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The Federal Reserve bond buyback program has buoyed Wall Street 24 Sep 2023, 23:03
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I seem to be missing on something very fundamental here. I selected A. Please see my reason below

We can say
I did A, but i did not do B
i did A, but not B. This sentence, i believe, can be interpreted as - i did A, but (i did) not (do) B.

If my logic above is correct, how is option A incorrect
The Federal Reserve .. has buoyed .., and helped .., but (Federal Reserve.. has) yet to translate into ...

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Sure, but A and B need to be parallel.

The program has buoyed Wall Street and helped the stock market..., but yet to translate into consistent job growth

Verbs in the first two elements are underlined. But no verb in the third element. It has an infinitive only.
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The Federal Reserve bond buyback program has buoyed Wall Street 27 Sep 2023, 21:02
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I seem to be missing on something very fundamental here. I selected A. Please see my reason below

We can say
I did A, but i did not do B
i did A, but not B. This sentence, i believe, can be interpreted as - i did A, but (i did) not (do) B.

If my logic above is correct, how is option A incorrect
The Federal Reserve .. has buoyed .., and helped .., but (Federal Reserve.. has) yet to translate into ...

DanTheGMATMan, KarishmaB. Please help. Thank you.
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Option A still definitely needs parallel structure to it though- it needs at least to have a "has" before "yet"- The FR has buoyed, and helped..., but has yet to would be an improvement because you would have a parallel verb, but its still more clear to say "but it has yet to..." as in Choice D
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I really don't understand this "but it has yet" construction. Please help me understand why E is wrong or why is "it" needed.
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Can you please shed some light on whether the question is accurate and whether option E can be correct? My concerns are:

Option E - "The Federal Reserve bond buyback program has buoyed Wall Street, and helped the stock market reach record highs, but has not translated into consistent job growth across the country."

1) Is it valid to have an apostrophe after "Wallstreet", as there are 2 things that the program has done and 1 thing the program hasn't done yet. So the ideal construction should be "Did A and B, but did not do C"

2) As per the official explanation, option E was rejected for the following reason - "In (A) and (E) you cannot say: the reserve has buoyed, and helped, but yet to translate or but has not translated. Because of the “and” after the first part, a new clause must be created to follow “but”".

My concern is that though the concept of IC, and/or/but IC can apply, in this instance, we are referring to a nested construction "Did A and B, but did not do C". The subject is still the program as either usage indicates parallelism and subject can't change midway.

Requesting your inputs.

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