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Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

-> The subject is not linked to the verb "was". I will just look for the subject, agreed with the verb "was" from the answer choices.

POE:
1. Eliminate (A), (C), (E) automatically.
2.(B) uses the verb with past simple, while (D) with present perfect. Present perfect makes sense in the sentence to be correct? definetely not, thus, B is the answer as the sentence talks about something happened in the past, which doesn't affect now.

Official Explanation :

Choice A, awkward and imprecise, leaves one confused about what it was that happened during a period of wage and price controls-the revitalization of the Ford Motor Company or the sanctioning of a price increase.

Choice B, the best answer, clarifies the matter by making during. . . modify the government sanctioned.

Choice C, wordy and awkward, suffers from the same imprecision as choice A.

The present perfect has brought in D is inappropriate for action completed well in the past, and wages, which should modify control, is not idiomatic.

In choice E, wages is again wrong, and E, contrary to intent, suggests that the government sanctioned a period of. . . controls rather than a special price increase.

Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

(A) Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls. - No referent/subject for the Dependent Clause [Bringing...].

(B) What brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wage and price controls. - The most concise and grammatically correct choice.

(C) That which brought the ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls. - "That which" is weird and redundant, and I would suspect that two back-to-back relative pronouns is a modifier error.

(D) What has brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wages and price controls. - Verb Tense error: simple past tense is used for general facts and definitions. The price increase had one effect, not a continual effect since WWII, i.e., it is not coming back perpetually. Parallelism: wages and price in comparison to wage and price

(E) To bring the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War, there was a special price increase during a period of wages and price controls that government sanctioned. - Pronoun Error: There has no antecedent, as there has to refer to a location or a location within a prepositional phrase. Same parallelism error as D.

Hello GMATNinja, egmat,

Please review my analysis and share your thoughts

(A) Bringing the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War (subject) was (verb) a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

The sentence doesn't have a correct meaning

(B) What brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wage and price controls.

(C) That which --> Usage is confusing brought the ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special governmentally sanctioned price increase during a period of wage and price controls.

(D) What has --> indicates present tense however should be past tense brought the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special price increase that the government sanctioned during a period of wages and price controls.

(E) To bring the Ford Motor Company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War, there was a special price increase during a period of wages and price controls that government sanctioned. --> Sentence construction is incorrect

Hello niyatisuri,

We hope this finds you well.

Your analysis here is broadly correct, but there is one point of correction; "has brought" is a present perfect tense verb form, not a simple present tense verb form; thus, what it actually implies is that the action has concluded, but continues to affect the present.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

IMO B.

Bringing is a passive construction and rest of the options changes meaning

Choice A... What is doing the "Bringing" No clear subject connected to the main verb "was".