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08 Aug 2023, 01:30
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If state legislators reconfirm their support of measures that have contributed to recent economic growth, such as updating the 25-year old telecommunication laws, media entrepreneurs have and will continue to attract investors and promote employment in Illinois.
A. have and will continue to attract
B. have been and will continue to attract
C. will continue to attract
D. will continue to attract, as they already did
E. will continue to attract, as they already have
A. have and will continue to attract
B. have been and will continue to attract
C. will continue to attract
D. will continue to attract, as they already did
E. will continue to attract, as they already have
08 Aug 2023, 11:57
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I think answer is C.
A and B are not parallel (e.g. have to attract or have been attract). D and E have redundant "already did/have" as continue to attract is already mentioned.
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A and B are not parallel (e.g. have to attract or have been attract). D and E have redundant "already did/have" as continue to attract is already mentioned.
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02 Sep 2023, 11:15
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
If state legislators reconfirm their support of measures that have contributed to recent economic growth, such as updating the 25-year old telecommunication laws, media entrepreneurs have and will continue to attract investors and promote employment in Illinois.
A. have and will continue to attract
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. In the phrase have and will continue, the verb have is incomplete: it either states ownership and is missing a noun object (what do the media entrepreneurs have?) or is part of a broken Present Perfect verb lacking a V3 verb (e.g. have continued).
Note that what helps us identify the mistake is actually the Stop Sign:
- If / Unless
The use of the Present Simple tense in the condition part (if... reconfirm), indicates Conditional 1. Hence, the result part should be in the Future or Present Simple tense, and no other tense (such as the attempted Present Perfect) is acceptable.
B. have been and will continue to attract
Incorrect.
This answer choice repeats the original mistake. In the phrase have been and will continue, the verb have been is incomplete: it either states being and is missing an object (what have the media entrepreneurs been?) or is part of a broken Present Perfect verb lacking a V+ing verb (e.g. have been continuing).
C. will continue to attract
This answer choice correctly completes the Conditional in the sentence, by eliminating the first verb have from the result part of the conditional sentence.
It is also more concise than the other answer choices, as it eliminates the redundancy created by the parallel verb that appears in all the other answer choices. The verb continue implies that investors have been attracted to Illinois in the past, so it is unnecessary and redundant to state this.
D. will continue to attract, as they already did
Incorrect.
While this answer choice correctly completes the Conditional in the sentence, it is stylistically flawed. The phrase as they already did is redundant. The verb continue already implies that investors have been attracted to Illinois in the past, so it is unnecessary to state this explicitly.
E. will continue to attract, as they already have
Incorrect.
While this answer choice correctly completes the Conditional in the sentence, it is stylistically flawed. The phrase as they have already is redundant. The verb continue already implies that investors have been attracted to Illinois in the past, so it is unnecessary to state this explicitly.
