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Public companies will be required to raise their governance game if they want to be able to compete against private firms
A) Public companies will be required to raise their governance game if they want to be able to compete against private firms.
B) Public companies should raise their governance game if they wish to compete with private firms.
C) Public companies would need to raise their governance game if they wish to compete against private firms.
D) Public companies have to need to raise their governance game if they are to be in competition with private firms.
E) Public companies will need to raise their governance game if they are to compete with private firms.
A) Public companies will be required to raise their governance game if they want to be able to compete against private firms.
B) Public companies should raise their governance game if they wish to compete with private firms.
C) Public companies would need to raise their governance game if they wish to compete against private firms.
D) Public companies have to need to raise their governance game if they are to be in competition with private firms.
E) Public companies will need to raise their governance game if they are to compete with private firms.
21 Sep 2011, 11:40
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I'm not crazy about this question--none of the answers is quite GMAT style--but it does push us to consider if...then construction.
When an if...then sentence represents a general rule with no uncertainty, use IF present THEN present. When an if...then sentence represents a particular future case with no uncertainty, use IF present THEN future. (For other if...then constructions not relevant to this question, see the Manhattan GMAT Sentence Correction Strategy Guide, page 112-113)
For this sentence, I'd incline toward IF present THEN future, because this sentence seems to be about a particular case. I might accept IF present THEN present if all the IF present THEN future answers have other grammatical problems. So I'll eliminate C for sure, and B tentatively.
OK, for concision I'm going to choose compete over be able to compete or be in competition, so there go A and D.
That leaves E. I don't think B is terrible, but I'd have to go with E.
A small additional point: raise their...game is too colloquial for real GMAT SC.
When an if...then sentence represents a general rule with no uncertainty, use IF present THEN present. When an if...then sentence represents a particular future case with no uncertainty, use IF present THEN future. (For other if...then constructions not relevant to this question, see the Manhattan GMAT Sentence Correction Strategy Guide, page 112-113)
For this sentence, I'd incline toward IF present THEN future, because this sentence seems to be about a particular case. I might accept IF present THEN present if all the IF present THEN future answers have other grammatical problems. So I'll eliminate C for sure, and B tentatively.
OK, for concision I'm going to choose compete over be able to compete or be in competition, so there go A and D.
That leaves E. I don't think B is terrible, but I'd have to go with E.
A small additional point: raise their...game is too colloquial for real GMAT SC.
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Public companies will be required to raise their governance game if they want to be able to compete against private firms
A. Public companies will be required to raise their governance game if they want to be able to compete against private firms
B. Public companies should raise their governance game if they wish to compete with private firms
C. Public companies would need to raise their governance game if they wish to compete against private firms
D. Public companies have to need to raise their governance game if they are to be in competition with private firms
E. Public companies will need to raise their governance game if they are to compete with private firms
A. Public companies will be required to raise their governance game if they want to be able to compete against private firms
B. Public companies should raise their governance game if they wish to compete with private firms
C. Public companies would need to raise their governance game if they wish to compete against private firms
D. Public companies have to need to raise their governance game if they are to be in competition with private firms
E. Public companies will need to raise their governance game if they are to compete with private firms
I think that sounds familiar now, I read that book a little while back but haven't really reviewed my notes. 
