Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil int

I dont understand why in answer C “oil reserves are exhausted” isnt making reference to the world’s oil reserve. It could be meaning that the fund will be use when all the oil reserves are exhausted and not when the state’s oil reserve is exhausted

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this is a low quality question, C cannot be the answer, it must be A, because C refers to "oil reserves" that could be any ones oil reserves, not alaskas oil reserves.

the person who wrote this question is clearly incompetent,

You are correct, A should be the correct answer, as C distorts the meaning.
This is a poor quality question and should be retired.

Hi VeritasKarishma AjiteshArun Can you please help me why option A is incorrect , i see many people explained that its is ambigious but the referent to its can be Alaska or state (cant be state's economy cuz it doesn't make sense to say economies' oil reserves) , and both state and alaska makes perfect sense .So how can there be ambiguity.

Okay. I get why A is wrong, A suggets that the deposits were intended to sustain the economu through tough periods, whereas, common logic suggets, deposits were to create a fund, and that fund was intnded to help sustain the economy. It's subtle, but, with modifier acts as a verb-ing modifier, thus modifies deposits, and thus, is wrong. I hope you get the overall structural flow in A. C is crisp and perfect.

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Hi Gaurav2896,

With the intention to may not be correct (with the intention of is far more common). You may also want to solve this question and go through this post.
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(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves
it's creates ambigious meaning since it intends as though state's economy is providing all the oil reserves

(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
they used in the passage is signalling towards the state's economy which is not the case

(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
The meaning is perfect , the sentence consice therefore let us hang on to it

(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
Similar reasoning as A

(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
Wordy akward and it doesn't convey the intended meaning

Therefore IMO C

This is how we use "with the intention to ..."

Many countries have also introduced new mining laws with the intention to unlock investment and kick-start exploration.
"unlocking investment" is the intention and action of many countries, not "new mining laws".

Look at our sentence:

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the ...

Here, "sustain the economy" will be the action of the fund, not Alaska.

Change it to:

The current Alaskan Govt regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to support the economy later ...

Here, it would be acceptable because the intent of the sentence is that the current Alaskan Govt hopes to support the economy later.
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