Banking regulators have seized a savings bank in Georgia and

Question

15. Banking regulators have seized a savings bank in Georgia and charged that the institution  both used deceptive lending and business practices and it misled  its stockholders.

A) no change

B) both used both deceptive lending and business practices and that it
 misled

C) used both deceptive lending and business practices, misleading 

D) used deceptive both lending and business practices, and misled

E) both used deceptive lending and business practices and misled

selene · Answer

^ C ^

for ||lism

Banking regulators have seized a savings bank in Georgia and charged that the institution used  both   deceptive lending   and   business practices , misleading its stockholders.

gmat_crack · Answer

C for correct use of || lism and particple pharase

g2formba · Answer

C is the best answer. both clearly inludes two groups - decptive landing and business practice. 

On closer inspection, I am not very confident with C.

jlui4477 · Answer

I picked C also. But OA is E.

It says that there are parallelism errors with the correlatives "both ... and" in choices A and B. 

Choice C, though gramatically correct, changes the meaning of the original sentence slightly.

Choice D awkwardly separates the adjective "deceptive" from the word it modifies.

Can anyone explain further on why C is wrong?

gmatacer · Answer

One can argue on the fact that ".... business practices, misleading ..." in C means business practices are misleading stakeholders and not institutions! and "A" maintains complete harmony, so A is the correct answer.

ywilfred · Answer

A,B,E - 'both used' is not correct. 'used both' is better.
D - awkward sentence construction

C is the best choice. 'used both ... ' is correct, and misleading seperates it from an item that the company is charged for

Professor · Answer

while choosing C, i didnot feel 100% confidence on C cuz i was looking for correct use of "both ....and". yes, E correctly does this. E also misses the coma after practices. the sentence looks like as under:

15. Banking regulators have seized a savings bank in Georgia and charged that the institution both   used deceptive lending and business practices   ,    and    misled

M8 · Answer

E it is. Look 

Banking regulators have seized a savings bank in Georgia and charged  that the institution   both used  deceptive lending and business practices  and misled  its stockholders.

IIism in 'C' confusing you. But 'misleading' after the comma is not appropriate here.
IIism in 'E' better fits the sentence.

2 Professor we do not need comma before and in this case.

mehtalalit · Answer

E seems Ok because the word both refers to 'L and B practices' and misleading. 

C seems gramatically correct but in C misleading modifies the practices and the word both does not refer to misleading.

So, I go for E

Banking regulators have seized a savings bank in Georgia and

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