The post-war development of the American welfare state is a story not

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The post-war development of the American welfare state is a story not only about a number of “wars” or individual political initiatives against poverty,  but also the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminating poverty and their concomitant social ills.

A. but also the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminating poverty and their concomitant social ills.
B. but about the growth of institutions within or outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminating poverty and its concomitant social ills.
C. but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and their concomitant social ills.
D. but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and its concomitant social ills.
E. and also for the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviating, and eliminating poverty and its concomitant social ills.

cigarboy · Answer

D. 
1. not only..but also
2. to address, alleviate, and eliminate are in parallel
3. their is used for people

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PrashantAgarwal · Answer

Hi Experts, i am confused between C and D. Why is C not correct? their could be referring to the institutions right?

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  PrashantAgarwal ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, "their" cannot refer to "institutions", as this reference would be completely illogical in this context; it makes no sense to say that the institutions eliminated their own societal ills.

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

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

But that wouldn't make any sense.

The idea that DOES make sense there is "the social ills that come with   poverty  ". So its = poverty's.

This problem depends far too much on the meaning of "concomitant" (= going together with / correlating with), by the way. GMAC's SC problems are carefully crafted so that they do NOT turn on advanced vocabulary words. (If there  is  a relatively obscure word in a GMAC problem, then either /1/ you'll be given more than enough context clues to figure out what you need to know about that word's meaning, or else /2/ the meaning of the word just won't matter all that much beyond "oh look, specific thing".

wadhwakaran · Answer

A. but also the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminating poverty and their concomitant social ills.  Incorrect as eliminating breaks the parallelism 
B. but about the growth of institutions within or outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminating poverty and its concomitant social ills. Incorrect as eliminating breaks the parallelism 
C. but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and their concomitant social ills. Incorrect as their cannot be used to refer to poverty  
D. but also about the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviate, and eliminate poverty and its concomitant social ills.  Correct 
E. and also for the growth of institutions within and outside government to address, alleviating, and eliminating poverty and its concomitant social ills. Incorrect as eliminating breaks the parallelism

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