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A large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble

B) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled from ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
C) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people make work and make trouble
D) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and makes trouble
E) a large praetorian bureaucracy filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people makes work and trouble

make(s) work/trouble doesn't provide a clear referent (in any of the given choices).
anyway, "Filled with" is correct.

E for me. ..praetorian bureaucracy... makes work and trouble.

good effort, mba.



a large praetorian bureaucracy, which is filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people, makes work and trouble

In this case E would have worked but its the component of bureaucracy like ambitious people make work and sycophantic people make trouble.
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IMO D is best
"filled with ambitious and is filled with often sycophantic people" is nothing but an "adjective" of "praetorian bureaucracy" which in turn "makes work and makes trouble"
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I guess it's E more coincise than D

:oops you are right boksana. Somehow, I read E as follows:
makes work and make trouble?!
I'm seeing things here :shock:
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a large praetorian bureaucracy, which is filled with ambitious and often sycophantic people, makes work and trouble

In this case E would have worked but its the component of bureaucracy like ambitious people make work and sycophantic people make trouble.


Ooops, I think I made reference mistake :oops: , I hope I will not do that on the test. Thank you Bhai for your explaination. :-D
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(D) is the OA.

"makes work and makes trouble" is correct and maintains parralelism,

"makes work and trouble" though concise, sounds awkward in the given context.



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