Hello again,
imSKR. I will chime in on each answer choice below, just as you have done.
imSKR wrote:
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Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
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(A) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
(B) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
attorney general accused the bank by xxxx – is not it wrong meaning ?
SO I rejected A,B
There is a key component to your simplified version that needs to be added back in. The attorney general accused the bank
of doing something, in this particular case
of engaging in deceptive business practices. The next part explains
how so, answering the question of how the bank purportedly engaged in deceptive business practices. In pared-down form, the AG accused the bank of doing something
by failing to honor its promise... That makes perfect sense. Choice (A) is clear and concise; choice (B) adds an unjustified
its and changes
failing to honor to an incorrect
failure of honoring. There is no context in which you would use the latter.
imSKR wrote:
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(C) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
Wrong meaning :
"In ___ing" means, essentially, "something happens during the process of ___ing
In is the wrong explanatory word, and yes, in this construct,
failure would at least be functional. The ending,
of keeping, just gives us another easy target, enough to see off this answer choice.
imSKR wrote:
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(D) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
(E) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
Attorney accused the bank because of bank failure xxx and prefer E over D.
Can you help me to reject E and choose A without idiom concept.
AndrewN AjiteshArun egmatWhenever you encounter extra words, you need to have a reason to justify their presence, and even without invoking idioms here, you should be questioning why the first
its is absolutely necessary to convey the vital meaning of the sentence. Is there no better way to get to the nature of this accusal? Even
because it had failed would be better. Since you cannot negotiate what is on the screen, you might at least consider placing this option on a lower tier. And if
its promise... of keeping sounded off, then this would be one instance in which your ear would be guiding you in the right direction. All things considered, choice (E) incorporates a few suboptimal elements, parts that warrant a change, a hint that a better answer must exist somewhere else.
I hope that helps. Thank you again for drawing my attention to a new question (for me).
- Andrew