The logistics start-up company, funded by a group of angel investors

Answer :A
[The logistics start-up comfunded by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of its first-mover advantage, has rolled out an aggressive nationwide advertising campaign.

(A) funded by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of its first-mover advantage, has rolled out an aggressive : use of proper tenses

(B) funded by a group of angel investors and looked to make the most of its first-mover advantage, rolled out an aggressive:

Should use present perfect tense in order to state 'campign is already started from past and not over till now'

(C) funding by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of its first-mover advantage, is rolling out an aggressive

'Funding 'wrong :simple gerund

(D) which a group of angel investors have funded to make the most of its first mover advantage, has aggressively rolled out a

'Which' uncessarry

(E) having been funded by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of their first mover advantage, has rolled out an aggressive


Correct me if I'm wrong

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+1 A

(A) funded by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of its first-mover advantage, has rolled out an aggressive-A verb-ed and verb-ING modifier is perfectly parallel as marked.The verb has perfectly played the role.No error so far.Hold it
(B) funded by a group of angel investors and looked to make the most of its first-mover advantage, rolled out an aggressive-verb-ed (funded) modifier can't be in parallel with verb(looked),so wrong.and the action is still ongoing so present perfect tense should be preferred over past tense.
(C) funding by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of its first-mover advantage, is rolling out an aggressive-verb-ING modifier funding doesn't make sense and continuous tense is unnecessary.wrong
(D) which a group of angel investors have funded to make the most of its first mover advantage, has aggressively rolled out a-the modifier part starts with which completely changes the meaning.
has rolled out an aggressive campaign and has aggressively rolled out a campaign are not same.second one distorts the meaning.
(E) having been funded by a group of angel investors and looking to make the most of their first mover advantage, has rolled out an aggressive-wrong parallelism between the marked ones.

So the right answer is A.

Not at all !
Option B is a trap answer,which doesn't convey proper meaning & sells the superficial parallelism to the test taker.

Option A is correct answer.

Can anyone please explain the role played by both "ed " and "ing" modifier. What they are modifying and is the usage of both just connecting by "and" is correct

Please shed some light on the same.

jrk23 Happy to answer

As you know the participle rule: Any -ing words that are not verbs and not separated from the rest of the sentence by a comma will either be a noun, as in Playing soccer is fun, or modify another noun, as in The girl playing soccer is my sister.

So, here if 'looking' was verb then it would be sth 'is/was looking', but here it's not acting as a verb. So, it should be a modifier.
funded is also a modifier [past participle]

option A - a company was funded and looking for .... - the funding was done in the past & still looking to make....
if it was - a company was funded and looked for... - changed the meaning - the funding is done, it already looked to make .... [absurd]

You may also remember that the sequence in participle modifier matters.
The engineer fixed the problem (main clause), earning himself a promotion (comma -ing modifier)
Because the engineer fixed the problem, he earned the promotion & not the other way around.
Similarly, here, the company got funded and looking to make....
Wrong: The company is looking to make.... and then it got funded ... - NOPE

So, option A is correct and is the correct usage of parallelism.

Hope it helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
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Official Explanation:

Answer: A

(A) While funded and looking may not appear parallel at first glance, note that these are not used as verbs but as adjectives (participles) to modify the start-up company. Hence, the construction is absolutely correct because a past participle can easily parallel a present participle.

(B) The participle funded cannot parallel the verb looked.

(C) The phrase funding by a group of angel investors has no meaning because the gerund funding cannot parallel the participle looking.

(D) The singular group does not agree with the plural verb have. Also, this sentence completely distorts the meaning of the original sentence by suggesting that the funding was to make use of its first-mover advantage.

(E) The use of having been is awkward. The plural pronoun their cannot refer to the singular company.

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