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Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
(A) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
(B) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
(C) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
(D) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
(E) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
In this problem, I chose D, but the OA is A. What is wrong with D and what makes option A the ideal answer? What is this question really testing? I would really appreciate your input to this problem. thanks
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Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
promise in / of keeping are just not idiomatic=> "promise to its customers to keep" is the correct version. This leaves us with A and B.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices (how?) by + ing verb. A is correct. If you want to say "how" a thing happened, in this case "how they did those practices" the construct in A is correct.
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tarek99 wrote:
Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
c) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
d) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
e) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
In this problem, I chose D, but the OA is A. What is wrong with D and what makes option A the ideal answer? What is this question really testing? I would really appreciate your input to this problem. thanks
'Promise to' is correct compared to promise in, of and A is concise compared to B
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tarek99 wrote:
Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep c) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping d) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping e) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
A has no error as it is the most concise and succinct. "failure to" is also a correct idiom.
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In addition to above statements pertaining to the correct usage of infinitive "to keep" vs "keeping" (gerund), introduction of "because" changes the meaning. Try to read back the option D, it would mean "Because the bank failed to keep its promise, it is engaging in deceptive business practices". Using the expression "by failing to honour..." the phrase "deceptive business" is properly qualified.
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dushver wrote:
In addition to above statements pertaining to the correct usage of infinitive "to keep" vs "keeping" (gerund), introduction of "because" changes the meaning. Try to read back the option D, it would mean "Because the bank failed to keep its promise, it is engaging in deceptive business practices". Using the expression "by failing to honour..." the phrase "deceptive business" is properly qualified.
I dont see your point. It would actually be: "Because the bank failed..., the state's attorney general...", which is correct meaning. Could anybody clarify? Thanks.
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tarek99 wrote:
Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
c) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
d) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
e) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
two idioms tested in this:
FAILIURE TO X....and PROMISE TO Y....
moreover you may notice that because of too many pronoun (ITS) and prepositional phrases..all other options are unnecessarily wordy.
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tarek99 wrote:
Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
c) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
d) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
e) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
In this problem, I chose D, but the OA is A. What is wrong with D and what makes option A the ideal answer? What is this question really testing? I would really appreciate your input to this problem. thanks
For people who are confused about the correct answer, look up a concept called the infinitive of purpose. According to that concept, only 'to keep' is correct, so we are down to A and B. B incorrectly uses its failure of honoring.
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Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
c) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
d) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
e) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
"Because of" changes meaning. promise to keep => correct idiomatic expression Failure of honoring => unidiomatic expression
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tarek99 wrote:
Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
a) by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
b) by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
c) in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
d) because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
e) because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
Hi D and E changes meaning by giving WHY part of the DECEPTION...but we need HOW the DECEPTION took place. So A/B/C... Can anyone provide me the details as to how the reaming two wrong options can be eliminated?
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Hi Experts,
'the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.'
In the sentence above, I feel that usage of 'by' had two separate meanings: 1. The state's attorney general accused by failing to honor its promise... 2. The bank engaged in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise...
Can you please explain if this is not the case. I have my exam scheduled for day after tomorrow, so a quick response would be very much appreciated.
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anirudhsuhag.25, both of those interpretations are possible in theory, but only the second one makes sense. "Its" cannot refer to the attorney general; we'd need "his" or "her." Even if it could, how can we accuse someone by failing to honor a promise? #2 works because if the bank breaks its promise to customers, it was being deceptive.
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