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Re: Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the
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17 Feb 2017, 08:57
Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank’s profits on paper.
Issues: Modifiers
Analysis:
1. The sentence presents a causation and supports it with an example (the underlined part). Hence, this sentence tests modifier to connect two clauses as well as markers to introduce examples.
(A) clients; auditors may, for instance, allow
- Correctly combines two independent clauses using ";"
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
- "as an instance" and "to allow" is not connected properly
(C) clients, like to allow
- "like" is not used to present examples
(D) clients, such as to be allowing
- "to be" make the sentence non-sensical as it can not an example of "bent rules"
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of
- "; which" is a ungrammatical
- various clauses in this options are not connected properly
Answer: (A)