My answer is E.

I checked this question and there is a would in the end. Sometimes while copying a question from a source, the last word gets left out. It has already happened to me in these forums.

Ok!! reasons.

A is out because 'this' as Ritesh pointed out has no clear referrent
B WRONG. how can the fears of other countries by raised?
C WRONG. They has no clear referrent
D WRONG. "With fears raised that is wrong
E is concise and expresses the meaning effectively.

E is missing a verb. I think would needs to be there after E...

Without verb WOULD E is incomplete...

okdongdong, please make sure the choice E is complete...

A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half of its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market.
A. reserves and this raised fears of other countries that
- this has no clear referent...
B. reserves, which, as a result, raised fears of other countries that
- wrong use of restrictive clause...
C. reserves, as a result, they feared that other countries would
- wrong THEY, it would be better...
D. reserves, with fears raised that other countries would
- with clause, not effectively joining the main clause...
E. reserves, raising fears that other countries
- incomplete without WOULD..

Nice one, i didn't see that... perhaps that's the sign for me to go to bed !

Hi,

If you have boiled it down to between C and E then it should be easy.

"The panel" is singular. So we cant have C because the option uses "they" to refer to the panel.

Regards,
Dom.

How can it be C or E? They change the meaning, they indicate Swiss government has fears , but actually it is the other countries that have fears

A. reserves and this raised fears of other countries that >> run on sentence, "this" does not convey the meaning clearly,
B. reserves, which, as a result, raised fears of other countries that >> changing meaning++fear of Swiss government is correct
C. reserves, as a result, they feared that other countries would>>Swiss Gov. is singular
D. reserves, with fears raised that other countries would>>with fears stands awkward
E. reserves, raising fears that other countries >> correct modifier and meaning intact

Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half of its gold reserves, raising fears that other countries do the same and inundate the market.

E is the right answer.

A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half of its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market.

A Swiss government panel recommended X and this X resulted in Y.
or simply panel took x causing Y.

In given sentence, this is improperly used pronoun to refer the recommendation.
This pronoun also results in improper meaning.

In option B. reserves, which, as a result, raised fears of other countries that

Which refers to reserves instead of recommendation.
as a result is wordy and modifies which.

C. reserves, as a result, they feared that other countries would

as a result is wordy and modifies which.
they implies is absurd as it refers to reserves wrongly thereby introducing the meaning error.

D. reserves, with fears raised that other countries would

with construction after comma is improper and wrong modifier
fears raised is in passive voice instead of active voice as indicated in non underlined part of the sentence.

E. reserves, raising fears that other countries o

This sentence solves all the problems.
raising fears is the correct verb-ing modifier correctly modifying previous action(panel recommending sth) and presenting result of the previous action in correct tense, voice and construction.

[/quote] I think this solves ur pb

A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half of its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market.

A. reserves and this raised fears of other countries that
B. reserves, which, as a result, raised fears of other countries that
C. reserves, as a result, they feared that other countries would
D. reserves, with fears raised that other countries would
E. reserves, raising fears that other countries would
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Hi Experts, Could you please explain what's wrong with choice D in this question? Thanks!