The attorney turned down the law firm’s offer of a position because sh

Why can't "not reflecting" modify the entire preceding clause?
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ExpertsGlobal5 - Can you pls review my approach to this question ?

The attorney turned down the law firm’s offer of a position because she suspected that it was meant merely to fill an affirmative action quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting.

(A) quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting
(B) quota, having no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting
(C) quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion
(D) quota, not reflecting a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion
(E) quota, not one that reflected that minority hiring and eventual promotion was a commitment

Option A is wrong for parallelism error. As per option A, quota with no commitment to minority hiring and quota with no commitment to eventually promoting. To eventually promoting don't make sense.
Option B is wrong for modifier reason. In option B having modifies subject of previous clause i.e. "SHE"
Option C is correct as elements are parallel. As per option C, quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and quota and did not reflect a commitment to eventual promotion
Option D is wrong for modifier reason. In option D reflecting modifies subject of previous clause i.e. "SHE". Can you pls confirm if NOT is an adverb here ?
sentence is not structured in option E

Hello PanpaliaAnshul,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your queries, your analysis is largely correct.

However, it would be more accurate to describe the error in Option E along the lines of "not one that reflected that minority hiring and eventual promotion was a commitment" incorrectly modifying "affirmative action quota".

Further, "not" is indeed an adverb in Option D because "reflecting" is a present participle ("verb+ing") that serves as an adjective.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team
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