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The attorney turned down the law firms offer of a position [#permalink]
 04 Jul 2004, 12:46
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Please explain your answer.
The attorney turned down the law firm’s offer of a position because she suspected that it was meant merely to fill an affirmative action quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting.
(A) quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting
(B) quota, having no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting
(C) quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion
(D) quota, not reflecting a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion
(E) quota, not one that reflected that minority hiring and eventual promotion was a commitment
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30 sec. C is best
A) non parallel
B) non parallel
D) introduce participial clause which acts as an adjective and cannot "reflect" anything per se
E) distorts the sentence by placing "was a commitment" at the end
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I'll go with C. "promoting' is not parallel here, so A & B are out. E is awkward. B does not make clear who it is that had no commitment......
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35 Seconds(excluding explanation)
(C) it is.
A) B) and E) are not parallel.
D) has a misplaced modifier. (it is the offer and not the quota that reflects the commitment)
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C is having proper parallel structure. i am also with C.
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C (60 s -for answering, 7 min for typing in the below stuff)
Firstly eliminated choices based on non-use of "promotion". Out of C, D and E
E is out because
(i)"one" should also be present in the main clause
(ii) that *** that construction is incorrect
almost everything with E is wrong!!
Now C & D. D is out because of tense mismatch in main clause and dependant clause.
Therefore C
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