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After Exeter Recycling reported dismal earnings for the fifth straight quarter, its Chairman announced that the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers, seen by many as unresponsive and incompetent, and in replacing them, choose younger and more nimble managers.
A) and in replacing them, choose younger
B) to be replacing them with younger
C) and replaced them with younger
D) to replace them with younger
E) and replace them with younger
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
AfterExeter Recycling reported dismal earnings for the fifth straight quarter [XYZ], its Chairman announced that the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers , seen by many as unresponsive and incompetent, and in replacing them, choose younger and more nimble managers.
→ You could eliminate the "After XYZ" part, too. Sometimes it is safer to keep both clauses and condense the one that has little to do with the question.
→ The underlined portion tests only the material after "announced that," so strike its Chairman announced that
→ The phrase seen by many as unresponsive and incompetent is an adjective (and an appositive) that describes current managers and that does not help us answer the question.
The sentence, stripped:
After XYZ, the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers, and in replacing them, choose younger and more nimble managers.
• meaning?
The Board of Directors planned to do two things:
(1) fire the current executive managers, and
(2) replace those current managers with younger managers.
• Issues?
→ Verb tenses (e.g., (C) uses replaced whereas (D) uses replace
→ Parallelism. The Board planned to do two things.
In the nonunderlined portion we have to fire. The verb in the second action must be parallel to either the infinitive to fire or the bare infinitive, fire. (The word to "distributes" or "carries over" to the second verb.
• Split #1: Parallelism
Option A pairs . . . to fire and in replacing. Those two verbs are not parallel.
→ Alternatively, you could argue that choose is the second of the Board's two actions and that to fire and [to] choose are parallel.
→ That construction is rhetorically flabby and unnecessarily wordy: the section action is to replace, not really to choose.
→ Compare A to E. No contest. (E) wins.
In option B, to fire and to be replacing them are not quite parallel.
This pairing may not be an automatic thumbs down from GMAC, but it suspicious and the option is not as good as E.
ELIMINATE options A and B
• Split #2: Verb tense and nonsensical meaning
In option C, we are told that the Board planned (1) to fire the current managers and (2) [to] replaced them.
Replaced is the wrong verb tense. We the bare infinitive.
ELIMINATE C
• Split #3: Improper sentence construction
Let's put option D into the shortened sentence:
After XYZ, the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers, [AND?] to replace them with younger and more nimble managers.
Option D is missing a conjunction such as and.
ELIMINATE D
By POE, the answer is E.
Option E is parallel:
. . . . the Board planned to fire and [to] replace
COMMENTARY
These answers range from good to excellent. Kudos to those who explained.
Have a good weekend.
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
• Strip and condense the sentence.
After
→ You could eliminate the "After XYZ" part, too. Sometimes it is safer to keep both clauses and condense the one that has little to do with the question.
→ The underlined portion tests only the material after "announced that," so strike its Chairman announced that
→ The phrase seen by many as unresponsive and incompetent is an adjective (and an appositive) that describes current managers and that does not help us answer the question.
The sentence, stripped:
After XYZ, the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers, and in replacing them, choose younger and more nimble managers.
• meaning?
The Board of Directors planned to do two things:
(1) fire the current executive managers, and
(2) replace those current managers with younger managers.
• Issues?
→ Verb tenses (e.g., (C) uses replaced whereas (D) uses replace
→ Parallelism. The Board planned to do two things.
In the nonunderlined portion we have to fire. The verb in the second action must be parallel to either the infinitive to fire or the bare infinitive, fire. (The word to "distributes" or "carries over" to the second verb.
• Split #1: Parallelism
Option A pairs . . . to fire and in replacing. Those two verbs are not parallel.
→ Alternatively, you could argue that choose is the second of the Board's two actions and that to fire and [to] choose are parallel.
→ That construction is rhetorically flabby and unnecessarily wordy: the section action is to replace, not really to choose.
→ Compare A to E. No contest. (E) wins.
In option B, to fire and to be replacing them are not quite parallel.
This pairing may not be an automatic thumbs down from GMAC, but it suspicious and the option is not as good as E.
ELIMINATE options A and B
• Split #2: Verb tense and nonsensical meaning
In option C, we are told that the Board planned (1) to fire the current managers and (2) [to] replaced them.
Replaced is the wrong verb tense. We the bare infinitive.
ELIMINATE C
• Split #3: Improper sentence construction
Let's put option D into the shortened sentence:
After XYZ, the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers, [AND?] to replace them with younger and more nimble managers.
Option D is missing a conjunction such as and.
ELIMINATE D
By POE, the answer is E.
Option E is parallel:
. . . . the Board planned to fire and [to] replace
COMMENTARY
These answers range from good to excellent. Kudos to those who explained.
Have a good weekend.
16 Sep 2020, 00:19
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After Exeter Recycling reported dismal earnings for the fifth straight quarter, its Chairman announced that the Board of Directors planned to fire the current executive managers, seen by many as unresponsive and incompetent, and in replacing them, choose younger and more nimble managers.
A) and in replacing them, choose younger
B) to be replacing them with younger
C) and replaced them with younger
D) to replace them with younger
E) and replace them with younger
Explanation:
A-Parallelism error,"Planned to fire..." &" in replacing..." not parallel.
B-Same as A."Planned to fire..." &" to be replacing..." not parallel.
C-Same as A."Planned to fire..." & "and replaced them" not parallel.
D-conjugation "and " is missing .Incorrect
E-Correct.Parallelism between "Planned to fire..." &"Planned to replace... parallel.
Hence E is the correct answer.
Regards,
Atul Pandey
A) and in replacing them, choose younger
B) to be replacing them with younger
C) and replaced them with younger
D) to replace them with younger
E) and replace them with younger
Explanation:
A-Parallelism error,"Planned to fire..." &" in replacing..." not parallel.
B-Same as A."Planned to fire..." &" to be replacing..." not parallel.
C-Same as A."Planned to fire..." & "and replaced them" not parallel.
D-conjugation "and " is missing .Incorrect
E-Correct.Parallelism between "Planned to fire..." &"Planned to replace... parallel.
Hence E is the correct answer.
Regards,
Atul Pandey
