mogurf21 wrote:
While they protect employees from
financial ruin, give customers
peace of mind, and encourage safety, corporate liability insurance
policies also provide cost certainty for companies that
purchase it,
and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk, that make it easier
for firms to recruit top personnel.
A. purchase it, and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk,
that make
B. purchase it, and an increasingly well-publicized perk, are
makers of
C. purchase it and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk
that are making
D. purchase it and an increasingly well-publicized perk, for
making
E. purchase it and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk,
make
OA
Here's my question, I went with A under the assumption that we have a list that maintains parallelism in the following way:
"for companies
that...X and...
that Y"
Apparently the second "that" is extraneous and that is therefore incorrect. Is there something I'm missing here, are words such as "that" copied over in some way and therefore no longer needed?
Hi, here it is about the logic of sentence rather than the grammatical construction:
certainty for companies that
purchase it,
and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk, that make it easier
for firms to recruit top personnel.
removing the apposition :
certainty for companies that purchase it and that make it easier
for firms to recruit top personnel.
implying that the companies make it easier for the insurance to recruit personnel. You are looking at the wrong parallelism. We want to make the underlined part parallel to
insurance:
a)provide cost certainty for companies that purchase it
b) make it easier for company to....