Bill Clinton showed great sagacity and insight of economic

Two areas are being tested here. The idiom consider and the S-V number agreement.
-Consider -is a rare verb (comprise is another) that does not take an accompaniment of either a pronoun such as- due to-, or - as -or the infinitive - to be -. Hence Choices A and C are out.

On the contrary, the verb- regard -necessarily takes the preposition as every time it is used in the sense of consider or deem. Hence - regarded like - in D and simply- regarded- in E are wrong.

Now on to S-V agreement. What things entitle Clinton? Two things namely -great sagacity and insight of economic judgment – This object in effect becomes the subject of the sub-ordinate clause introduced by the conjunction that. So the sub-ordinate verbs have to be plural verbs; could entitle has no problems but the second verb has to be -that make - rather than - that makes. -

Can we now see why B is the only one that stands the idiom as well as S-V test, a point uniformly missed by most respondents. Kudos to muditadixit81 for hitting the bull’s eye
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B
1. Consider as/ to be is unidiomatic
2. a plural subject , marked by AND hence make is correct.

Main clause: Bill Clinton showed great sagacity and insight of economic judgment

Subordinate clause 1: that could entitle him to be considered one of the greatest post-war Presidents of the US
Subordinate clause 2: that make his tenure the most prosperous era of the country.

clauses 1 and 2 are parallel.
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I am between A and C. I still like A the best. C just seems to wordy for me

Hey daagh,

Nice work on the explanation, but I'll suggest that you do them in the alternate order. Subject-verb agreement should be a pretty convenient decision point for you, particularly when the difference is between the last word of each answer choice:

makes
make
makes
make
makes

You know that you're making a singular/plural decision with "make(s" here, so let's look at what is doing the "making". It has to be the sagacity and insight - a compound, and therefore plural, subject. Your other options as nouns are:

Economic judgment (which is part of a modifier leading with "of", so it's not the subject)
Bill Clinton (but his other verb, "showed", is past-tense so it wouldn't match with "makes", and the compound noun is structured with "that" to be the new subject)

So we know that with a plural subject we need "make" to be the verb, and that gets us right down to B and D.

Now we have:

"considered one of the greatest"
"regarded like one of the greatest..."

"like" means "similar to", so the logic of sentence D is incorrect - he's not regarded "similar to" a great President or "as if he were" a great President, he's regarded as, or considered, a great President. Now that we're done with the major S-V error, the more minor idiomatic feel/meaning error is hopefully easier to spot.

Glad to help you
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Hello arya251294,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the correct construction here does not include a hidden "could" before the verb "make", as the meaning of the sentence is that Clinton's "great sagacity and insight of economic judgment" practically make his tenure the most prosperous era of the country.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team
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C it is. I really like A but I think "consider as" is unidiomatic.
A- Considered as is the incorrect idiom on the GMAT as it doesn't like the use of consider+as. In any case, its use is declining in contemporary English.
B- Incorrect because of the subject-verb disareement- "make" should be "makes".
D- "Regarded like" is incorrect
E- Regard should be followed by as.

Another tricky question. Guess C is incorrect because it uses the verb form "to be" twice which makes the sentence redundant.

I am still waiting for the OA. Does anybody know it?
I would also be for A, but I'm not 100% sure.

Bill Clinton showed great sagacity and insight of economic judgment that could entitle him to be considered as one of the greatest post-war Presidents of the US and that makes his tenure the most prosperous era of the country.

(A) him to be considered as one of the greatest post-war Presidents of the US, and that makes
(B) him to be considered one of the greatest post-war Presidents of the US, and that make
© him to be considered to be one of the greatest post-war Presidents of the US, and that makes
(D) him to be regarded like one of the greatest post-war Presidents of the US, and that make
(E) him to be regarded one among the greatest post-war Presidents of the US, and that makes

Usage of idioms considered __ and regarded as is tested here.
A, C, D, E are out for wrong idioms.
in B the idiom is correct and parallelism is maintained.
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I picked right answer, but I am trying to understand the structure of the question.

Can someone please point to the main clause , subordinate clause and the role of 'and' that make ...

'and' - coordinating conjunction joins a list or two main clauses.
Does that imply ... 'and' that make ..is a main clause ?

Thanks to all for really good explanations.

Considered as and considered to be are both wrong on the GMAT as per the OG explanations!!

Moreover , the SV error can easily be spotted in A,C,E
"great sagacity and insight of economic judgment"= that , will take a singular verb -make

So , B is correct.

Regarded like and regarded one are both un-idomatic...
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Is it like that could entitle and that [could] make?

Ohh now I get it, thanks a lot for the quick reply.
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