neha283 wrote:
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!
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. _________________