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Commissioner Wallace claims that he always has been and always will be a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.


(A) Commissioner Wallace claims that he always has been and always will be a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

(B) Commissioner Wallace claims that he always has and always will be a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

(C) Commissioner Wallace claims that he will always be a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

(D) Always having been a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, Commissioner Wallace claims that he will always continue to be so.

(E) Commissioner Wallace has always been a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and claims that he will always be.




KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:



In this sentence, the complete phrase comes at the end and the ellipses precede it: Commissioner Wallace claims that he always has been [a member of the ACLU] and [that he] always will be a member of the ACLU. The brackets mark the ellipses, and the fact that the sentence is grammatically correct even with the omitted material indicates that the ellipses are used correctly. Choices (B) and (C) take out too much. (B) fails because always has [a member of the ACLU] and always will be a member doesn't work; the first verb needs to be complete and read always has been. (C) takes out the first verb completely but, since always has been and always will be express different ideas, both verbs are necessary. (D) and (E) play with the order of the sentence and both create wordier and more awkward options than (A), the correct answer.

An 800 test taker puts the omitted pieces back into the sentence to see if the abbreviated version is correct, as in the explanations above. This is an effective strategy for dealing with ellipsis questions.
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