Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reser

If you want to create a standard approach to solve these types of questions, make sure you identify the parts of speech. Isolate the subject first, your life will be easier.

Notice that there is a phrase between commas, removing which also makes the sentence logical. So remove it and simplify. Now the original sentence is:
Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve are almost certain to leave interests rates unchanged for the foreseeable future.

You see the mistake? The subject is "policy makers" [plural] so verb should be "are". Eliminate E.

Now coming to the phrase between the commas. It is modifying phrase talking about the subject closest to the comma, which is "Federal Reserve". In C and D, "who" is used with Federal Reserve, which is incorrect. Now we are left with A and B.

The idiomatic usage is "between X and Y" where X and Y have to be parallel. In B, it is not. In B, X = "that of moderate growth" and Y = "low inflation". Do not agree...

thus the correct answer is A.

If you want to create a standard approach to solve these types of questions, make sure you identify the parts of speech. Isolate the subject first, your life will be easier.

Notice that there is a phrase between commas, removing which also makes the sentence logical. So remove it and simplify. Now the original sentence is:
Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve are almost certain to leave interests rates unchanged for the foreseeable future.

You see the mistake? The subject is "policy makers" [plural] so verb should be "are". Eliminate E.

Now coming to the phrase between the commas. It is modifying phrase talking about the subject closest to the comma, which is "Federal Reserve". In C and D, "who" is used with Federal Reserve, which is incorrect. Now we are left with A and B.

The idiomatic usage is "between X and Y" where X and Y have to be parallel. In B, it is not. In B, X = "that of moderate growth" and Y = "low inflation". Do not agree...

thus the correct answer is A.

For those still not convinced by why D is wrong.

A lot of folks here have said that D is wrong because WHO refers to fed reserve. this reason is WRONG because WHO can STILL refer to policy makers.

Consider the following:
1. He said that he knows policy makers, who are nice, are good at small talk.
2. He said that he knows policy makers at the fed reserve, who are nice, are good at small talk.

both are correct because in #2 "at the fed reserve" is modifying policy makers. WHO can jump the modifier and refer to policy makers. Look at: https://gmatclub.com/forum/noun-modifier ... 35868.html for more info. this shows that noun modifiers can be far away when there is ANOTHER modifier in the middle.

The real reasons why D is wrong:
1. the presence of will be leads to an awkward sentence. "experts believe that policy makers will be almost certain to...." this will be.. to.. leads to an awkward sentence. Also, there is no indication in the sentence that experts believe that policy makers will do something in the future.
2. wrong idiom is used "view x TO BE Y." correct idiom is view x AS Y.

egmat please confirm my understanding.

Here is a yet another dimension to solve this tangle the grammar way;

A. Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are ---- correct sentence with a working plural verb -are- for the subject policy makers

B. Reserve, now viewing the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation and are ……..The conjunction- and – spoils the party, by weaning away the verb and leaving the first part of the sentence a fragment without a working verb

C. Reserve who, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are … the intrusion of who despoils the structure of the sentence by rendering the main clause a fragment.

D. Reserve, who now view the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation, will be --- as already punted out, the pronoun –who- does not gel with the Fed, literally an inanimate body

E. Reserve, which now views the economy to be balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, is ------ policy makers and is – S-V mismatch

These observations are in addition to the other idiomatic mistakes pointed by other posters .

I have a doubt between A and D
Who (used for person)can anyways not modify FR- so modifier err is not there- what else to eliminate the incorrect option out of these two?

I got this question in my GMAT Prep yesterday. I am sure that I couldn't nail this problem because of lack of conceptual clarity.

When I looked at option A, I felt the phrase between the commas is an '-ing' modifier and hence it doesn't modify the closest noun/noun phrase - "policy makers at the Federal Reserve". Instead, the modifier modifies "how experts believe?"

So, I felt may be C is better in adding 'Who', though I was really not sure.

Could somebody help me where am I wrong in my reasoning?

Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are almost certain to leave interests rates unchanged for the foreseeable future.

(A) Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are

(B) Reserve, now viewing the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation and are

(C) Reserve who, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are

(D) Reserve, who now view the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation, will be

(E) Reserve, which now views the economy to be balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, is

(D) Reserve, who now view the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation, will be

• correct idiom: VIEW X AS Y, not view X to be Y
• that of makes no sense

(option D)
Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve, who now view the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation, will be certain to leave interests rates unchanged for the foreseeable future.

Question on (D)



- Is the tense and the tone of the sentence in the yellow highlight - simple future tense and passive voice ?

I believe it is.

If so, is the tense (future tense in the case of D) a genuine split ?

I notice in (A) - the tense is simple tense

Is that a split between (A) and (D) to eliminate (d) ?

Some people are saying it is -- but i dont think a test taker can figure that out as both make sense to me

Do you think its a genuine split or no ?