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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

Not able to decide between C and D.
Someone please provide convincing reasons to pick one .... :?: :?:
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Hi,
since you are asking about the difference between Cand D, i will just touch upon these two..
D should be the correct answer and reason you should pick that up is due to parallelism.. look at the coloured portion below
Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

the second reason would be pronoun error..
Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools.... pronoun them wrongly points towards 'businesses'..

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Hi chetan2u

While I agree that option D is more parallel, I believe "while" is usually not a parallelism indicator. Option C has pronoun errors, that's why option D is more suitable. We should not necessarily look for parallelism in compound sentences which have "while".

Is my understanding correct ?
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Hello Namangupta1997,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, since "while" is a conjunction, it is, indeed, a parallelism marker; remember, any elements linked by conjunction must be parallel.

We hope this helps.
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.


A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools

C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools


This question is part of the GMAT Club Sentence Correction : Pronoun Revision Project.
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Although I chose E over D, I understand why D is idiomatically better but D has something that made me not chose it. supporters consider tax breaks, supporters of what?? is the first question that came to my head. The meaning is that Supporters of tax breaks consider tax breaks vital blah blah blah.

Can somebody please let me know what am I missing?

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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.


A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools

C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools


I was initially eliminating choices on the basis of 1st THEM(the one in red) since it could have referred to either 'Supporters' or 'tax breaks' but on observing that 1st THEM(the one in red) is repeated in all choices I let this as it is.
After this I moved to other splits: Yellow 'them' & Idiom 'Consider X Y'

However, I was not fully convinced with Answer choice D.
"...prevent them from moving vital economic development tools..."
I think it slightly changes the meaning of the sentence. Can someone share his/her view on this ?

Also, the 1st 'them' could refer to two possible antecedents. Is this a correct usage as per GMAC ?
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I agree. This construction does not make any sense.
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I was confused in option c and D because I though both the 'them' could refer back to same antecedent i.e 'businesses'.
Is there a rule that 2 pronoun cannot refer back to same antecedent?
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D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

How is the intended meaning clear in this sentence? Because it seems as if the sentence is trying to say Supporters consider tax breaks (what kind? - the kind that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them (businesses) from moving (moving what? moving vital economic development tools)), while critics denounce the tax breaks

Same as saying "I give consideration to something, while the other denounces it"

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D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

How is the intended meaning clear in this sentence? Because it seems as if the sentence is trying to say Supporters consider tax breaks (what kind? - the kind that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them (businesses) from moving (moving what? moving vital economic development tools)), while critics denounce the tax breaks

Same as saying "I give consideration to something, while the other denounces it"

Really confused, can someone help me out here
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Hi, I have underlined the main clause and not the modifier below:
Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

The essence of the statement is that supporters consider that tax breaks are vital economic development tools.
Prevent them from moving means prevent the businesses from shifting their business to some other country. So passage conveys that tax breaks are an advantage because of which businesses will not move. So tax breaks are considered vital economic development tools.

One way to think of such statements is to note the syntax Consider X, Y.
Here X will be some noun/gerund and Y will describe what X is considered to be.
In the given statement while will be starting a new clause, so we need to find the Y before that. We can see that the passage identifies 'vital economic development tools' as Y .
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.


A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools

C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

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All, in addition to the findings listed in most of the explanations, is this correct understanding?

Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award: Here "that" refers to the "supporters of tax breaks", and not the tax breaks themselves
That is why "Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments" is correct. That gives me a split of answer choices (B,D and A,C,E).
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.


A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools

C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

This question is part of the GMAT Club Sentence Correction : Pronoun Revision Project.


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All, in addition to the findings listed in most of the explanations, is this correct understanding?

Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award: Here "that" refers to the "supporters of tax breaks", and not the tax breaks themselves
That is why "Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments" is correct. That gives me a split of answer choices (B,D and A,C,E).
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No. 'that' refers to 'tax breaks' here. If 'tax breaks' doesn't make sense, we jump back to the noun before the preposition.
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.


A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools

C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools

D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools

E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

This question is part of the GMAT Club Sentence Correction : Pronoun Revision Project.


KarishmaB VeritasPrepBrian AjiteshArun

All, in addition to the findings listed in most of the explanations, is this correct understanding?

Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award: Here "that" refers to the "supporters of tax breaks", and not the tax breaks themselves
That is why "Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments" is correct. That gives me a split of answer choices (B,D and A,C,E).


No. 'that' refers to 'tax breaks' here. If 'tax breaks' doesn't make sense, we jump back to the noun before the preposition.
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Understood, thanks for the explanation! KarishmaB
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