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(A) Foreign investors, because of their growing confidence in their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, have been led -> capability of is correct form.
(B) Foreign investors, growing confident about their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, has led them -> Foreign investors are plural
(C) Growing confidence in their ability to make profitable investments in the United States has led foreign investors -> Correct
(D) Growing confidence in their ability for making profitable investments in the United States have led foreign investors -> ability to do sth/to doing sth is correct form
(E) Growing confident about their capabilities for making profitable investments in the United States, foreign investors have been led -> capabilities of is correct form

(A) Foreign investors,......... have been led ...... ( does this make any sense ) Eliminated

(B) Foreign investors,...... has led them ( Investors - Has - SV disagreement) Eliminated

(C) Growing confidence (in their ability to make profitable investments in the United States ) has led foreign investors ------------- remove the bracketted portion n reread, Growing confidence has led investors to move from X to Y : Perfect

(D) Growing confidence .............have led foreign investors ( Have, SV Disagreement ) Eliminated

(E) Growing confident about their capabilities for making profitable investments in the United States, foreign investors have been led ( Same as A )

leading to C

"capability for making profitable investments" is rather awkward... Hence, eliminate A and E.
"ability to make profits" is better...

(A) Foreign investors, because of their growing confidence in their capability formaking profitable investments in the United States, have been led
(E) Growing confident about their capabilities for making profitable investments in the United States, foreign investors have been led

"Has led them" is pointing to itself... "Foreign investors has led them" - Confusing isn't it? Hence, eliminate B.

(B) Foreign investors, growing confident about their capability for making profitable investments in the United States, has led them

(D) Growing confidence ... have led foreign investors - must be singular

Answer: C




Answer: C
(C) Growing confidence in their ability to make profitable investments in the United States has led foreign investors

We need the subject " growing confidence", not "foreign investors" have been led. Left with C, D, and E. C is the best choice since "ability to" is idiomatic, "ability for doing sth" and " growing confident about" are not preferred.

1.Idiom： ability to do sth
2. pronoun can appear before the antecedent

I thought the right answer was B because "has" is connected to "capability" which is singular.
I understand the phrase that "capability has led them(Foreign Investors) to....

Could someone help me to understand why "has" is not correct here o how I should read the phrase to understand it better.

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