Off-shoring technology jobs has allowed American companies to signific

Can you please explain why option B is incorrect?????????

Meaning: Sending jobs overseas . . . has been blamed for X, Y, and Z. Those three items must be parallel.
The non-underlined portion contains the first item in the list.
Cutting is a gerund. (A verbING.) It acts as a noun does but keep verb-like qualities.
We need three gerunds.
We find them in A and B, but the third item in B is ungrammatical and a stylistic disaster.


• blamed for . . . cutting, . . . affecting, . . . and increasing.
• I see no problems.
It does not matter that an adjective precedes the gerund (verbING) in the third item.
All three are gerund phrases: a noun-like thing and modifiers.
KEEP.


• the phrase causing great increase in the unemployment rate is not grammatical.
-- The noun needs an article, this way: causing A great increase.
-- Even then, the phrase is not idiomatic.
Wrong: Journalists have chronicled great increase in the rate of hate crimes since the election of Donald Trump.
Wrong: The blizzard created great increase in the rate of car accidents.
• not idiomatic. We say "A steep, sharp, or rapid" increase in the rate of unemployment, but not "great increase."
• the phrase is clumsy and strange,
• OR, simply compare to option (A).
A) . . . greatly increasing the unemployment rate
B) . . .causing great increase in the unemployment rate
-- If nothing else, go with concision in (A).
Eliminate B.


• the objects of the preposition for (blamed for) are not parallel: cutting [jobs], thousands [affected], unemployment rate [increased]
gerund + object, noun+ past participle, noun + past participle.
Eliminate C


• The meaning is absurd: . . . also been blamed for cutting . . . thousands of affected Americans?
No. What, with knives? Nonsense.
Eliminate D[/color]


. . . "blamed for"cutting jobs, thousands affected,and great increase in the unemployment rate.
Not parallel; the errors are similar to those in C.
The problem in B returns in E. The phrase "blamed for great increase in the unemployment rate" is not grammatical, idiomatic, or rhetorically sound.
Eliminate E.

The answer is A.

Hi DilYeJiddiHai , please see my post below, here.

ssshyam1995 and chowdhurysakib71 , you asked the same question.

(tbhauer , just above you, gave one of the reasons that B is incorrect.)

I have a question for all three of you. I'm being completely honest.

Why is B better than A?
Pretend you haven't read my post.

Why were you thinking that B was better than A?

I was thinking that causing didn't fit well as the correct word to be parallel.

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