Cross-scheduling software will allow the company both to allocate sale

Question

Cross-scheduling software will allow the company  both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent them  from competing internally for staffers by, for example, offering wage hikes at a particular locations.

A) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent them
B) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and prevent these stores
C) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent these stores
D) to both allocate salespeople to specific stores and prevent them
E) to both allocate salespeople to specific stores, preventing them

Kartikay22 · Answer

Cross-scheduling software will allow the company both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent them from competing internally for staffers by, for example, offering wage hikes at a particular locations.

Analysis :
- Parallelism Error - Both X and, Y : X and Y should be parallel 
- Pronoun Error :The pronoun "Them" should have a logical antecedent. In the sentence it seems like "them" refers to Salespeople.

A) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent them - Pronoun Error - Incorrect
B) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and prevent these stores - Parallelism error - Incorrect
C) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent these stores - Correct
D) to both allocate salespeople to specific stores and prevent them - Pronoun Error - Incorrect
E) to both allocate salespeople to specific stores, preventing them - The use of both is to mention 2 entities, here there is just one. - Incorrect.

NiftyNiffler · Answer

Cross-scheduling software will allow the company  both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent them  from competing internally for staffers by, for example, offering wage hikes at a particular locations.

A) both to allocate salespeople to specific stores and to prevent  them -- "them" has ambiguous referent (salespeople or stores) 
B)  both to allocate  salespeople to specific stores  and prevent  these stores  -- both X and Y parallelism is not maintained. 
C)  both to allocate  salespeople to specific stores  and to prevent  these stores  -- CORRECT, errors in A and B are rectified. 
D) to both allocate salespeople to specific stores and prevent  them -- same as A 
E) to both allocate salespeople to specific stores, preventing  them -- same as A

So, Answer is  C

mohinijasoriya · Answer

How is the meaning of the sentence logical if "them" refers to the stores? Please help me in understanding tge meaning

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DmitryFarber · Answer

mohinijasoriya

The intended meaning is that we are preventing the stores from competing internally with each other. ("No! Don't work downtown--come work for us!") We want to avoid the other interpretation, that salespeople are competing with each other.

MBAB123 · Answer

DmitryFarber , are A and D out only because of the pronoun ambiguity?

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