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At the end of 2001, motion picture industry representatives said that there were about a million copies of Hollywood movies available online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available.


(A) online and motion picture industry representatives expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available

(B) online and motion picture industry representatives expect the increase of piracy with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections

(C) online, and motion picture industry representatives they expect more piracy to increase with the wider availability of high-speed Internet connections

(D) online, and motion picture industry representatives said that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available

(E) online, and motion picture industry representatives said that that they expected piracy to increase as high-speed Internet connections became more widely available

Can someone explain me why there is a comma between "online *,* and that"

This highlights an initiation of a new independent clause.

For the very same reason I wasn't choosing option E

Milan, the same has been discussed multiple times by multiple experts in this thread. So, if you could just do a little digging, I am sure you will have your query answered.

Hi, I have doubts in below options.

(A) online and expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections that become more widely available



Will option A be correct if- '' online and they expected piracy to increase with high-speed Internet connections BECOMING more widely available

Is it ok to use modifiers here v/s verb (became) in option E. I guess meaning derived is same?

I generally get confused when I see ''with...'' phrase. Is this usage correct here.

'that' at the start (said that) can be taken common for 2nd part (and that they expected) ?


(D) online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available

(E) online, and that they expected piracy to increase as high-speed Internet connections became more widely available



in option D and E- ''expected the increase of piracy'' v/s ''expected the piracy to increase'' - meaning looks same to me. Is it so?

Hello himanshu0123,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your queries, your version of Option A is correct, and yes; D and E convey the same meaning.

We hope this helps.
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himanshu0123


"The increase" in D is a little funny, and doesn't convey quite the same thing as the version in E. By placing "the" in front of increase, we're implying that there WAS actually an increase, and that the representatives successfully predicted it. That's not the same thing as saying that they thought an increase would occur. For instance, if I think there will be a rainstorm today, I might "expect a rainstorm" or "expect the weather to turn stormy." But if I say "I expect the rainstorm," you'd wonder "What rainstorm?"

I'd like to add one more explanation to why D doesn't make sense

In direct speech, the below two scenarios are possible:

1. We expect the increase of piracy as high speed internet connections will become more widely available
2. We expect piracy to increase as high speed internet connections become more widely available

according to which both D and E seems fair. But, if we consider the indirect speech individually,

D. ...they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available

Correct usage of would: As water would become widely [Future in the past] available, we can do farming [Referring to future]
Usage in D: As water would become widely [Future in the past] available, we did farming [Referring to past, a construction that is non-sensical]

E. ...they expected piracy to increase as high-speed Internet connections became more widely available

Makes sense as both the events are in past

GMATNinja ChiranjeevSingh

In option D "online, and that they expected the increase of piracy as high-speed Internet connections would become more widely available", is the use of 'would become' incorrect?

Does 'would become' represents hypothetical scenario (would + base verb)?
Can it not be past form of 'will'. Eg: The scientist believed that the machine would be wonderful. (would + base verb - used with past tense to represent expectation of future from the POV of past)?

Is the usage wrong because it is used with 'as' (representing simultaneous events) and thus, 'would become' needs to be written in past tense form.

Please help to clarify the doubt.

Thanks in advance!

Hello ShubhamAgarwal,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, your reasoning here is correct; Option D incorrectly uses the "would + simple present tense verb" construction to refer to an event that concluded in the past; please remember, the simple past tense is used to refer to events that concluded in the past, and the "would + simple present tense verb" construction is used to refer to hypothetical future actions and habitual actions in the past.

Kudos.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

Please check out these two posts, and let us know if you still have questions!

• https://gmatclub.com/forum/at-the-end-of-2001-motion-picture-industry-representatives-said-that-220348-40.html#p2954222
  
• https://gmatclub.com/forum/at-the-end-of-2001-motion-picture-industry-representatives-said-that-220348-60.html#p3011904

Hi GMATNinja AndrewN egmat
Is option D also incorrect because it uses 'would become'?
I thought E was incorrect since it uses 'became', given that we're talking about the future

anshgupta_2

Yes, "would become" is wrong. We'd use that for a future hypothetical: "If this impacted your salary, I would become more concerned."

As for "became," think about how we'd say it in the present: "They EXPECT piracy to increase as connections BECOME more widely available." Even though we are looking forward, we use a present verb to describe the trend of connections becoming more available. So when we write in the past tense, we just shift both verbs to the past: "They EXPECTED piracy to increase as connections BECAME more available."