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01 Nov 2020, 00:38
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By offering personalized customer service options and an array of new products, such as inexpensive, high-powered processors, the new personal computing company has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced them to lower their prices.
A. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced them
B. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also induced them
C. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced these companies
D. not only has taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also these companies have been induced
E. not only took customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also has induced them
A. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced them
B. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also induced them
C. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced these companies
D. not only has taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also these companies have been induced
E. not only took customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also has induced them
01 Nov 2020, 00:50
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In the original sentence, the only error is the use of pronoun "them" at the last of the underlined part. This pronoun introduces ambiguity in the sentence: whether them is pointing to companies or to customers. Yet we know that the companies would lower prices, not the customers. Let's look for an option that corrects this error and introduces no new error.
A - Eliminate for the meaning error.
B - Error is not corrected. Eliminate.
C - Error has been resolved. Let's keep.
D - This removes the pronoun error. But hold on. The part after "but" has a new subject altogether. We did not expect that.
E - Error is not corrected. Eliminate.
Therefore, it is not difficult to choose option C for an answer. Option D is both grammatically and meaning-wise incorrect.
A - Eliminate for the meaning error.
B - Error is not corrected. Eliminate.
C - Error has been resolved. Let's keep.
D - This removes the pronoun error. But hold on. The part after "but" has a new subject altogether. We did not expect that.
E - Error is not corrected. Eliminate.
Therefore, it is not difficult to choose option C for an answer. Option D is both grammatically and meaning-wise incorrect.
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01 Nov 2020, 07:31
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By offering personalized customer service options and an array of new products, such as inexpensive, high-powered processors, the new personal computing company has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced them to lower their prices.
A. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced them
them has not clear referent
B. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also induced them
Same as A.
C. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced these companies
Parallel + companies are clear.
D. not only has taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also these companies have been induced
Not parallel. not only verb + but also these..
E. not only took customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also has induced them
Not parallel. not only took + but it has also has.. took and has are different tenses. Also unclear referent to 'them'
A. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced them
them has not clear referent
B. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also induced them
Same as A.
C. has not only taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also induced these companies
Parallel + companies are clear.
D. not only has taken customers from competing personal computing companies but also these companies have been induced
Not parallel. not only verb + but also these..
E. not only took customers from competing personal computing companies, but it also has induced them
Not parallel. not only took + but it has also has.. took and has are different tenses. Also unclear referent to 'them'
