The miners were reluctant to embrace the company’s new unionization po

The miners were reluctant to embrace the company’s new unionization policy
because they thought it was merely meant to be a publicity stunt with no commitment
to contract negotiation and eventually salary increases.

Elimination Round - 1

(A) stunt with no commitment to contract negotiation and eventually salary increases
(B) stunt, having no commitment to contract negotiation and eventually salary increases
(C) stunt and did not reflect a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases
(D) stunt, reflecting a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases
(E) stunt, not one that reflected that contract negotiation and eventual salary increases was a commitment

Eventual vs Eventually - Eventually is an adverb ( by adding -ing). So it has to in turn modify an adjective salary. adverb + adjective + noun. What type of salary? An eventul salary! Doesn't make any sense. Eventually is an adjective. So, adjective + adjective + noun. Both the adjective modifying the noun "increase" What type of increase? An eventual increase. What type of increase? A salary increase! So we are left with C D E


Elimination Round - 2

(C) stunt and did not reflect a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases
(D) stunt, reflecting a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases
(E) stunt, not one that reflected that contract negotiation and eventual salary increases was a commitment

Meaning: If miners were reluctant that meant that the company was not going to increase their salary and is giving them false hopes! C says that the company will increase the salary and in E " was a commitment" was placed after eventual salary which is modifying eventual salary.

Therefore answer is C

A: "to contract...eventually salary increases" lacks parallelism.
B repeats the problem in A and is even wirse in "having no commitment".
D changes the meaning.
E is awkard in "not one that" and "was a commitment"

C is the best among 5.

E is wrong because it is not clear what ‘one’ is supposed to refer to. A is wrong because it is using an adverb to modify a noun, B does the same. D fails to convey the correct meaning, suggesting that the miners thought that the publicity stunt does reflect a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases.

C is the right answer.

(A) stunt with no commitment to contract negotiation and eventually salary increases "eventually" is in the incorrect form here. should be eventual. [color=#ff0000]Eliminate. [/color]

(B) stunt, having no commitment to contract negotiation and eventually salary increases "eventually" is in the incorrect form here. should be eventual. [color=#ff0000]Eliminate. [/color]

(C) stunt and did not reflect a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases

(D) stunt, reflecting a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases Changes meaning of sentence. Eliminate.

(E) stunt, not one that reflected that contract negotiation and eventual salary increases was a commitment Horrible. Eliminate.

Choice c doesn’t have a comma before and

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We wouldn't need a comma unless the "and" were closing a list of items separated with commas.

Hi. Can someone clarify below?

C) The miners were reluctant to embrace the company’s new unionization policy because they thought it was merely meant to be a publicity stunt and did not reflect a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases
- miners were reluctant to embrace new policy because they thought it was merely meant to be a public stunt and
miners were reluctant to embrace new policy because they thought it did not reflect a commitment to contract negotiation and salary increases

D) The miners were reluctant to embrace the company’s new unionization policy because they thought it was merely meant to be a publicity stunt, reflecting a commitment to contract negotiation and eventual salary increases
- it logically make sense that miners were reluctant to embrace company if they think new policy was merely a stunt
(stunt that reflected no commitment to contract negotiation and salary increases)

I know that D is wrong because the stunt reflected on salary increases, but are miners are still thinking that the policy is only a stunt and not thinking that the policy will reflect no commitment, although the clause(reflecting~) modifies 'stunt' all together?

I am curious if D would be wrong if D said 'no commitment to contract negotiation and did not crease salaries'

I could zero down to Option C by the process of elimination. However, can anyone explain how parallelism is maintained in 'C'

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