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With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote techniques that enabled political candidates with  cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money  from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

(A) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money
(B) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in raising large amounts of money
(C) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising large amounts of money
(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money
(E) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money

Archit3110 · Answer

IMO D;
cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money
parallel structure

With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money  from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

(A) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money
(B) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in raising large amounts of money
(C) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising large amounts of money
(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money
(E) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money

madgmat2019 · Answer

(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money..........To reach and to succeed.....parallelism....correct

OA:D

vg18 · Answer

With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

(A) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money. Wordy and use of numbers of money.wrong
(B) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in raising large amounts of money. Correct
(C) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising large amounts of money. wrong use of succeding 
(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money. to be successful is better than to succeed. Wrong
(E) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money. Wordy. Wrong

exc4libur · Answer

MEANING
Consultants undertook techniques that enabled candidates to reach numerous voters and   succeed in raising money.

(A) "enabled…to be able" redundant;
(B) "to reach…and be successful" unintended;
(C) "succeeding in…" unintended;
(E) "enabled…to be able" redundant;

Ans (D)

CareerGeek · Answer

Enabled and to be able to are redundant
—> A & E are out

C is out. Voters, succeeding —> Voters are not succeeding in raising money

Enabled and successful —> Not parallel.
—> B is out

Enabled and succeed are parallel

IMO Option D

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ankaua · Answer

With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

A can be easily eliminated for the reason that money is uncountable, so proper use is "amount(-s) of money" not "numbers of money"
In addition, "techniques that enabled political candidates ~~with cash-strapped budgets~~ to be able to reach" is unnecessary wordie and redundant.

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(B) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in raising large amounts of money

I cannot find strong reason for elimination, but in comparison with D ("succeed" vs "be successful"), D wins: verb form is more preferable.

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(C) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising large amounts of money

Meaning is changed and now conveys that "reach" results in "succeeding". It looks that the meaning in A is more appropriate: "reach" and "succeed" are two parallel actions.

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(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money

- correct choice. The only issue with this choice I have is that in other thread, in which use of "ENABLE" discussed, it was pointed out that the idiomatic use is ENABLE + BARE INFINITIVE. But none of options provides us with an infinitive without "to" here

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(E) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money

"enabled.. to be able" leads to redundancy

daagh · Answer

With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote techniques that enabled political candidates with  cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money f rom enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

(A) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large numbers of money -- 1. To be able to reach is wordy and redundant. 2. Large numbers of money is unidiomatic. 
(B) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and be successful in raising large amounts of money -- succeed is preferable to be successful as per V-A-N rule. 
(C) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters, succeeding in raising large amounts of money -- Succeed is the essence of the sentence. To use a modifier 'succeeding' for that function is unstylish. 
(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money-- the correct choice. 
(E) cash-strapped budgets to be able to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money-- to be able to reach is wordy.

eakabuah · Answer

The right answer is option D.

With the advent of YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, many savvy political consultants undertook revolutionary micro-targeting and get-out-the-vote techniques that enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets  to   be able  to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising  large numbers  of money from enthusiastic and committed supporters in a short period of time.

(A) cash-strapped budgets  to be able  to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising  large numbers  of money
 to be able  is wordy and not concise. There is no need to add  to be able  to sentence since to reach logically means to be able to reach. large numbers of money? No, it should rather be large amounts of money. Eliminate option A.

(B) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and  be successful  in raising large amounts of money
Option B is grammatically correct. Let's keep option B for now.

(C) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters,  succeeding in raising large amounts of money 
Logically, succeeding in raising large amounts of money modifies political candidates with cash-strapped budgets. It could also modify the subject of the sentence savvy political consultants. Option B is not as clear as options B and D. In addition, by not making the act of raising large amounts of money parallel to  to reach numerous likely voters , the sentence implies that the main focus of using Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr is just to reach out to potential voters and this is contrary to the meaning of the sentence. Eliminate option C.

(D) cash-strapped budgets to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money
Correct. Option D is parallel and more concise than option B. This is because the verb  succeed  is more concise compared with  be successful . Eliminate option B and keep option D.

(E) cash-strapped budgets  to be able  to reach numerous likely voters and succeed in raising large amounts of money
The same error in option A is present in option E although large amounts of money is rightly used in option E. Eliminate option E.

The best answer is option D .

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

(1) The sentence must be constructed such that corresponding consequences of an action are parallel. Specifically, the sentence should read  enabled political candidates with cash-strapped budgets to x and y  where x and y are parallel.

(2) The phrase  to be able to z  is redundant and should be replaced by  to z

(3) The phrase  numbers of money should be amounts of money since number  is only used when the object in question can be counted and money cannot be counted (i.e., you do not say 1 money, 2 money, 3 money). Note: By comparison, dollars can be counted (i.e., you would say 1 dollar, 2 dollars, 3 dollars) and as a result, we would say: the number of dollars.

A. the phrase  to be able to reach  is redundant and can be shortened as follows:  to reach; large numbers of money  is not grammatically correct since money itself cannot be counted and, as a result, amount should be used instead

B. the phrase  to reach...and be successful  is not parallel

C. this sentence is set up such that succeeding modifies reaching voters instead of being a separate action on its own

D. the phrase is parallel (i.e.,  to reach...  succeed); to be able to reach  is replaced by the shorter to reach

E. the phrase  to be able to reach  is redundant and should be replaced by  to reach

apurv09 · Answer

Bunuel  can you please explain how " to reach " and "succeed " are parallel. when can we assume to add a "to" before a verb

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