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15 Jul 2021, 23:01
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The Board of Directors of the popular publishing company has fired the C.E.O. and put up the company for restructuring, which ended a turbulent era for the firm, playing a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and implicating the president himself.
A) which ended a turbulent era for the firm, playing a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and implicating
B) and ended a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail and implicating
C) ending a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and to implicate
D) ending a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail and implicated
E) which ended a turbulent era for the firm, played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail, and implicated
15 Jul 2021, 23:04
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
This scandal had two effects: (1) it sent the President’s lawyer to jail, and (2) it implicated the President himself.
THE OPTIONS
→ which is a relative pronoun whose antecedent must be an explicitly stated noun.
Which cannot refer to a verb or the entire previous clause.
In order for which to have a proper antecedent, we would need to see the noun phrases firing the CEO and putting up the company for restructuring.
• modifier confusion
→ what does playing a key role modify? The turbulent era? The ending of a turbulent era? The actions taken by the Board?
• horrid diction
This phrasing is nearly impenetrable: playing a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and implicating
Rewrite: playing a key role in a scandal that sent the President's lawyer to jail and that implicated the President himself.
That rewritten bit should jump out at you as much more clear than the phrasing in this option.
In any event,
ELIMINATE A
If you want to be conservative, keep this option but look for a better one (namely, option D)
ELIMINATE B
→ The use of to implicate is not parallel to sending.
• unclear meaning
→ The use of campaign finance scandal does not make it clear what sent the President’s lawyer to jail.
ELIMINATE C
• which correctly refers to the noun firm
• this sentence is much more clear than any of the other options about these facts:
(1) the firm played a key role in a scandal
(2) the scandal sent the President's lawyer to jail and implicated the President himself
• the diction (choice and placement of words) in and style of this option outshine the diction in and style of the other options by a wide margin.
KEEP
• distorted meaning
Making the words ended, played, and implicated parallel distorts the meaning of the sentence by suggesting that the actions of the Board resulted in these three effects.
But the Board's actions ended a turbulent era in which firm the firm played a key role in a scandal.
The scandal—not the Board—was what sent sent the President's lawyer to jail and implicated the President himself.
ELIMINATE E
The best answer is D.
COMMENTS
The posts on this thread illustrate the value of varied posters: all of the authors accurately describe the solution to the SC question, but each does so in a slightly different way.
One of these posters (or perhaps more) will resonate with the way your mind works.
In other words, I advise everyone to keep reading this thread.
The more ways to which aspirants are exposed in answering SC questions, the more likely it is that aspirants will permanently absorb concepts.
Nicely done, everyone.
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC2)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
This sentence suggests that in putting up the company for restructuring, the Board brought to an end a turbulent era in which the firm played a key role in a scandal.
This scandal had two effects: (1) it sent the President’s lawyer to jail, and (2) it implicated the President himself.
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
• which has no antecedent
→ which is a relative pronoun whose antecedent must be an explicitly stated noun.
Which cannot refer to a verb or the entire previous clause.
In order for which to have a proper antecedent, we would need to see the noun phrases firing the CEO and putting up the company for restructuring.
• modifier confusion
→ what does playing a key role modify? The turbulent era? The ending of a turbulent era? The actions taken by the Board?
• horrid diction
This phrasing is nearly impenetrable: playing a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and implicating
Rewrite: playing a key role in a scandal that sent the President's lawyer to jail and that implicated the President himself.
That rewritten bit should jump out at you as much more clear than the phrasing in this option.
In any event,
ELIMINATE A
Quote:
The use of and before ended incorrectly suggests that the ending of the turbulent era was also an action taken by the Board. Not accurate. The fact that a turbulent era ended is actually the result of the two actions taken by the Board, not something the Board actively undertook to do.
If you want to be conservative, keep this option but look for a better one (namely, option D)
ELIMINATE B
Quote:
• parallelism error
→ The use of to implicate is not parallel to sending.
• unclear meaning
→ The use of campaign finance scandal does not make it clear what sent the President’s lawyer to jail.
ELIMINATE C
Quote:
• I do not see any errors
• which correctly refers to the noun firm
• this sentence is much more clear than any of the other options about these facts:
(1) the firm played a key role in a scandal
(2) the scandal sent the President's lawyer to jail and implicated the President himself
• the diction (choice and placement of words) in and style of this option outshine the diction in and style of the other options by a wide margin.
KEEP
Quote:
• which has no antecedent (just as is the case in option A)
• distorted meaning
Making the words ended, played, and implicated parallel distorts the meaning of the sentence by suggesting that the actions of the Board resulted in these three effects.
But the Board's actions ended a turbulent era in which firm the firm played a key role in a scandal.
The scandal—not the Board—was what sent sent the President's lawyer to jail and implicated the President himself.
ELIMINATE E
The best answer is D.
COMMENTS
The posts on this thread illustrate the value of varied posters: all of the authors accurately describe the solution to the SC question, but each does so in a slightly different way.
One of these posters (or perhaps more) will resonate with the way your mind works.
In other words, I advise everyone to keep reading this thread.
The more ways to which aspirants are exposed in answering SC questions, the more likely it is that aspirants will permanently absorb concepts.
Nicely done, everyone.
Updated on: 16 Jul 2021, 00:13
Originally posted by sumitkrocks on 16 Jul 2021, 00:12.
Last edited by sumitkrocks on 16 Jul 2021, 00:13, edited 1 time in total.
Last edited by sumitkrocks on 16 Jul 2021, 00:13, edited 1 time in total.
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A) Relative pronoun "which" can't present the action in the preceding clause
B)sent the President’s lawyer to jail and
implicating the president himself
are not parallel
C) ending a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and to implicate
Not parallel
D) ending a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail and implicated
"Which refers to "turbulent era"
Sentence is parallel
E) which ended a turbulent era for the firm, played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail, and implicated
Relative pronoun "which" can't present the action in the preceding clause
Also Verb ed modifier "played a key..." illogically modifies firm
(D) is the best for me
B)sent the President’s lawyer to jail and
implicating the president himself
are not parallel
C) ending a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal sending the President’s lawyer to jail and to implicate
Not parallel
D) ending a turbulent era for the firm, which played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail and implicated
"Which refers to "turbulent era"
Sentence is parallel
E) which ended a turbulent era for the firm, played a key role in a campaign-finance scandal that sent the President’s lawyer to jail, and implicated
Relative pronoun "which" can't present the action in the preceding clause
Also Verb ed modifier "played a key..." illogically modifies firm
(D) is the best for me
