Asset allocators create portfolios, often in the form of mutual funds, with the intention to turn in good results in both “bull” and “bear” markets.

(A) with the intention

(B) the intention of which is

(C) intended

(D) and intending

(E) so intended as


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IMO B

Asset allocators create portfolios, often in the form of mutual funds, with the intention to turn in good results in both “bull” and “bear” markets.
(A) with the intention --> with + Noun + to ... is unidiomatic. with + noun phrase or with + noun + that clause are better
(B) the intention of which is -->the best: which correctly modifies for mutual funds, the intention of which is grammatically correct
(C) intended --> intended is wrongly implied in passive for asset allocators
(D) and intending --> ungrammatical parallelism
(E) so intended as -->unidiomatic

Hi daagh,
thanks for explanations.

I would like to point out few examples of correct usage of the idiom "intention". The source is Oxford Dictionary:

intention / noun
[C,U] ~ (of doing sth) | ~ (to do sth) | ~ (that...) what you intend or plan to do; your aim:
I have no intention of going to the wedding.
* He has announced his intention to retire.
* It was not my intention that she should suffer.
* He left England with the intention of travelling in Africa.
* I have every intention of paying her back what I owe her.
* The original intention was to devote three months to the project.
* She's full of good intentions but they rarely work out.
* I did it with the best (of) intentions (= meaning to help), but I only succeeded in annoying them.

So I would disagree that the idiom "intention to" is wrong. I think you wanted to say that the way it is used in A is wrong.
For example if it were "Asset allocators create portfolios, often in the form of mutual funds, with the intention of turning in good results in both “bull” and “bear” markets." it would be perfectly fine as for me.

Please let me know your thoughts.

thanks.
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C is better than A because

"Intended" ... verb form... correctly modifies the verb "create".... whereas "with the intension" is wordy, and "intension" in the noun form. According to Manhattan advance sentence correction section convert nouns to verbs to make sentence precise and short

This is the key to OA. Nice explanation on the below link:
http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/pos ... tml#p28192

With the intention of is far more common than with the intention to, but if we have to use something else, we could go with a meaning call.

1. Option A isn't very clear: it could mean either that portfolios have an intention to turn in good results or that asset allocators have an intention to turn in good results. We now have to ask ourselves whether (a) the allocators want to turn in good results or (b) portfolios are meant to turn in good results. For example:

The engineers created a software package with the intention to help the company's clients track resource utilization.

It's better to associate the desired result with the software package (what is the purpose of the software package?) rather than the engineers who created that package. Otherwise, we are left with just "a software package" in general. And who knows, maybe the engineers were just doing their jobs, and weren't thinking about the company's clients at all while making the program.

The engineers created a software package intended to help the company's clients track resource utilization.

2. A portfolio is just a bunch of financial assets. Some portfolios will give us good returns in both types of markets, but others won't. Therefore, it's probably better in this case to talk about asset allocators in general than to talk about portfolios in general.

With the intention... Asset allocators create portfolios.
vs.
Asset allocators create portfolios intended to...

3. Intended is the better way to express this idea. To understand this, let's reword the modifier in C so that the usage of intended is clear:

Asset allocators create portfolios that are intended to turn in good results in both “bull” and “bear” markets.

This is very different from saying that something intended (verb) to do something. The intended to we see in this case is a participle. It means that portfolios are designed to achieve something, not that they have an "intention" to achieve something.

Option C is therefore better from a meaning perspective and is also shorter than the first option.
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I posted for this question one time, but I have not addressed the main points. so, I want to post again.

funds are intended to turn in (get) good result. this sentence is logic. here, the the funds will do "turn in" in the future or in hypothetical action.

but "intention of the funds" is not logic. only persons or animal with some conciousness can have "intention". this is terrible meaning error. choice b is gone.

look at choice a.

"with intention " can refer logically to "allocators". this is good. in the pattern " with intention to do/ with intention of doing", the agent performing to do/doing is the noun before "with". so, inhere allocators will perform "to turn in".

similarly, we can write "my intention to learn gmat is correct". in this pattern, we do not use "with" but "my" and the agent of "to do", a hypothetical future action is made clear.

we do not need to show the agent of hypothetical future action presented by "to do/doing" as in "intention to learn gmat is good". in this sentence, any one can be the agent of "to learn".

come back to choice a of our problem.

"to turn in..." refers to "allocators". this mean "allocators will turn in good results in bull and bear market". this make no sense. the fund not allocators should turn in good results . choice a is wrong

so, we do not care about idiom "intention to do" or "intention of doing" (both of which are in dictionary and we can not confirm which on is correct) . we know that choice a is not logic.

both choices a and b suffer logic error. if we know the idiom "intended to do" normally attached to a noun, we have a higher chance of realizing the meaning errors in choice a and b.

only now, i can realize the meaning error in choice a and b. before , I did not .

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