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13 Jan 2022, 11:38
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Hi experts,
In ans option B, cant pledging and keeping go parallel. How did the officials reached a revised agreement by pledging X and keeping Y
Whereas in C it's saying they revised agreement by pledging to enforce X and to keep Y
Can you please elaborate on this. I am not getting exactly why B is wrong.
Thanks in advance
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In ans option B, cant pledging and keeping go parallel. How did the officials reached a revised agreement by pledging X and keeping Y
Whereas in C it's saying they revised agreement by pledging to enforce X and to keep Y
Can you please elaborate on this. I am not getting exactly why B is wrong.
Thanks in advance
EducationAisle
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13 Jan 2022, 23:01
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Hi pratishtha1210,
We should consider the meaning as well. The modifier after the comma (pledging...) gives us more information about "officials reached a revised agreement with the International Monetary Fund". In other words, it tells us what that agreement involved. Here's option C:
1. ... officials reached a revised agreement with the International Monetary Fund, pledging to enforce substantially greater budget discipline than originally promised and to keep inflation below ten percent
This tells us that they promised to do two things. If we try to look at pledging and keeping as being parallel, it'd look like this (option B):
2. ... officials reached a revised agreement with the International Monetary Fund, pledging the enforcement of substantially greater budget discipline than originally promised and keeping inflation below the ten percent figure
But if we say "X reached an agreement with Y, keeping inflation below Z", it sounds as if the act of reaching an agreement alone was enough to get to Z. It's clearly not that easy to keep inflation in check (as many central banks are finding out
), so that's not the meaning we want. Instead, we should go for "X reached an agreement with Y, promising to do Z". 
14 Jan 2022, 06:10
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pratishtha1210
Hello pratishtha1210,
We hope this finds you well.
Having gone through the question and your query, we believe we can resolve your doubt.
In this sentence, the "enforce" and "keep" verbs are the two actions that the officials pledged to do; as such, it is these two that must be parallel; remember, two elements should only be parallel if they play the same role in the sentence.
If "keeping" is made parallel with "pledging" the meaning we get is that by reaching a revised agreement with the International Monetary Fund, officials both pledged to enforce substantially greater budget discipline and, practically, kept inflation below ten percent.
We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team
