Bunuel wrote:
Under the new corporate insurance policy, when an employer is charged for damages to a third party wholly or largely as a result of actions by an employee, he is entitled to recoup the amount of the damages.
(A) he is entitled to recoup
(B) the employer is entitled to recoup
(C) he or she is entitled to recoup
(D) he is entitled to recoup for
(E) the employer is entitled to recoup for
As per the
e-GMAT vouched 3 step process
Step1: Read the sentence and understand the meaningAs per some new insurance policy , the employer is charged for some actions which the employee has performed and thus employer is eligible to recover the money from the Employee.
Step 2: Find the Errors under 7 headers as follows Mnemonics to remember these
SVPMPIMO or
IMPACTS(as per
MGMAT)
(i) SV- Subject Verb Agreement : Employer-Charged (correct SV Pair) employee-performed (correct SV pair) - hence no Subject Verb pair error. Each subjecthas a unique verb matching in number with its subject
(ii) Verb Tense - Employer's action is correctly in present tense while employee action performed earlier is correctly in past tense. So no verb tense error here either
(iii)Pronoun- The pronoun here is ambiguos and it incorrectly seems to have the employee as its antecedent. This needs to be coorected in the correct answer choice.
(iv) Modifier: There is no explicit use of modiefiers here in this sentence.
(v) Parallelism: There are no parallel lists either which need to be compared
(vi) Idioms: recoup has been used correctly in the sentence. We need to retain it as is in the correct answer
(vii) Others: There is a change in meaning because of incorrect pronoun reference. The meaning needs to be corrected by correecting the pronun error
Step 3 : Process of Elimination Bunuel wrote:
(A) he is entitled to recoup
This is clearly incorrect as discussed above
Bunuel wrote:
(B) the employer is entitled to recoup
This corrects the pronoun-antecedent error and correctly refers to the employer. The answer choice is promising and needs to be kept until we find an answer which conveys the same in a better way
Bunuel wrote:
(C) he or she is entitled to recoup
Pronoun error same as in choice A
Bunuel wrote:
(D) he is entitled to recoup for
Again, the same pronoun error same as in choice A
Bunuel wrote:
(E) the employer is entitled to recoup for
Although it corrects the pronoun error but introduces unidiomatic usage of
recoup for.
See the following 2 versions of the sentence.
1. The employer is entitled to recover/recoup the amount -(Correct version)
2. The employer is entitled to
recover/recoup for the amount - (incorrect usage)
Hence, for the above reasons we have B as our correct answer