gaurav90 wrote:
Lucky2783 wrote:
I think we all know A, B ,C are out of obvious reasons . let me try to demystify the option D and E .
Option D has no issue with modifier but it has issue with the use of 'had contributed' which suggests that recent study is about some past event.
Ideally it should refer to the current time .
D. A recent study of American workers, citing overcomplexity, increasing mobility of workers between companies, and poor financial planning, has estimated that less than half of eligible American workers had contributed the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans.
Option E has right tense and modifier.
Answer E
E. Citing overcomplexity, increasing mobility of workers between companies, and poor financial planning, a recent study has estimated that less than half of eligible American workers contribute the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans.
Can you tell me what are the obvious reasons for A, B, and C? I think I missed them.
As for D, another minor nitpick is the phrase "a recent study
of American workers". The bold part is additional and not justified. For all I know, the study could have been about American labor revolution (or something).
PS. this sentence took me about 3min to correct. I got it right, but 3 minutes!
A recent study has cited overcomplexity, increasing worker mobility between companies, and poor financial planning in estimating that less than half of eligible American workers had contributed the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans.A. A recent study has cited overcomplexity, increasing worker mobility between companies, and poor financial planning in estimating that less than half of eligible American workers
had contributed the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans.
beside the wrong tense , the sentence has meaning issue.
what is the purpose of the study ? to cite X,Y and Z or to estimate that less than half ... ?
the purpose is to estimate , so citing X,Y and Z should work as modifier modifying the study.
B. Overcomplexity, increasing worker mobility between companies, and poor financial planning
have been cited by a recent study that
estimated that over half of eligible American workers
do not contribute the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans.
--beside the usage of wrong tense as highlighted , this sentence speaks off the 2 functions of study 1) to cite overcomplexity ... and estimation which is not the intended
meaning .
C. Citing overcomplexity, increasing mobility of workers between companies, and poor financial planning, less than half of eligible American workers had contributed the maximum amount to their employer-offered retirement plans, a recent study estimates.
--This just distorts the meaning of the sentence as citing..increasing...poor financial planning are modifying ' American workers' rather than the study.
by rule of thumb we should try to keep the modifiers close to the thing that it intend to modify.
Hope i make sense here !!