Many real estate agents assert that the rising inflation rates and

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Many real estate agents assert that the rising inflation rates and growing secondary home sales indicate increasing confidence  that the real estate market will avoid the downturn that many homeowners had anticipated earlier in the quarter and instead continue  to steadily increase for much of the next fiscal year.

(A) that the real estate market will avoid the downturn that many homeowners had anticipated earlier in the quarter and instead continue

(B) in the real estate market to avoid the downturn, what many homeowners anticipated earlier in the quarter, rather to continue

(C) in the real estate market's ability to avoid the downturn, something earlier in the quarter many home owners had anticipated, and instead to continue

(D) in the real estate market to avoid the downturn many homeowners were anticipating earlier in the year, and rather to continue

(E) that the real estate market will avoid the downturn that was feared earlier in the quarter by many homeowners, with it instead continuing

Ishmeet7 · Answer

I got the answer as A but I was not being able to reject option D. Can someone help?

Khushm17 · Answer

Can somebody please explain the difference in between A and D answer choices?

Tukkebaaz · Answer

Many real estate agents assert that the rising inflation rates and growing secondary home sales indicate increasing confidence that the real estate market will avoid the downturn that many homeowners had anticipated earlier in the quarter and instead continue to steadily increase for much of the next fiscal year.

(A) that the real estate market will avoid the downturn that many homeowners had anticipated earlier in the quarter and instead continue Parallelism maintained.

(B) in the real estate market to avoid the downturn, what many homeowners anticipated earlier in the quarter, rather to continue

(C) in the real estate market's ability to avoid the downturn, something earlier in the quarter many home owners had anticipated, and instead to continue.

Here is where a bit of meaning comes into play: Did people have confidence in the market itself or the markets ability to do something? Plus this bit should ideally convey when the trend was anticipated.

(D) in the real estate market to avoid the downturn many homeowners were anticipating earlier in the year, and rather to continue

(E) that the real estate market will avoid the downturn that was feared earlier in the quarter by many homeowners, with it instead continuing simultaneous action makes no sense

Idiomatic usage: Confidence in someone or Confidence that something will happen or Confidence in someone's ability/strength/ other characters. B/D out. Generally, a good tip is to play out sample alternative use cases to see if the usage makes sense.

Hope this helps you

ThatIndianGuy · Answer

Can someone explain issue in B apart from Idiom issue?

Rohith230 · Answer

IMO, in the real estate market conveys a different meaning as compared to 'that the real estate market'. The question stem refers to the confidence of the real estate market to avoid the downturn, not to avoid a downturn in the market.

Tukkebaaz · Answer

Sure aside from the meaning issue created we have: Increasing confidence in the market to avoid the..., rather to continue. There is a missing conjunction Now aside from this: Look at the structure - X&Y indicate increasing confidence in the market to avoid Now is the intention behind X&Y indicating something to avoid the downturn or to continue to increase something? No right. Of course C is slightly different as to avoid is an object there: Ability for what? Hope this helps

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