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The task force is reviewing the companys hiring practices [#permalink]
 20 Jun 2005, 18:09
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The task force is reviewing the company’s hiring practices for the determination of whether they are meeting the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity.
(A) for the determination of whether they are meeting the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity
(B) for the determining of whether or not it meets the requirement set by the Office of Equal Opportunity
(C) for the determining of whether the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity are being met or not
(D) determining whether the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity are met
(E) to determine whether they meet the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity
Please explain why you picked an AC.
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E....looks concise....
Whether or not looks redundant
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In questions like this how do we decide between "to determine" and "for determining" ? Gerund v/s Infinitive....
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E is the right choice.
All the options are wordy....except E. E is concise and idiomatic.
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Any solid explanations on why AC A is wrong besides the fact that is sounds awful?
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"for (the) determination/determining" is bad idiom. "to determine" is correct. Eliminate A,B,C,D
In one second you can see that the answer is E.
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Can someone point out the gramatical flaw in AC A.
B, C are eliminated becuase of "whether or not". The "or not" is redudant.
Between A, D, and E, we can figure out that AC "E" sounds good to the ear. But are there any grammer errors in AC A and D?
In AC "A" meeting is used as a verb in the continuous tense. I guess this changes the meaning. "meeting" in this context is neither a gerund or a participle.
I'd be curious to know why A and D are wrong.
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the idiom is "to determine"
for determining is unidiomatic....
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Re: SC - Equal Opportunity [#permalink]
30 Jun 2005, 17:49
gmataquaguy wrote: The task force is reviewing the company’s hiring practices for the determination of whether they are meeting the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity.
(E) to determine whether they meet the requirements set by the Office of Equal Opportunity
we need supercat, paul and others to clearify in detail why A is not correct. but A clearly is not concise and clear.
. for determination is not correct, A is indirect.
. to determine is correct, E is direct.....
so E is better over A.
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A is wrong.
We need a plain PRESENT TENSE here not a PRESENT CONTINUOUS tense.
A says " task force is reviewing.... they are meeting the requirements".
Task force is in process of reviewing of What? Reviewing that the hiring practices (already set forth) meet the requirements (already set forth) of the EOU.
Infact A is weird construction " for the determination of "....
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My answer is E.
I was essentially looking for a choice that starts with "to", because the correct idiom for "the company’s hiring practices " is "to". D is wrong, because, it doesn't start with to.
A is wrong because they has no clear referent.
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OA is E.
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