While investigating the reasons behind the bankruptcy of the trading

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.

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.

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" is used to present the reason for a NOUN and "because of" modifies the action.

(A) that the company collapsed more due to poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products -> collapsed more due to...No! Incorrect. It should be collapsed more because of....

(B) that the collapse was caused more by the poor management of funds than due to customers not buying the company’s products -> "caused more by the poor management" is incorrect. we should use "caused more because of the poor management'

(C) that the company collapsed more because of poor management of funds than because of customers not buying its products ->"collapsed more because of poor management" it is correct. let's check further. "collapse....because of customers" Okay, it is correct too. Further, "its" pronoun refers to "company". It makes sense. Let's keep it.

(D) that the collapse was more due to poor management of funds than because of customers not buying the company’s products -> "due to poor management" is correct. let's check further, "collapse was...because of customers" is incorrect. We need "due to".

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

So, I think C.

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"

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.

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.

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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(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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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

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)

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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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 productsparallelism 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 productsCorrect because of usage

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

"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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