That increased income from advertisements was necessary to defray the

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That increased income from advertisements  was necessary to defray the loss- es incurred by the magazine’s decline in readership quickly became apparent to the publisher. 
 
A. That increased income from advertisements 
B. Increasing the income from advertisements 
C. To increase income from advertisements 
D. Increasing advertising income 
E. They felt increased income from advertisements

Rubina11 · Answer

OA : The sentence correctly uses the noun clause That increased income from 
advertisements was necessary to defray the losses incurred by the magazine’s decline 
in readership as the subject of the verb became. None of the other constructions 
is grammatically correct.

neha283 · Answer

I marked B since it conveys the same message - increased advertising income is needed to balance the losses. Can someone tell why A is correct?

TIA!

jrk23 · Answer

That increased income from advertisements was necessary to defray the loss- es incurred by the magazine’s decline in readership quickly became apparent to the publisher.

A. That increased income from advertisements 
B. Increasing the income from advertisements 
C. To increase income from advertisements 
D. Increasing advertising income 
E. They felt increased income from advertisements

Can someone please explain - what "that" in option A refers to.....i marked B becuase i found none other option to be correct...Please explain why A is correct and not "B".

AjiteshArun · Answer

This is the sentence that option B leads to:

Increasing  the income from advertisements   was  necessary to defray the losses incurred by the magazine’s decline in readership quickly  became  apparent to the publisher.

Increasing  is the main subject here, and takes  was  as a verb. However, we have one more verb in the sentence,  became . The sentence basically says:

Increasing the income was necessary quickly became apparent.

AjiteshArun · Answer

This is not the type of  that  that refers to a noun before it. We are looking at a noun clause that acts as the subject of the sentence.

That  increased income from advertisements was necessary to defray the losses incurred by the magazine’s decline in readership  quickly became apparent to the publisher.

Here the subject of the sentence is the full  that increased income from advertisements was necessary to defray the losses incurred by the magazine’s decline in readership . The sentence basically says:

X quickly became apparent to the publisher.

And  what  quickly became apparent to the publisher?  That increased income from advertisements was necessary .

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