Having seen first-hand this recipe for disaster,
Roberta Henson wished to make clear that free trade is unfair and that poor nations should be liberated from the one-size-fits-all trading model, promoted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization.
The sentence means to convey that Roberta Henson has first-hand experience the one-size-fits-all trade practice by herself. She would like to state that the model promoted by leading multilateral organizations is unfair to poor nations.
Present perfect tense is rightly used for ‘first-hand experience’ because it happened before Roberta ‘wished’. Roberta intention is properly conveyed by ‘to make’ verb. Modifier phrases starting with ‘that’ are parallel and relates properly.
A. Roberta Henson wished to make clear that free trade is unfair and that poor nations should be liberated from the one-size-fits-all trading model, - CORRECT. As discussed above.
B. Roberta Henson wished to make clear that free trade is unfair and that poor nations should being liberated from the one-size-fits-all trading model, - WRONG. Using ‘being’ for future reference makes no sense.
C. free trade was called unfair by Roberta Henson, who wished to make clear that poor nations should be liberated from the one-size-fits-all trading model, - WRONG. Instead of using ‘Roberta Henson’ after starting ‘phrase + comma’ makes no sense. Using ‘who’ also adds to the problem of absence of main verb.
D. free trade was called unfair by Roberta Henson, who wished to make clear that poor nations should being liberated from the one-size-fits-all trading model, - WRONG. Same reasoning as option C.
E. free trade was called unfair by Roberta Henson, who wished to clarify that poor nations should be liberated from the one-size-fits-all trading model, - WRONG. Same reasoning as option C
Answer (A).
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