While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading

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While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading company, the empowered committee realized  that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products .

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products

Sumi1010 · Accepted Answer

While investigating the  reasons  behind the bankruptcy of the trading company,  the empowered committee realized that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products.

Note that 
1.The committee tried to find the reasons behind the collapse. i.e. WHY aspect of the collapse.
2. The committee realised the reasons for the collapse .

"Because of" modifies entire clauses and is used to explain the verb or the action described in the clause. "due to" modifies the preceding noun only. 
Thus, 
 The company collapsed due to X. 
The company collapsed because of X.

Now the choices -
(A) that the company  collapsed more due to poor management  of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products
 "due to" is incorrect to modify the action of collapse.  
(B) that the collapse was caused more  by the poor management  of funds than  due to customers  not buying the company’s products
 More X than Y; X and Y should be parallel.  
(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products
 Looks correct. Hold on. 
(D) that the collapse was more  due to poor management  of funds than  because of customers  not buying the company’s products
 More X than Y; X and Y should be parallel.  
(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products
  X did more THAN did Y  .
Grammatically correct construction, but talks on WHO aspects of the collapse. We need to give WHY aspect of the collapse as implied by "the  reasons  behind the bankruptcy". Thus, it's change in meaning.

C

Bunuel · Answer

Official Explanation:

Answer: C

(A) The usage of  due to  is incorrect.

(B) Since  more  is followed by  by , parallelism requires that  than  also be followed by  by  and not  due to .

(C) The correct answer ; both the clauses start with  because of

(D) The usage of  due to  is incorrect. Also,  due to  and  because of  are not parallel.

(E) Passive and awkward sentence construction. Also, does not maintain parallelism

ranjan1 · Answer

While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading company, the empowered committee realized  that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products.

Error Analysis:- Sentence is comparing two reasons for company collapse. Hence,  Because of  would be more preferable over  due to .

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products.  Correct.

Pankaj0901 · Answer

IMO correct answer C

"because of" modifies "verb"; "due to" modifies "noun"
Here, "collapsed" is a verb, hence correct usage is "because of". All options are eliminated except C.

TarunKumar1234 · Answer

While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading company, the empowered committee realized that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products.

Note that
1.The committee tried to find the reasons behind the collapse. i.e. WHY aspect of the collapse.
2. The committee realised the reasons for the collapse .

"Because of" modifies entire clauses and is used to explain the verb or the action described in the clause. "due to" modifies the preceding noun only.
Thus,
~~The company collapsed due to X.~~
The company collapsed because of X.

Now the choices -
(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products
"due to" is incorrect to modify the action of collapse.
(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products
More X than Y; X and Y should be parallel.
(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products
Looks correct. Hold on.
(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products
More X than Y; X and Y should be parallel.
(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products
X did more THAN did Y .
Grammatically correct construction, but talks on WHO aspects of the collapse. We need to give WHY aspect of the collapse as implied by "the reasons behind the bankruptcy". Thus, it's change in meaning.

C

zhanbo · Answer

My answer is (C).

Strictly speaking,  Due  is an adjective, and thus  due to  cannot be used as an adverb. 
  Correct  : The problems might be due to a shortage of disk space.
  Correct  : Symptoms due to abnormal neuronal activity are easy to notice.
  Incorrect  : Due to the inclement weather, this flight is cancelled.
  Incorrect  : All national parks are closed due to the shutdown of the Federal Government.

(A) "Due to" is used as an adverb.
(B) "Due to" is used as an adverb. Parallelism problem between "by" and "due to"
(D) Parallelism problem between "due to" and "because of"

carouselambra · Answer

IMO C

While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading company, the empowered committee realized that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products.

Due to vs because
When confused, replace due to with "in place of" - we can clearly see how the usage is wrong.
3:2 split - Eliminate A,B and D

(A) that the company collapsed more  due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products
 
(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than  due to customers not buying the company’s products

(C) that the company collapsed more  because  of poor management of funds than  because  of customers not buying its products

(D) that the collapse <of what?> was more  due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products

(E) that poor management of funds  did more  to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products
Comparing the wrong the clauses.No parallelism.

warrior1991 · Answer

Issue here is of  'due to ' and ' because of '.Replace  'due to'  with ' caused by ' and check if the sentence makes sense. If NO, eliminate otherwise keep and look for some other errors.

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products
 Caused by poor management of funds is not the correct construct. Because of poor management of funds is much better. Eliminate this choice.

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products
 caused by customers not buying company's products is again not a correct construct. Eliminate

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products
 Correct usage of because of for highlighting two reasons.More because of A than because of B. Keep

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products
 Caused by poor management of funds is not the correct construct. Because of poor management of funds is much better. Eliminate this choice.

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products
 This option changes the meaning. The meaning comes out as poor management of funds were not buying the company's products. This is blatantly incorrect.

IMO C.

Pranjal1 · Answer

I think the answer is D. Wherever "due to" is used. Ask due to what? Answer should be noun. In first case answer is "poor management of funds" but in second case answer is "customer". However the company collapsed not due to customers but "customers not buying products". Hence "because" shall be used.

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ravigupta2912 · Answer

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products — “due to” is incorrect here. Due to usually modifies a noun but in this case is modifying the verb “collapsed”.

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products — incorrect parallelism. “Caused more by X than by Y” is the correct idiom. In this case, X = the poor management of funds (noun phrase) and Y = due to bla bla. The due to is a redundancy here since “caused by” is already used in the sentence.

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products — correct. No obvious errors.

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products — “Due to” is not parallel to “because of”

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products — incorrect parallelism. Poor management of funds (noun phrase) compared with “customers by not buying the company’s products” here the “by” is creating an unnecessary issue. something like a “non buying customers etc” would have made it better grammatically. Anyways, enough to doubt this choice.

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SofiaDahiya · Answer

While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading company, the empowered committee realized that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products.

This sentence is checking "parallelism error" by using more...than...
Also it's checking usage of due to / because of

construction of the sentence should be parallel after 'more' and 'than'. 'Because of' is used to modify the action or complete clause. 'Due to' is used to modify the noun. In this case, committee realized something, hence because of should be used to modify the clause.

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products - usage of 'due to' is not correct

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products - was caused more by X than due to Y is not parallel

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products - company collapsed more because of X than because of Y , hence correct

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products - due to is not correct

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products - change in meaning

wali786 · Answer

While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading company, the empowered committee realized that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products.

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products. ( due to here is modifying poor management of funds and due to can only modify nouns).

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products ( caused and due to not parallel)

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products
(correct use of because and parallel)
(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products ( violate parallelism)

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products
( again no parallelism)

ArindamLucky · Answer

IMO C

More X than Y is the correct idiom and X and Y should be parallel
B,D,E out

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products - parallelism error

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products -- parallelism error

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products -- parallelism error

Now to identify when to use due and when to use because use caused by in place of due and see if the sentence makes sense. Here it doesn't make sense hence C is the winner

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pradeepgontla · Answer

Hello,

I would love to give my inputs on this question, this is a typical due to vs because of question and below is my reasoning.

Usage of due to : to modify nouns only 
Usage of because of : to modify action/verb.

Explaination of the sentence : Here the modifier is to modify Collapsed ( Action word) so because of is preferred for post more and than.

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products  here due to is modifying verb. Hence, incorrect.

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products parallelism issue more is followed by "by" while than is folled by "due to". However, usage of due to is incorrect in this instance.

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products Correct because of usage

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products Incorrect as mentioned in option A

(E) that poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse than did customers by not buying the company’s products Again parallelism error.

KeyurJoshi · Answer

"due to" and "caused by" must modify a noun.
- "due to" and "caused by" are SIMILAR and MUST modify a NOUN. 
e.g. The destruction was due to the earthquake
e.g. The destruction was caused by the earthquake

(A) that  the company collapsed  more  due to  poor management of funds than  due to  customers not buying the company’s products
 - due to modifies "company collapsed"

Lets evaluate (B)explicitly, 
(B) that the collapse was caused  more   by the poor management of funds   than  the collapse was caused  due to customers not buying the company’s products 
 - "caused by" and "due to" are UNPARALLEL

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products
-   CORRECT  and parallel. 
- "because of" must precede a NOUN

(D) that the collapse was more  due to  poor management of funds than  because of  customers not buying the company’s products
 - "because of" and "due to" are UNPARALLEL. Same as (B).

(E) that  poor management of funds did more to cause the collapse  than did customers by not buying the company’s products  - Here, meaning is distored, 
"poor management of funds" CANNOT DO something TO CAUSE something else.
Instead "poor management of funds" CAN CAUSE something directly.

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