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A 500 -level, 30s max question.
1. Spot that it is a list
2. Lists-> check parallelism errors. B, C and E are out.
3. A has awkward structure, see below.
4. Answer is D.

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The World Bank, the only one of its kind, provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.


A. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.

B. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraging co-financing.

C. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraged co-financing.

D. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

E. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, but encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.
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The World Bank, the only one of its kind, provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.


A. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.

B. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraging co-financing.

C. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraged co-financing.

D. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

E. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, but encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

Official Explanation:


The best answer is D.
Choices A, B and C all violate parallelism by putting the indirect object ahead of the verb, and for project from other public and private sources… The use of but in choice E is incorrect because encourages is not contrast to provides and gives
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The World Bank, the only one of its kind, provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.


A. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.

B. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraging co-financing.

C. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraged co-financing.

D. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

E. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, but encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

Official Explanation:


The best answer is B. Choices A, B and C all violate parallelism by putting the indirect object ahead of the verb, and for project from other public and private sources… The use of but in choice E is incorrect because encourages is not contrast to provides and gives


It has to be D not b
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The World Bank, the only one of its kind, provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.


A. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encourages co-financing.

B. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraging co-financing.

C. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and for projects from other public and private sources encouraged co-financing.

D. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, and encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

E. provides loans to developing member countries, gives technical assistance for development projects, but encourages cofinancing for projects from other public and private sources.

Hi aragonn

The answer choice is incorrectly mentioned as B.
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Thanks guys for update. changed the choices.
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