MsMaayan wrote:
GMATNinja can you pls elaborate on this question?
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(A) Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
The first thing I notice is that "with" modifier. Does it make sense for Alaska to "deposit... with the intention?" Can a state have an intention? Seems questionable. I suppose the
people of the state could, but I don't love it.
Then there's the phrase, "economy after exhaustion." So there's a pre-exhaustion economy and a post-exhaustion economy? Again, seems questionable, but I'm not 100% convinced it's a concrete error.
Let's hold on to it for now, but the other options are going to have some pretty serious problems for me to choose this one.
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(B) Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves.
"The intention of which," jumps out here. What is "which" describing? The intention of the fund? The intention of the state? It's not totally clear.
And then there's the "they" towards the end. I don't see any plural noun that "they" could logically refer to here. So (B) is out.
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(C) Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
This seems pretty good. Here "intended" clearly describes the "fund," and it no longer seems as though it's the state of Alaska that's consciously intending to do something.
(C) also gets rid of the goofy phrase "economy after exhaustion." Instead, we're talking about the "economy after
oil reserves are exhausted." Much clearer.
Because this one cleans up the confusing meaning issues that cropped up in (A), we'll keep (C) and ditch (A).
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(D) Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves.
I don't like the phrase "exhausting its oil reserves." Who or what is doing the exhausting? It kind of sounds as though the fund is sustaining the state's economy after
the fund exhausts its reserves. That clearly makes no sense -- and at the very least, (D) is far murkier than (C). So (D) is out.
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(E) Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted.
Again, there's nothing for "they" to refer to here.
So (E) is gone, and (C) is our winner.
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