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The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone accounts caused by customer willingness to act on new promotional offers to switch providers.

a) increase in the churn of cell phone accounts caused by customer willingness to act on new promotional offers to switch

b) increase in the churn of cell phone accounts caused by willingness of customers to act on new promotional offers switching

c) increasing churn of cell phone accounts caused by willingness of customers to act on new promotional offers by switching

d) churn of cell phone accounts increase because of customer willingness to act on new promotional offers to switch

e) increase in the churn of cell phone accounts because of customer willingness to act on new promotional offers to switch
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Re: The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone a [#permalink] New post   07 Aug 2020, 13:46
A,B,C:

"cause" is a noun and a verb. To cause trouble. Johnny was the cause of the trouble.
"Because" is a connector word, followed by a verb or a verb phrase: "I did it because she told me to."
Sometimes "because" is abbreviated to "'cause" in informal or careless speech: "I did it 'cause she told me to."

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Misplacing "Increase"

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Re: The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone a [#permalink] New post   01 Sep 2022, 05:22
Why is B incorrect? The new promotions made them switch providers. To act on new promotions switching providers... Cause effect relationship with ing modifier?

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Re: The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone a [#permalink] New post   01 Sep 2022, 05:51
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Why is B incorrect? The new promotions made them switch providers. To act on new promotions switching providers... Cause effect relationship with ing modifier?

What am I missing?

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Hello rkhosla,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, in order to convey a cause-effect relationship, the present participle must be preceded by a comma.

To understand the concept of "Comma Plus Present Participle for Cause-Effect Relationship" on GMAT, you may want to watch the following video (~2 minutes):



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Can somebody please explain more why "caused by" in A is incorrect but "because of" in E is correct?
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The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone a [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2022, 21:18
Why is A incorrect and E correct? "Due to" modifies a noun clause and "because of", verb. Isn't "customer unwillingness" an abstract noun? Please explain
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The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone a [#permalink] New post   16 Sep 2022, 02:55
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Can somebody please explain more why "caused by" in A is incorrect but "because of" in E is correct?
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“Because of” functions as a modifier of verbs. It can only be used to provide the reason behind a verb or an action.
Option E: increase in the churn of cell phone accounts because of customer willingness to act on new promotional offers to switch

“Caused by” functions as a modifier of nouns. It can only be used to provide the reason behind a noun and not a verb.
Option A: The industry has seen a dramatic increase in the churn of cell phone accounts caused by customer willingness to act on new promotional offers to switch. Here seen is verb.

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