 1# 37 percent of people are thinking Vs 37 percent of people think
Surely, present continuous tense is wrong since it is not on going action. Hence Option E is out.
Split 2 # "37 percent of people think that Medicare " Vs "37 percent of people think Medicare"
We need "that" relative pronoun to refer back " what people think". Hence Option Without that is not appropriate. Option C is out.
Split 3 # "it won‘t." Vs "They Won't"
Logically this part talks about medicare singular noun, hence Singular pronoun "it" is correct. Option D is out
Split 4 # "and it won't" Vs "but it won't"
Second part presents contradiction between what people thought and what is the reality. Hence But is better.
Also when we put and, it create illogical meaning .
that
Medicare will cover their long-term healthcare costs and it
won‘tPeople cannot think two contradictory things about medicare at same time.
Hence Option B is incorrect
After POE, option A is correct