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25 Jun 2021, 05:30
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Critics of Welfare-to-Work programs argue that a policy tying entitlements to enrollment in such programs ignores the danger of welfare recipients displacing current workers, the need to invest in creating new jobs, the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only considers the net cash reduction in welfare spending.
A. the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only considers
B. and the effects of welfare cuts on small children, while only considering
C. and the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only consider
D. and the effects of welfare cuts in small children, only considering
E. the affects of welfare cuts on small children, and only consider
A. the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only considers
B. and the effects of welfare cuts on small children, while only considering
C. and the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only consider
D. and the effects of welfare cuts in small children, only considering
E. the affects of welfare cuts on small children, and only consider
27 Jun 2021, 03:45
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Critics of Welfare-to-Work programs argue that a policy tying entitlements to enrollment in such programs ignores the danger of welfare recipients displacing current workers, the need to invest in creating new jobs, the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only considers the net cash reduction in welfare spending.
A. the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only considers
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The first three items in the list of the sentence are nouns (the danger, the need, the effects) and last item is a verb (consider).
What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
In a list of 3 or more items, all the items should be the same part of speech (all nouns, all verbs, or all adjectives), and they should be logically parallel.
B. and the effects of welfare cuts on small children, while only considering
This answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question. By changing and only considers to while only considering, the corrected sentence turns the verb considering into part of a modifying phrase, so it is no longer required to be parallel to ignores.
By adding and, the corrected sentence creates a correctly constructed list of three parallel items (danger, need, and effects).
C. and the effects of welfare cuts on small children, and only consider
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question, by adding and before the effects of welfare cuts on small children, it is grammatically incorrect.
The plural verb consider does not agree with the singular subject a policy. Notice that by adding and before the effects of welfare cuts, the list no longer includes consider, which is now a verb to the subject policy and so must agree with it.
D. and the effects of welfare cuts in small children, only considering
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question, it is grammatically incorrect.
By changing and only considers to only considering, the corrected sentence turns the verb considering into part of a modifying phrase, so it is no longer required to be parallel to ignores. By adding and, it also creates a correctly constructed list of three parallel items (danger, need and effects).
However, by unnecessarily changing the preposition on to in, the corrected sentence creates an incorrect idiom. The correct idiom is the effects of welfare cuts on small children.
E. the affects of welfare cuts on small children, and only consider
Incorrect.
This answer choice repeats the Parallelism mistake in the original question. The first three items in the list of the sentence are nouns (the danger, the need, the affects) and last item is a verb (consider).
What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
In a list of 3 or more items, all the items should be the same part of speech (all nouns, all verbs, or all adjectives), and they should be logically parallel.
In addition, this answer choice introduces a change in meaning by replacing the word effects with affects.
Effect is a noun, close in meaning to result or consequence. In this sentence effects means the impacts of welfare cuts on small children.
Affect can either be a verb (to influence) or a noun meaning feeling or emotion. Its use as a noun in the corrected sentence is not logical, because welfare cuts do not have feelings.
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