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The fall of the Berlin Wall in September 1989 inspired a period of optimism in Europe and was the precursor to forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East to West Germany, a healing of past traumas, and a historical reconciliation with countries emerging from former communist regimes.
A. forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East to West Germany
B. forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East and West Germany
C. a forging of new personal relationships as well as business partnerships between East Germany and West
D. a forging of new personal relationships and business partnerships between East and West Germany
E. a forging of new personal relationships along with business partnerships between East to West Germany
A. forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East to West Germany
B. forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East and West Germany
C. a forging of new personal relationships as well as business partnerships between East Germany and West
D. a forging of new personal relationships and business partnerships between East and West Germany
E. a forging of new personal relationships along with business partnerships between East to West Germany
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The fall of the Berlin Wall in September 1989 inspired a period of optimism in Europe and was the precursor to forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East to West Germany, a healing of past traumas, and a historical reconciliation with countries emerging from former communist regimes.
A. forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East to West Germany
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The sentence contains a list (parallelism) where the last two items are nouns (a healing ..., a historical reconciliation) but the first items are verbs (forging).
What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- A list of 3 items or more, separated by commas and and/or before the last item.
In a list of 3 or more items, all the items should be the same part of speech (all nouns, all verbs, or all adjectives), and they should be logically parallel.
In addition, between East to West Germany is incorrect. The correct idiom is between A and B.
B. forging new personal relationships and forging business partnerships between East and West Germany
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the original idiom mistake, it repeats the original Parallelism mistake. The sentence contains a list (parallelism) where the last two items are nouns (a healing ..., a historical reconciliation) but the first items are verbs (forging).
C. a forging of new personal relationships as well as business partnerships between East Germany and West
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the original Parallelism mistake. it is stylistically flawed. Using as well as instead of and is redundant.
What helps us identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign: as well as
D. a forging of new personal relationships and business partnerships between East and West Germany
This answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original question by changing the verb forging to a noun a forging. It corrects the idiom mistake by changing East to West Germany to East and West Germany.
This answer choice is also stylistically superior to other answer choices, as it uses forging of as the controlling part of a new parallelism: forging of (A) new personal relationships and (B) business partnerships. The resulting sentence is more concise.
E. a forging of new personal relationships along with business partnerships between East to West Germany
Incorrect.
While this answer choice corrects the original Parallelism mistake, it repeats the original idiom mistake. The phrase between East to West Germany is incorrect. The correct idiom is between A and B.
In addition, this answer choice is stylistically flawed, as using along with instead of and is redundant and awkward.
General Discussion
Bunuel
IMO the answe is Option B
1st: it is between .. and
so E and A are out
then correct would be East and West Germany and not East germany and West .. C is out
Between B and D : DvIs corect
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