Bunuel wrote:
As more and more people invest their money in savings certificates or money-market funds in order to earn higher interest, they are abandoning traditional low-interest investment havens such as passbook accounts and life insurance policies.
(A) As more and more people invest their money
(B) While people have more and more been investing their money
(C) As money is more and more invested by people
(D) More and more, when investors put their money
(E) While, more and more, investors have been putting their money
Project SC Butler: Day 37 Sentence Correction (SC2)
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION• A, the best choice, most precisely establishes that the action of the main clause is a consequence
of the action of the introductory clause, and that the two actions are continuing contemporaneously.
•
While in B and E is less clear than
as because
while can indicate contrast or concession
rather than contemporaneity.
• The present perfect tense in these choices is also inappropriate; contemporaneous actions should be expressed
by verbs of the same tense.
• C contains an awkward use of the passive.
• B, C, D, and E alter the original meaning by changing
more and more from an adjectival to an awkwardly placed
adverbial phrase: that is,
more and more no longer modifies
people but loosely describes
the action of investing money in savings certificates.
That official explanation is thorough and good.
Prateekj05 posted the clearest and best answer. Kudos!
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