At Tuesday's press conference Ms. Franco,
who headed her country's antiterrorism committee for eight years, criticized airlines for simply banning items that had already been used in prior hijacking attempts without making a significant effort or anticipating the means of future attempts.
A. who headed her country's antiterrorism committee for eight years, criticized airlines for simply banning items that had already been used in prior hijacking attempts without making a significant effort or anticipating - illogical meaning- without making a significant effort or anticipating-- these are two separate actions -- what the sentence intends to say is that without making a significant effort to anticipate;
usage of past perfect seems incorrect
B. the former head of her country's antiterrorism committee for eight years, criticized airlines that had banned items simply used in prior attempts at hijacking and had not made a significant effort to anticipate - 'former head for eight years' has a meaning problem - It's unclear whether she's spent eight years as the former head - that is, it's been 8 years since she quit - or whether, instead, she was the head for eight years before quitting ;
C. the former eight-year head of her country's antiterrorism committee, criticized airlines simply for banning items that had already been used in hijacking attempts and made no significant effort in anticipating- parallelism issue - criticized and made -- illogical meaning ; the former eight-year head seems awkward
D. who headed her country's antiterrorism committee for eight years, criticized airlines for simply banning items used in prior hijacking attempts and making no significant effort to anticipate - Correct
E. who had for eight years headed her country's antiterrorism committee, criticizing airlines that had simply banned items already used in previous hijacking attempts, made no significant effort at anticipating - illogical meaning - Ms. Franco made no significant effort is illogical;
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Isn't the usage of past perfect tense in A,B,C and E redundant? In A,B and E, prior and previous have been used as a time marker and even in case of C(without any such marker) is clear.
2. Also, in B "airlines that had banned items" or in E "airlines that had simply banned items"
is the meaning change acceptable?
The original sentence talks about airlines in general, whereas these sentences talk about only those airlines that banned items?AjiteshArun ,
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Answer D
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