The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.
(A) subsidiary,
which it plans to use money from
which modifies subsidiary- the subsidiary is not planning to use the money-
wrong!(B) subsidiary,
from which it plans to use money
it- can refer to the company or the subsidiary- ambiguous
from which- modifies the subsidiary- meaning error as in A-
wrong!(C) subsidiary, and it plans
the use of money from thatthe option is awkward and passive-
wrong!(D) subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale
option D has the perfect parallelism
the parallel elements are
The company is negotiating to sell and plans to buy
verb+to verb and verb + to verb- Perfect parallelism!!!- Correct!(E) subsidiary and plans the
use of money from that salepassive voice is awkward and distorts the parallelism-
wrong! _________________
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