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23 Apr 2021, 08:30
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80% (01:44) correct
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Like government bureaucrats, corporate middle managers have been observed to serve primarily their own ends when they are making decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or they select new hires.
(A) are making decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or they select
(B) are making decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer in that they choose winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submit performance reviews, or select
(C) make decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer, choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or by selecting
(D) make decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or by selecting
(E) make decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or selecting
(A) are making decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or they select
(B) are making decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer in that they choose winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submit performance reviews, or select
(C) make decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer, choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or by selecting
(D) make decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or by selecting
(E) make decisions purportedly on behalf of their employer by choosing winning bids from among competing contractor proposals, submitting performance reviews, or selecting
30 Apr 2021, 08:45
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Bunuel
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Answer: E
Given the list at the end of the sentence, focus on whether the list items are parallel. As written, they are not: "by choosing..., submitting, or they select..." If "they select" were replaced by "selecting," the items would be parallel. Eliminate (A). The list items in (B) are parallel, but "are making" is incorrect compared to "make" in the other choices. (C) uses "make" and all three verbs are parallel, but the use of the word "by" before "selecting" is wrong: "choosing..., submitting..., by selecting." (D) repeats that mistake. (E) corrects all of these errors, and is correct.
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23 Apr 2021, 11:59
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Bunuel
IMO the answer is option E
The sentence uses the verb serve and observed which eliminates A and B we will need make and not making.
Option C - says, choosing ? eliminate
between D and E by parallelism . E is the answer
