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14 Feb 2021, 04:39
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The economy’s ability to generate and support new businesses — agents of creative destruction that bring new products and methods into the marketplace — appear to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India.
A. appear to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
B. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also China and India
C. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
D. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
E. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
A. appear to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
B. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also China and India
C. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
D. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
E. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
01 Mar 2021, 07:15
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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:
This problem can be attacked fairly quickly, as the two decision points are easy to find and assess: the subject-verb agreement choice of “appear” vs. “appears” at the start of each choice and the different choices of structure in the “not only, but also” construction. Start with the subject-verb agreement choice: the subject of the sentence the singular “the ability” but be careful as there are many plural nouns in the garbage afterwards that you need to remove with the slash-and-burn technique. Since “the ability…appear” is incorrect you can confidently eliminate (A), (B), and (C).
The only difference between the remaining two choices is the “but also in” in (D) vs. “but also” in (E). Since these constructions require strict parallelism between the parts following “not only” and “but also” you see that (D) is correct: “faltering not only IN these places, but also IN these places.” (E) lacks the necessary “in” in the second portion and is thus incorrect.
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14 Feb 2021, 19:24
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The economy’s ability to generate and support new businesses — agents of creative destruction that bring new products and methods into the marketplace — appear to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India.
Subject: The economy’s ability (Singular)
A. appear to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
S-V Error
Parallelism error
B. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also China and India
S-V Error
C. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
S-V Error
Parallelism error
D. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
No Remarks, KEEP it
E. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
Parallelism error
IMO D
Subject: The economy’s ability (Singular)
A. appear to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
S-V Error
Parallelism error
B. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also China and India
S-V Error
C. appear to be faltering in not only the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
S-V Error
Parallelism error
D. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also in China and India
No Remarks, KEEP it
E. appears to be faltering not only in the United States and Europe, but also China and India
Parallelism error
IMO D
