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The board voted Monday to purchase new offices overseas and  if the executives had received positive evaluations they would be promoted .

(A) if the executives had received positive evaluations they would be promoted.

(B) receiving positive evaluations would be a promotion for the executives.

(C) promoting executives having received positive evaluations.

(D) promote the executives who had received positive evaluations.

(E) the executives to be promoted for having received positive evaluations.

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Abhishek009 · Answer

The board voted Monday  to  
  purchase  new offices overseas and 
 promote  the executives who had received positive evaluations. .

Correct Answer must be (D) for correct Parallelism usage....

GKomoku · Answer

The board voted Monday to purchase new offices overseas and  if the executives had received positive evaluations they would be promoted . 
 
Meaning analysis: 
Without touching error of this sentence we can more or less infer that The board voted for 2 things:
1. to purchase new offices overseas
2. to promote some executives with some positive evaluations

Error analysis: 
"and" //ism marker is in non-underlined portion, so it is clear indicator.
We have to go though answer choices and find something to be // to some part of the preceding part of "and"

"had received" is correct, seems the author wants to say that the executives received positive evaluations before the voting action. 
"if" is wrong, we don't have anything to be // to "if"
"they would be promoted" - they refers of plural executives, but this construction seems awkward.

(A)  if  the executives had received positive evaluations they would be promoted.

(B)  receiving  positive evaluations would be a promotion for the executives. 
  ("receiving" there is nothing to be //) 
 
(C)  promoting  executives having received positive evaluations.
  (same as (B), "receiving" there is nothing to be //) 
 
(E)  the executives  to be promoted for having received positive evaluations.
  (okay, we have noun "executives, it can be // to noun offices, but this is a complete disaster)

(D) promote the executives who had received positive evaluations.   
clear and concise

D   is the answer

Archit3110 · Answer

Parallel sentence
The board is doing two things here:
 to purchase new offices overseas and promote the executives

VeritasKarishma  &  daagh   daagh 
I have a question ; although the option D is parallel , but had the option D had  to   promote the executives   wouldn't it then had been a better answer option?

in case we had two answer choices :

1. promote the executives who had received positive evaluations

2 to promote the executives who had received positive evaluations

which one would have been correct?

aggvipul · Answer

The question tests parallelism, and the best answer seems to be option D. However I think "to promote" would make it a better version

Ashokshiva · Answer

Hi

The word 'to' that is used before the word "purchase" can extend after the conjunction "and" to mean "to promote"

Hence I think repetition of "to" is not really required before the word " promote".

Thanks

daagh · Answer

Archit,

Yes, I agree with you. As a matter of style, it might be ok to skip the second infinitive marker if you are joining two related things. For example, you might say that the Board voted to establish new offices overseas and recruit the junior staff for those offices from the locals. However, if you are talking about opening new offices overseas and in the same breath, talk about rewarding good performance, which is totally unrelated to the earlier factor, then, I think it will be better to use the infinitive marker for the second arm too.

sudarshan22 · Answer

Official Explanation :

The sentence provides a list of two things that the board voted to do. The first decision,  to purchase an overseas office , should be parallel in form to the second decision  if executives had received positive evaluations they would be promoted . The sentence lacks parallelism and is passive, so  (A)  is incorrect.

Both  (B)  and  (C)  use the gerund form of verbs, so that you have  to purchase  listed with  having received  or  receiving , neither of which is parallel.

Choice (E)  similarly lacks parallelism so it is incorrect. The correct answer is  (D) .

duttan · Answer

' The board voted Monday...', should it not be 'on Monday'?

AndrewN · Answer

Strictly speaking,  duttan , there is a missing preposition. But this is a case in which the preposition can be omitted, kind of like saying,  Three days ago, I watched a movie  rather than,    three days ago, I watched a movie . Even if the day came first, it would still be acceptable in everyday parlance to say,  Monday, the board voted...  Language is such a strange creature, I think we can agree.

- Andrew

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