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The consultant team advised the insurance company that, in order to remain profitable through the upcoming decade, it had to diversify its long-term equity holdings, streamline its now labyrinthine claims processing systems, and to balance the added liability of senior citizens' living longer by changing its premium structure.
A. and to balance the added liability of senior citizens' living longer by changing
B. and balance the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer by changing
C. and balance the added liability of senior citizens living longer with changes to
D. balancing the added liability with senior citizens living longer to change
E. thereby balancing the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer with changes to
A. and to balance the added liability of senior citizens' living longer by changing
B. and balance the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer by changing
C. and balance the added liability of senior citizens living longer with changes to
D. balancing the added liability with senior citizens living longer to change
E. thereby balancing the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer with changes to
27 Oct 2023, 09:57
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The consultant team
----advised the insurance company
---------that, in order to remain profitable through the upcoming decade,
--------------it had to
---------------------diversify its long-term equity holdings,
---------------------streamline its now labyrinthine claims processing systems, and
---------------------to balance the added liability of senior citizens'
--------------------------------------------------------living longer
-----------------------by changing its premium structure.
Meaning: Constant advised some to Insurance company to do list of things i.e to diversify, streamline and balance
Error in the sentence:
1. Parallelism error - use of "to" in last part of the parallel list - either repeat before all the entity in list or keep it just at the start of the list
2. Meaning error - here "senior citizens' " has been used as adjective, which is showing possession
A. and to balance the added liability of senior citizens' living longer by changing
B. and balance the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer by changing
- meaning error - it should be "liability of senior citizen"
C. and balance the added liability of senior citizens living longer with changes to
- correct
D. balancing the added liability with senior citizens living longer to change
- Parallelism error
E. thereby balancing the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer with changes to
- Parallelism error
The consultant team
----advised the insurance company
---------that, in order to remain profitable through the upcoming decade,
--------------it had to
---------------------diversify its long-term equity holdings,
---------------------streamline its now labyrinthine claims processing systems, and
---------------------to balance the added liability of senior citizens'
--------------------------------------------------------living longer
-----------------------by changing its premium structure.
Meaning: Constant advised some to Insurance company to do list of things i.e to diversify, streamline and balance
Error in the sentence:
1. Parallelism error - use of "to" in last part of the parallel list - either repeat before all the entity in list or keep it just at the start of the list
2. Meaning error - here "senior citizens' " has been used as adjective, which is showing possession
A. and to balance the added liability of senior citizens' living longer by changing
B. and balance the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer by changing
- meaning error - it should be "liability of senior citizen"
C. and balance the added liability of senior citizens living longer with changes to
- correct
D. balancing the added liability with senior citizens living longer to change
- Parallelism error
E. thereby balancing the addition of liability with senior citizens living longer with changes to
- Parallelism error
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Split #1: parallelism! We have three verbs, in the infinitive form, in parallel. We have two options: we could have the word "to" repeated in all three cases, or we could say the word "to" once at the beginning, and have it apply equally to all three terms:
option #1: "to diversify …, to streamline …, and to balance …"
option #2: "to diversify …, streamline …, and balance …"
Notice, the word "streamline" in the non-underlined portion does not have the word "to" in front of it: therefore, option #1 is impossible in this sentence, so we have to choose option #2. Having the "to" in front "balance", as in (A), is incorrect. Choices (D) & (E) have the participle "balancing", which completely violates the parallelism, so these are incorrect as well. Only (B) & (C) complete the parallelism correctly.
Split #2: the correct idiom is "balance X with Y." Here, we want to balance "liability" with "changes", so the preposition directly in front of the word "changes" should be the word "with." Only (C) & (E) have this correct.
Split #3: the phrasing "added liability" is certainly more concise than "the addition of liability", and arguable the latter changes the meaning slightly as well. For both reasons, we have to reject the latter, which appears in (B) & (E): those are incorrect.
The only answer that is both grammatically and idiomatically correct is (C).
