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Analysts believe that the state-owned telephone company, with huge financial liabilities, will manage to stay afloat in the future, and there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its march towards any credible and quick revival.
A) and there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its
B) though there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its
C) but there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit their
D) despite those who feel that the company’s inability of generating healthy cash flows may limit its
E) since there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its
05 Jun 2021, 23:15
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
The sentence sets up a contrast between what analysts believe and what some others believe.
Analysts believe that the company will manage to stay afloat. Others believe that the company will fail. We need a contrast word.
• idiom
The correct idiomatic construction is inability to do something.
THE OPTIONS
→ the word and does not convey contrast
ELIMINATE A
• meaning and contrast
→ The sentence uses though to bring out the contrast between the two groups' views.
• idiom
The use of inability to is correct.
KEEP
→ The singular company requires the singular pronoun its.
ELIMINATE C
→ prepositions are followed by nouns and noun phrases, not by clauses (a clause contains a subject and a verb)
→ oddly enough, if you add "the fact that," then you can use a clause after despite as long as context allows. (Not the case here. You'd need to add "despite the fact that there are those who . . .")
Correct: Despite the fact that the campers covered the garbage cans tightly, the bears pried open the cans and had a feast.
For more on despite/in spite and despite the fact that, see this post, here.
• idiom error
→ inability of generating is unidiomatic. The correct form is inability to generate.
ELIMINATE D
→ the word since does not convey contrast.
In this instance, since means because. Replace since with because.
→ Wrong: The analysts thought the company would survive [because] there are still those who feel that the company will fail.
Causality is not contrast.
ELIMINATE E
The correct answer is B.
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Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC2)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
• meaning?
The sentence sets up a contrast between what analysts believe and what some others believe.
Analysts believe that the company will manage to stay afloat. Others believe that the company will fail. We need a contrast word.
• idiom
The correct idiomatic construction is inability to do something.
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
• meaning error
→ the word and does not convey contrast
ELIMINATE A
Quote:
• I do not see any errors
• meaning and contrast
→ The sentence uses though to bring out the contrast between the two groups' views.
• idiom
The use of inability to is correct.
KEEP
Quote:
• noun/pronoun error
→ The singular company requires the singular pronoun its.
ELIMINATE C
Quote:
• despite is a preposition and may not be followed by a full clause.
→ prepositions are followed by nouns and noun phrases, not by clauses (a clause contains a subject and a verb)
→ oddly enough, if you add "the fact that," then you can use a clause after despite as long as context allows. (Not the case here. You'd need to add "despite the fact that there are those who . . .")
Correct: Despite the fact that the campers covered the garbage cans tightly, the bears pried open the cans and had a feast.
For more on despite/in spite and despite the fact that, see this post, here.
• idiom error
→ inability of generating is unidiomatic. The correct form is inability to generate.
ELIMINATE D
Quote:
• meaning error
→ the word since does not convey contrast.
In this instance, since means because. Replace since with because.
→ Wrong: The analysts thought the company would survive [because] there are still those who feel that the company will fail.
Causality is not contrast.
ELIMINATE E
The correct answer is B.
COMMENTS
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General Discussion
01 Jun 2021, 23:50
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Analysts believe that the state-owned telephone company, with huge financial liabilities, will manage to stay afloat in the future, and there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its march towards any credible and quick revival.
A) and there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its Incorrect
and is not contain the intended meaning of sentence
B) though there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its Correct
C) but there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit their Incorrect
the state-owned telephone company singular, so their uses wrong
D) despite those who feel that the company’s inability of generating healthy cash flows may limit its Incorrect
inability of generating should be inability to generate
E) since there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its Incorrect
since is mismatch with the intended meaning of sentence
A) and there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its Incorrect
and is not contain the intended meaning of sentence
B) though there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its Correct
C) but there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit their Incorrect
the state-owned telephone company singular, so their uses wrong
D) despite those who feel that the company’s inability of generating healthy cash flows may limit its Incorrect
inability of generating should be inability to generate
E) since there are still those who feel that the company’s inability to generate healthy cash flows may limit its Incorrect
since is mismatch with the intended meaning of sentence
