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Hi,

Could someone explain why Simple Future Tense "Will" in Option A is wrong.

When we talk about future from past point of view we use the WOULD with base form of verb .
Below are few examples :

The scientist BELIEVED that the machine WOULD BE wonderful.
He ASKED whether I WOULD help him, but there was nothing I could do.
When I BROKE my leg, I thought I WOULD never dance again.
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The most grammatically correct and clear option among the given choices is (E):

Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States.

This option maintains a clear cause-and-effect relationship and presents the information in a straightforward manner.
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The correct answer is E. as much as it does the intellectual ferment and historical reassessments of late 19th century Black American culture.

This option maintains parallelism in the sentence structure and accurately conveys the idea that the work of Charles Chesnutt reflects both the interests of contemporary "local colorists" and the intellectual ferment and historical reassessments of Black American culture during the late 19th century.
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The reason Frances Willard founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States.


(A) The reason Frances Willard founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(B) Frances Willard founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the reason being that she believed that nationalprohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(C) The reason Frances Willard founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(D) Because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States, so Frances Willard founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

(E) Frances Willard founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States





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It’s fine to skip a few long, heavily-underlined sen- tences if you get bogged down on them. Sentences like this one can be intimidating, but they don’t have to be if you can spot the error quickly. Phrases like “the reason . . .was because” are too wordy to be cor- rect on the GMAT. Practice so you can quickly recog- nize and reject them. (D) would be OK if “so” were eliminated. As it is, stick with the most economical and logical phrase:“Willard . . .founded the . . . Union because . . .”
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