AjiteshArun wrote:
gmat1393 wrote:
Hi
egmat GMATNinja AjiteshArunPlease suggest why option C is better than option A other than the idiom reason
Thanks
With the intention of is far more common than
with the intention to, but if we have to use something else, we could go with a meaning call.
1. Option A isn't very clear: it could mean either that
portfolios have an intention to turn in good results or that
asset allocators have an intention to turn in good results. We now have to ask ourselves whether (a) the
allocators want to turn in good results or (b)
portfolios are meant to turn in good results. For example:
The engineers created a software package with the intention to help the company's clients track resource utilization.It's better to associate the desired result with the software package (what is the purpose of the software package?) rather than the engineers who created that package. Otherwise, we are left with just "a software package" in general. And who knows, maybe the engineers were just doing their jobs, and weren't thinking about the company's clients at all while making the program.
The engineers created a software package intended to help the company's clients track resource utilization.2. A portfolio is just a bunch of financial assets. Some portfolios will give us good returns in both types of markets, but others won't. Therefore, it's probably better in this case to talk about asset allocators in general than to talk about portfolios in general.
With the intention... Asset allocators create portfolios.vs.
Asset allocators create portfolios intended to...3.
Intended is the better way to express this idea. To understand this, let's reword the modifier in C so that the usage of
intended is clear:
Asset allocators create portfolios that are intended to turn in good results in both “bull” and “bear” markets.This is very different from saying that something
intended (verb)
to do something. The
intended to we see in this case is a participle. It means that portfolios are
designed to achieve something, not that they have an "intention" to achieve something.
Option C is therefore better from a meaning perspective and is also shorter than the first option.
Hi
AjiteshArunI have 2 queries :
On A:
Asset allocators create portfolios, often in the form of mutual funds,
with the intention to turn in good results in both “bull” and “bear” markets.
(A) with the intention
(C) intended
As intention should refer to Subject ( some people) i.e. Asset allocators . A refers clearly AA did something with intention.with the intention doesn't refer to mutual funds or portfolios as both are non living things.
But in C it clearly wrongly refers to mutual funds or portfolios ( Verb +ED modifier)
Example: I used this sentence , long one, with the intention to give an example
I used this sentence, intended to give an example.
intended refers to sentence. But sentence can not have an intention. I have intention . So verb ed should not make sense.
Please correct
ii. in your explanation you considered intended refers to portfolio but i. Could not
intended wrongly refer to
mutual funds? Noun1, modifier1 noun2, verb ed modifer2. Verb+ ed modifier can refer to noun2 or noun1 .
Please suggest.
AjiteshArun