While they protect employees from financial ruin, give customers peace

Question

While they protect employees from financial ruin, give customers
peace of mind, and encourage safety, corporate liability insurance
policies also provide cost certainty for companies that purchase it,

Whther it is correct to use 'it' .As for my view it is referring to 'corporate liability insurance policies '.

Correct me if i am wrong.

A. purchase it, and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk, that make

B. purchase it, and an increasingly well-publicized perk, are makers of

C. purchase it and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk that are making

D. purchase it and an increasingly well-publicized perk, for making

E. purchase it and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk, make

arunrajak · Answer

I think this question is not about parallelism but about pronoun. First 'that' is pronoun for 'companies'. And as per sentence structure second 'that' is not not required.

daagh · Answer

A. purchase it, and,  as an increasingly well-publicized perk, 
that make

B. purchase it,  and an increasingly well-publicized perk , are
makers of

C. purchase it and,  as an increasingly well-publicized perk 
that are making

D. purchase it and an increasingly well-publicized perk , for
making

E. purchase it and,  as an increasingly well-publicized perk, 
make

If you score out the parenthetical content in each the choices, then you will see only E is structurally correct.

ankitranjan · Answer

While they protect employees from financial ruin, give customers
peace of mind, and encourage safety, corporate liability insurance
policies also provide cost certainty for companies that purchase  it ,

Whther it is correct to use ' it ' .As for my view  it  is referring to 'corporate liability insurance policies '.

Correct me if i am wrong.

garimavyas · Answer

between A and E , i don't understand the placement of comma in E after 'and' .

ankitranjan also raised a valid question above.

ankitranjan · Answer

, as an increasingly well-publicized perk,  , it is describing the  corporate liability insurance policies  as an additional line which can be removed too without making much impact on the meaning of line.

saikarthikreddy · Answer

thats can we omitted here because it is non restrictive clause.

badboikilla · Answer

how come it says "purchase it" and not "purchase them"? Doesn't the pronoun   it   refer to policies?

gmatfighter12 · Answer

Yes what is the source of this question. I found myself confused with the answer as well as the correct method to approach this. Thanks.

geometric · Answer

No way is this one 700+. This is clearly E. See daagh's post above for basic explanation.

bschooladmit · Answer

,and - represents two independent ideas.

There was great deal of traffic today, and I was late to work.

Both are independent.

If it is written as,

There was great deal of traffic today, and thus I was late to work

both are dependent.

That's d difference between A and E!. A=> two independent, where as E => dependent hence E!

Please out Thursdays with Ron Videos on  AND  and  SC - Parallelism

thevenus · Answer

The sentence construction is a little tricky;

corporate liability insurance policies  also provide | cost certainty for companies that purchase it |
   AND, 
 | an increasingly well-publicized perk,
   THAT 
 |  make it easier for firms to recruit top personnel

yourpal · Answer

can you please tell why it is correct? 
policies - there should be purchase  them

daagh · Answer

Purchase it: When all the choices contain a common error, perhaps we can ignore it and go for other errors; may be this is the weird logic that is the culpirit.

Cantona · Answer

No way is "it" correct in this. Very poor question.

Also, obviously E if you have a native ear.

SOURH7WK · Answer

Here 'it' is referring to corporate policies (plural). Something wrong in this question.

thevenus · Answer

(E) purchase it and ...make it - parallel 
correct

arirux92 · Answer

Hi, here it is about the logic of sentence rather than the grammatical construction:

certainty for companies that  purchase it,
and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk, that make  it easier
for firms to recruit top personnel.

removing the apposition :

certainty for companies that purchase it and that make it easier
for firms to recruit top personnel.

implying that the companies make it easier for the insurance to recruit personnel. You are looking at the wrong parallelism. We want to make the underlined part parallel to
insurance:
a)provide cost certainty for companies that purchase it
b) make it easier for company to....

Princ · Answer

While they protect employees from financial ruin, give customers
peace of mind, and encourage safety, corporate liability insurance
policies also provide cost certainty for companies that purchase it,

Whther it is correct to use 'it' .As for my view it is referring to 'corporate liability insurance policies '.

Correct me if i am wrong.

(A) purchase it, and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk, that make
(B) purchase it, and an increasingly well-publicized perk, are makers of
(C) purchase it and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk that are making
(D) purchase it and an increasingly well-publicized perk, for making
(E) purchase it and, as an increasingly well-publicized perk,make

Bunuel · Answer

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While they protect employees from financial ruin, give customers peace

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