The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience,

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The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience, with a focus on younger consumers.

A) The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience, with a focus on younger consumers.
B) The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience, which will focus on younger consumers.
C) The new marketing campaign, designed to appeal to a wider audience, will focus on younger consumers.
D) With a focus on younger consumers, the new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience.
E) The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience and will focus on younger consumers.

$!vakumar.m · Answer

Will request verbal experts to please provide an explanation to this question.

HN93 · Answer

Can someone please explain why option E is wrong? Thanks!

sanchitb23 · Answer

Please provide an explanation for the answer

Angad2553 · Answer

E is grammatically correct if it is written as

The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience, and will focus on younger consumers.

but it does not convey the intended meaning.

The new marketing campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience and will focus on younger consumers.

here is parallelism issue

two different tenses can not be added using AND conjuction

this is what i understand

kindly correct me if m wrong

thanks

BlueDefender · Answer

Answer E is not grammatically wrong but slightly less precise in meaning compared to Answer A.

In answer A "with a focus on younger consumers" is an adverbial modifier describing how HOW the entire clause or "how the new campaign is designed" or the intention thereof whereas answer choice E separates the information as if the market campaign's design to appeal to a wider audience and it's intended focus on young people are two independent things - they're in parallel.

MeherAbhijeet · Answer

Can someone help me with the solution for this question.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  HN93 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, Option E slightly alters the meaning of the sentence; the phrase "and will focus on younger consumers" implies that the campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience and   as a separate act   will focus on younger consumers; the intended meaning is that campaign is designed to appeal to a wider audience   through   a focus on younger consumers.

We hope this helps.

All the best!
Experts' Global Team

prfs11 · Answer

Hi, I'm afraid that this is wrong. Verbs in parallel structures can very well have different tenses. Consider the (made up) example: "I woke up at 8am this morning and am currently eating lunch." Hope this helps!

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Apoorve1 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the only difference between Option D and Option A is that D is a bit less direct, making it slightly inferior.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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