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The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates Updated on: 02 Nov 2023, 23:56
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The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

(A) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

(B) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, so US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

(C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

(D) The United States will have relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, so to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

(E) The United States had relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
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The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

A)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
B) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, so US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
D) The United States will have relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, so to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
E) The United States had relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

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hi lucky,
you have given two choices D and E, which can be rejected without looking twice...
C is out because it changes the meaning..
Although A and B are also not entirely correct with ambiguous 'it'....
there is only one difference in the two 'as a result' vs 'so'....
may be B... but ofcourse C , the OA given should not be correct because of change in meaning
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The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

A)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
B) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, so US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
D) The United States will have relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, so to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
E) The United States had relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

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hi lucky,
you have given two choices D and E, which can be rejected without looking twice...
C is out because it changes the meaning..
Although A and B are also not entirely correct with ambiguous 'it'....
there is only one difference in the two 'as a result' vs 'so'....
may be B... but ofcourse C , the OA given should not be correct because of change in meaning
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Thanks Chetan.
Yeah the OA is B , i will edit it .
could you please shed some light on 'as a result' vs 'so' which made option A wrong ?
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Please follow the forum rules.

The question must be underlined.The question must have all the answer choices. The question must have the OA and possibly the OE if you have.

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I remained with A and B. The rest answers either change the meaning or are awkward. I chose B because I am sure that 'so' is a conjunction, which I cannot say about 'as a result'. I don't think we can unite two independent clauses with 'as a result'.
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I believe that A is incorrect since the comma connects two independent clauses. Whereas, option B uses the coordinating conjunction 'so' to connect the two clauses.
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The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

A)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
B) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, so US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
D) The United States will have relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, so to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
E) The United States had relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

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hi lucky,
you have given two choices D and E, which can be rejected without looking twice...
C is out because it changes the meaning..
Although A and B are also not entirely correct with ambiguous 'it'....
there is only one difference in the two 'as a result' vs 'so'....
may be B... but ofcourse C , the OA given should not be correct because of change in meaning

Thanks Chetan.
Yeah the OA is B , i will edit it .
could you please shed some light on 'as a result' vs 'so' which made option A wrong ?
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as a result is a CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB, and CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB doesn't convert an IC into DC.
Hence option A is a Run-On.

FANBOYS are used to join two ICs.
hence option B is correct.

please correct me if I am wrong
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The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

A)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
B) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, so US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
D) The United States will have relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, so to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
E) The United States had relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

Re-adding the topic .

hi lucky,
you have given two choices D and E, which can be rejected without looking twice...
C is out because it changes the meaning..
Although A and B are also not entirely correct with ambiguous 'it'....
there is only one difference in the two 'as a result' vs 'so'....
may be B... but ofcourse C , the OA given should not be correct because of change in meaning

Thanks Chetan.
Yeah the OA is B , i will edit it .
could you please shed some light on 'as a result' vs 'so' which made option A wrong ?
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hi lucky,
as said by desigmat, as a result' is a conjunctive adverb.. as a result will always start a new sentence..
ill give you two ways this could have been correct..
1)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates.(full stop instead of comma) As a result,(comma should be added here)US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
2)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result of which US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
this is my take on as a result and so, and i believe it should be correct...
hope it helps
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Hi All,

I want to know why C is incorrect. Clause starting off with 'resulting' accurately modifies the clause before it. It states the consequence of relaxation of overseas borrowing rules.

Anyone?

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I want to know why C is incorrect. Clause starting off with 'resulting' accurately modifies the clause before it. It states the consequence of relaxation of overseas borrowing rules.

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thirst of all:
"borrowing rules for overseas corporates" is not the same as "overseas borrowing rules for corporates"

Second:
you are right, resulting is an ING modifier that modifies the preceding clause. Nevertheless, the ing modifier must associate with SV of the clause.
This leads to a modifier error. It is not the US that resulted in US comp. to find easier ways to pay... It is the action of easing borrowing rules that leads to easier ways or introducing a new clause. To correctly use in this case a modifier, we need a noun+noun modifier.
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I want to know why C is incorrect. Clause starting off with 'resulting' accurately modifies the clause before it. It states the consequence of relaxation of overseas borrowing rules.

Anyone?

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thirst of all:
"borrowing rules for overseas corporates" is not the same as "overseas borrowing rules for corporates"

Second:
you are right, resulting is an ING modifier that modifies the preceding clause. Nevertheless, the ing modifier must associate with SV of the clause.
This leads to a modifier error. It is not the US that resulted in US comp. to find easier ways to pay... It is the action of easing borrowing rules that leads to easier ways or introducing a new clause. To correctly use in this case a modifier, we need a noun+noun modifier.
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ING form signifies a verb modifier and not a noun modifier, and these modifiers are quite flexible in their positioning. Although i agree with the point that the sentence in itself changes the meaning, i am not sure if there is a modifier error here. If you still think there is, can you please rewrite the sentence and than explain me.
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ING form signifies a verb modifier and not a noun modifier

you are not correct.
ING+comma can modify either a clause or a noun
comma+ing - modifies only the preceding clause / not verb! /. It provides either additional information or the result of the preceding clause by associating itself with the subject and verb of the preceding clause. The ing modifier preceded by a comma has to modify the subject and the verb together.
here is an interesting article by e-gmat:
https://e-gmat.com/blog/gmat-verbal/sen ... r-sentence

Furthermore, you are not right about the flexibility either. The ING modifier together with a comma has to be either in front or after a clause. ING modifier without a comma can be placed close to a noun.


C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companies now finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.

In this case, the ing modifier must associate with subject and verb of the preceding clause, but it doesn't make sense at all. It is the action of relaxation in borrowing rules that makes US based companies to easier refinance their debt. Comma+ing modifier cannot modify only a part of the clause. IF we want to keep the structure clause+modifier, we must use a noun+noun modifier. Thus, we can reformulate answer choice C:

The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, an action that now made easier for US based companies to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
ps. i ignored the overseas borrowing error.
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I have read about the usage of 'So' in one of your Blogs

Acc to that, when 'So' is used as to show the clause of consequence, it should be used in the form such as SO + [adj] + As / SO +[adj] + that
then How it is correct here?
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D and E both change the tense, so they are out.

A is a run-on sentence.

‘resulting in’ does not maintain parallelism, so C is out.



B is the right answer.
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i am confused between "as result in" in option A and "so" in option B. Can you help me with it?
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A)The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, as a result US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
This is a close close i eleminated this just for the plain reasoning that there is no resulting this the easier transaction was just a choice

B) The United States has relaxed overseas borrowing rules for corporates, so US based companies will now find it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
[color=#ed1c24]This provides the meaning as though it is a cause and effect and feels like the answer
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C) The United States has relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, resulting in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
Similar reasoning as A
D) The United States will have relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, so to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
Provides ambigious meaning
E) The United States had relaxed borrowing rules for overseas corporates, to result in US based companiesnow finding it easier to refinance their dollar loans through overseas debt.
Similar reasoning as D
Hence IMO B
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Hi experts GMATNinja carcass chetan2u KarishmaB

I chose C but choice C has a twist of words

"borrowing rules for overseas corporates" imstead of "overseas borrowing rules for corporates"

But as per my understanding “borrowing rules for overseas companies” is making much more sense. How do we evaluate this? Shall we “always” stick to original text?

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