Skywalker18 wrote:
don't we need a that after announced here?
The loan company announced that it would soon lend money to borrowers with proven records
Dear
Skywalker18,
I'm happy to respond.
This is a funny thing about official questions. GMAT official questions are perhaps the most rigorously tested questions in the world: each one has been used on the GMAT thousands of times, and so has a mountain of data behind it verifying its quality.
There is some variability in the quality--after all, the instruction is not to find the
ideal answer but merely the best of five. Furthermore, sometimes a gross breach of GMAT SC standards occurs in an unrelated part of the non-underlined portion. Most people taking the test would focus exclusively on the underlined section and would validate the question based on that portion. If someone gets distracted by the absent "
that" during the test, that would make it marginally more likely that this student would get the question wrong. In a way, that mistake can act as a distractor.
So, yes, of course the most formal and proper way to write this would be
The loan company announced that it would soon lend money to borrowers with proven records . . .
Absolutely, that would be the best.
What this particular official question has in the non-underlined portion is less than ideal. Don't let this fluster you. Don't allow yourself to spend intellectual or emotional energy on this point. Don't allow yourself to be distracted. Just accept it and move it.
Does all this make sense?
Mike