aragonn wrote:
The newly launched healthcare scheme extends the assurance
in the provisions to reduce the risk what many analysts had predicted previously, and rather to limit the losses insurers incur from higher than expected medical claims.
(A) in the provisions to reduce the risk what many analysts had predicted previously, and rather to limit
(B) in the provisions to reduce the risk what many analysts predicted previously, rather to limit
(C) in the provisions’ ability to reduce the risk what many analysts were predicting previously, and rather to limit
(D)that the provisions will reduce the risk that many analysts had predicted previously and limit
(E) that the provisions will reduce the risk that was predicted previously by many and limiting
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CrackVerbalOfficial Explanation:
Answer - D
Concepts tested: Parallelism, Tenses
This is the sequence of events:
Event 1: Analysts predicted that there would be a risk
Event 2: The new healthcare scheme is launched. It extends the assurance that the provisions will reduce the aforementioned risk and limit the losses faced by insurers.
To bring out this sequence, we need to use the past perfect tense to refer to event 1 and the simple past tense to refer to event 2. This is correct only in option D.
The core sentence is “The newly launched scheme extends the assurance that the provisions will (1) reduce the risk that many had predicted previously and instead (2) limit the losses insurers incur…” This parallelism is missing in all options except D.
A - What’ can be used only as an interrogative pronoun or adjective to ask questions. It cannot be used in place of a relative pronoun such as ‘that’ or ‘which’. In this sentence, we need the relative pronoun ‘that’.
B – Same as A. ‘Assurance in X to Y’ is unidiomatic.
C – Same as A.
D – This option is parallel as described above.
E – Same as A.
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