Bunuel
Competition Mode Question
During the summer of 2008, an unemployed investment banker with over 25 years of experience named Joshua Persky made news by walking the streets of New York City's financial district in a suit with a sandwich board advertising his services. Many social commentators disagreed on the implications of this,
either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
(A) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
(B) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
(C) seeing either Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
(D) either seeing Joshua's efforts as a desperate and as an unprofessional manner to seek a job or viewing Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
(E) seeing either Joshua's efforts as a desperate and unprofessional manner to seek a job or they viewed Joshua's strategy as a savvy means to attract attention to an overly qualified individual.
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:
This question tests the idiom:
either X or Y where both X and Y are parallel.
In the original sentence, the construction is not idiomatic:
either seeing...or they viewed should be replaced by:
either seeing...or viewingA. the phrase
either seeing...or they viewed does not following the proper idiom the author attempts to use:
either X or Y where both X and Y are parallel
B. the phrase
either seeing Joshua's efforts as...or viewing Joshua's strategy... is parallel
C. the phrase seeing
either ... or viewing does not follow the idiom the author attempts to use:
either X or Y where both X and Y are parallel
D. the second as an in the phrase
seeing Joshua’s efforts as a desperate and as an unprofessional manner is unnecessary, wordy, and disruptive to the flow of the sentence
E. the phrase seeing
either ... or they viewed does not follow the idiom the author attempts to use:
either X or Y where both X and Y are parallel