Jks3000 wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
Official Solution:In most industries the rising cost of support services actually passes a greater financial burden to customers; in the legal profession, for example, a current climb in the cost of court reporting has forced many attorneys to raise their hourly rates.A. has forced many attorneys to raise their hourly rates.
B. has made many attorneys raise their hourly rates.
C. has meant that many attorneys are being forced to raise their hourly rates.
D. forces many attorneys to raise their hourly rates.
E. is meaning that many attorneys are raising their hourly rates by force.
- The present perfect tense has forced does not take into account the fact that the rising costs are a current trend.
- Has made incorrectly uses the past tense; the phrase is also both informal and imprecise.
- Has meant incorrectly uses the past tense. Has meant and are being forced use inconsistent verb tenses, and are unnecessary phrases.
- The word 'forces' is correctly used.
- By force is a misplaced modifier that confuses the meaning of the sentence; is meaning is an imprecise phrase.
Answer: D
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!!Reference - Q280 OG Verbal Review 2021 The correct answer is using present perfect "HAS REDUCED" with the word "
CURRENT economic downturn"
bb Bunuel generis Please do not misguide students by posting anything that is NOT true...
The task in the GMAT tests is to find the "most effective sentence" or the best answer of the given choics. In the above mentioned
official guide question, there is no option in which a simple present is used. Therefore it cannot be concluded that present perfect "has reduced" is better than simple present "reduces". It is still not known what the OA would be, if there were an option with simple present "reduces", given the rest of the construction were identical to OA.
Now coming back to the
GMATclub tests question V02-35, I would consider simple present a more logical choice than present perfect because of the following reason:
The climb is current, i.e. in the present; therefore effect of the "climb" can either be in present or in future. Usage of past perfect implies that the many attorneys were "forced" in the past, though the effect is still there (hence present perfect: present perfect is used when the event has already happened, but its effect is still present). On the other hand simple present "forces" implies that the attorneys are forced nowadays. Therefore simple present "forces" would be more logical than present perfect "has forced", since the former is more "present" than the latter.
At the same time, it would not be sensible to eliminate an answer on the basis of a construction that appears in the OA of an
official guide question. Hence the subject question will shortly be reviewed and revised by the experts in the light of the above mentioned
official guide OA.