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Tax evasion and fraud are wealth distortion mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate wealth with the support that same society.
A. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate
B. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to continue to accumulate
C. mechanisms; that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, to continue to accumulate
D. mechanisms, which enables the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, accumulating
E. programs, which enable the owners and controllers of wealth to be able to escape their responsibilities to society, continuing to accumulate
A. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate
B. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to continue to accumulate
C. mechanisms; that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, to continue to accumulate
D. mechanisms, which enables the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, accumulating
E. programs, which enable the owners and controllers of wealth to be able to escape their responsibilities to society, continuing to accumulate
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Tax evasion and fraud are wealth distortion mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate wealth with the support that same society.
A. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate -> "enable" already includes ability. to be able to is redundant.
B. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to continue to accumulate -> correct, with correct parallelism between "to escape" and "to continue"
C. mechanisms; that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, to continue to accumulate -> the second part after a semi-colon must also be an independent clause. here, it is not.
D. mechanisms, which enables the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, accumulating -> "that" is better since the description is an important part of the statement. "enables" is wrong. it should be enable. "accumulating...." creates an incomplete sentence - if you remove the part between commas, you don't have a complete sentence with a main verb.
E. programs, which enable the owners and controllers of wealth to be able to escape their responsibilities to society, continuing to accumulate -> change of meaning. programs and mechanisms are not the same thing. again, sentence is incomplete.
A. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate -> "enable" already includes ability. to be able to is redundant.
B. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to continue to accumulate -> correct, with correct parallelism between "to escape" and "to continue"
C. mechanisms; that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, to continue to accumulate -> the second part after a semi-colon must also be an independent clause. here, it is not.
D. mechanisms, which enables the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, accumulating -> "that" is better since the description is an important part of the statement. "enables" is wrong. it should be enable. "accumulating...." creates an incomplete sentence - if you remove the part between commas, you don't have a complete sentence with a main verb.
E. programs, which enable the owners and controllers of wealth to be able to escape their responsibilities to society, continuing to accumulate -> change of meaning. programs and mechanisms are not the same thing. again, sentence is incomplete.
Answer is (B).
Reasons are inline.
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Tax evasion and fraud are wealth distortion mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate wealth with the support that same society.
A. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate
B. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to continue to accumulate
C. mechanisms; that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, to continue to accumulate
D. mechanisms, which enables the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, accumulating
E. programs, which enable the owners and controllers of wealth to be able to escape their responsibilities to society, continuing to accumulate
A. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to be able to continue to accumulate
B. mechanisms that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society and to continue to accumulate
C. mechanisms; that enable the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, to continue to accumulate
D. mechanisms, which enables the owners and controllers of wealth to escape their responsibilities to society, accumulating
E. programs, which enable the owners and controllers of wealth to be able to escape their responsibilities to society, continuing to accumulate
Official Explanation
Creating a filter: in this question, the phrase "to be able to continue" is defective, because "to be able" is redundant with "enable," which comes earlier in the sentence and governs the infinitive "to be able." At that point in the sentence we are still within the scope of what's "enabled."
Applying the filter, we'll consider (A) out and scan for other answer choices we can eliminate on the same grounds; the only one is (E).
Further notes: (B) is essentially a corrected version of (A). (C) has an improper semicolon usage; semicolons are used to connect two independent clauses without a conjunction. Choice (D) also is flawed, most obviously because "enables" is grammatically singular and can't match anything that comes with it.
The correct answer is (B).
