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Some European broadcasting executives say that they can usually buy the rights to an hour-long American television program for less than one-tenth the cost of  financing the producing of  an hour-long domestic program.

A. financing the producing of

B. financing the production of

C. the financing of the producing

D. what it costs to finance producing

E. what the cost is for financing production of

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NitishJain · Answer

B.

Problem:: the producing of

Choice b corrects that mistake "the production of"

jaisonsunny77 · Answer

In this sentence, the word "production" is meant to be used as a noun, not as a verb
In (A), (C), and (D), the word "production" is being used as a verb. Hence,    eliminate (A), (C), and (D) .

We are now left with (B) and (E).

B. financing the production of -  if you bring back a few words that precede the underlined portion, we get "....cost of financing the production of..." - There is no error here. Hence,  (B) is the right answer choice .

E. what the cost is for financing production of -  With (E), the sentence that we get is "...cost of what the cost is for..." - as you can see, we have a redundancy error here. Hence,    eliminate (E) .

stne · Answer

A. what the cost is for financing production of : +ing form for "producing" is wrong here.  INCORRECT.

B.financing the production of : production of,   CORRECT.

C. the financing of the producing : same error has in a, additionally adding "the" does not help.  INCORRECT.

D. what it costs to finance producing : same error as in a, ing form is wrong here. INCORRECT.

E.what the cost is for financing production of : Not as short and clear as option B   INCORRECT.

Ans - B

NiftyNiffler · Answer

Some European broadcasting executives say that they can usually buy the rights to an hour-long American television program for less than one-tenth the cost of  financing the producing of  an hour-long domestic program.

A gerundial form of noun is not preferable if it is available in abstract noun format. (e.g., Producing vs production -- latter is preferred )

A. financing the producing of  -- reason mentioned above

B. financing the production of  -- CORRECT
 
C. the financing of the producing  -- same as A

D. what it costs to finance producing  -- "cost of what it costs" is wrong preposition, we can't say "cost of a number", rather it should be "cost of a thing"

E. what the cost is for financing production of  -- same as D

So,  B  is the correct answer.

vipulshahi · Answer

Some European broadcasting executives say that they can usually buy the rights to an hour-long American television program for less than one-tenth the cost of  financing the producing of  an hour-long domestic program.

*Subject verb pair   - correctly used
* Tense Form   - conveys intended meaning 
* If-then clause - Not used
* Subjunctive Verb - Not Used
* Pronoun   - correctly used 
* Modifiers - Not used
* Parallelism - Not used
* Comparison - Not used
* Idioms   - seems fine

No error identified but the " financing the producing of" looks awkward , lets see further option. 
 
A.   financing the producing of

- Awkward - Incorrect

B. financing the production of

- follows the abstract word format

- Correct
 
C. the financing of the producing

- Incorrect
 
D. what it costs to finance producing

- Incorrect

E. what the cost is for financing production of

- Incorrect 
 
IMO(B)

thangvietnam · Answer

producing is a process. production is an complete action. normally, noun is prefered over doing
choice E is wordier than choice b.

miiicho · Answer

"Some European broadcasting executives say that they can usually buy the rights to an hour-long American television program for less than one-tenth the cost of what it costs to finance producing an hour-long domestic program."

Is "what" a pronoun in the instance above?
If so, what are the referent(s)?

What is the referent(s) for "it"?

Thanks

Is "what" a pronoun in the instance above? 
If so, what are the referent(s)?

What is the referent(s) for "it"?

Thanks

ChiranjeevSingh · Answer

Here's the   official explanation   provided by the GMAC for this question:

This sentence presents a claim that producing a television program in Europe costs much more than purchasing the rights to a television program produced in the United States. The underlined portion of the sentence is part of a complex noun phrase that must be worded clearly, succinctly, and idiomatically.

Option A:  It is unidiomatic to write  the producing  in place of  the production .

Option B:  Correct. This wording is clear and succinct, and uses the term  production  correctly and idiomatically.

Option C:  The phrase  the financing of  is an unnecessarily wordy substitute for  financing . The phrase  the producing an hour-long domestic program  is unidiomatic and ungrammatical.

Option D: The phrase  the cost of what it costs  is incoherently redundant.

Option E:  The phrase  the cost of what the cost is for  is incoherently redundant and verbose.

The correct answer is B.

Please note that I'm not the author of this explanation. I'm just posting it here since I believe it can help the community.

thangvietnam · Answer

Some European broadcasting executives say that they can usually buy the rights to an hour-long American television program for less than one-tenth the cost of  financing the producing of  an hour-long domestic program.

A. financing the producing of

B. financing the production of

C. the financing of the producing

D. what it costs to finance producing

E. what the cost is for financing production of

some noun has form of doing but it is a noun which can go with 
1. "the/a", the learning is good
2, possessive, my learning is good
3, plural, these learningS are good
4, prepositional phrase, the learning of this counry is good
 for example, learning is a pure noun. 'learning" has a separate item in dictionary.

in contrast, doing as a participle or gerund dose not have above characteristic. 
 'the producing a program' is wrong. direct object 'program' shows that 'producing is gerund or participle but not a noun, and so, 'the" is wrong in choice C

in choice A, the noun "producing" dose not exist in english. so , 'the producing' is wong. 'learning" exist in dictionary as a separate

official explanation for this problem is zero.

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