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The fear among leading economists is that inflation will start to rise more quickly, potentially crimping global growth or forcing borrowing costs higher.
(A) quickly, potentially crimping global growth or forcing
(B) quickly, potentially crimping global growth or force
(C) quickly, potentially crimp global growth, forcing
(D) quickly and potentially crimp global growth, or forcing
(E) quickly and potentially crimping global growth or forcing
(A) quickly, potentially crimping global growth or forcing
(B) quickly, potentially crimping global growth or force
(C) quickly, potentially crimp global growth, forcing
(D) quickly and potentially crimp global growth, or forcing
(E) quickly and potentially crimping global growth or forcing
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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:
This problem is primarily testing an important modifier structure: participial phrases added to the end of a clause with a comma. There are also important errors of parallelism that you can use to quickly eliminate most of the incorrect answers.
In analyzing the different decision points, you should see the choices between “crimp” and “crimping,” “force” and “forcing,” and the use of “and” after quickly. (B) contains the most concrete error of parallelism as it improperly mixes the participle “crimping” with the active verb “force”. (D) contains a similar error but instead uses the active verb “crimp” with the participle “forcing.” Similarly, (C) starts with a series of two verbs connected by commas and then incorrectly makes the third a participle: “inflation will start to rise, potentially crimp, forcing…” Lastly, (E) incorrectly links the last two participles with “and” after “quickly” when it needs to be only a comma. You cannot say: “inflation will start to rise quickly and crimping and forcing”
Only (A) uses the proper structure. “crimping…or forcing..” are parallel participial modifiers added to the end of the clause to show what will happen when inflation rises quickly: “inflation will to start to rise more quickly, potentially doing this or doing that.”
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