aksh123456123456 wrote:
CrackVerbal Kindly post your answer explanation of the above question.
Let’s look at the logic of the sentence.
A recent court decision has qualified a 1998 ruling that workers cannot be laid off
if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will be safe, provided that their performance remains satisfactory.
The sentence says that if the workers have been given reason to believe that they will still have their jobs, they cannot be laid off. Here, very clearly, a condition and its consequences have been mentioned.
Let’s look at each option.
(A) if they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will
“have been given” is in the present perfect tense. This tense is used to say that something was done in the past, and this stands true even now. “they have been given reason to believe that their jobs will be safe” implies that this assurance was given in the past and still holds true today. The tense used accurately represents the situation.
(B) if they are given reason for believing that their jobs would still
The verb “are” implies that something is true right now. This usage implies that if the workers are given the assurance right now, then they cannot be laid off. This does not make any sense. Further, idiomatically, one would say that one is “given reason to believe.”
(C) having been given reason for believing that their jobs would
Logical analysis of the original sentence tells us that a condition has been presented. In this option, the conditional clause has been removed, and this changes the meaning of the sentence.
(D) having been given reason to believe their jobs to
Same as in Option C.
(E) given reason to believe that their jobs will still
Same as in Option C.
I hope this is clear.