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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

A) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B) Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
D) Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools



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Does not like any of those. Consider to be, consider as, consider to all wrong so don't know which one is right. Whats the source?
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to 02 Nov 2007, 21:55
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none of them seem correct...in B,C,D,E.....award businesses..seems wrong..will go with A but am not 100% convinced...:(
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

A) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B) Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
D) Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools
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I'll take D.
'Supporters consider.... while critics denounce'. Perfect parallelism.
Also, 'consider X Y' is the correct idiom.
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the OA was D and the source was manhattan

(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.

(B) In placing "consider" at the beginning of the sentence, this choice is able to avoid a second use of the pronoun "them," thereby correcting the pronoun issue. It also correctly replaces "award to businesses" with the more idiomatic "award businesses." However, the use of the phrase "to be" in this context is unidiomatic. The proper idiom is "consider x y" not "consider x to be y." In this case "consider tax breaks . . . vital tools" is idiomatic, while "consider tax breaks to be . . . vital tools" is not.

(C) This choice correctly replaces "award to businesses" with the more idiomatic "award businesses." However, it does not solve the pronoun problem from the original sentence. The pronoun "them" in the
phrase "prevent them from moving" clearly refers to "businesses," the immediately preceding plural noun. Yet, when the pronoun "them" is used again in the phrase "consider them vital economic development tools," its antecedent is unclear; logically, the pronoun refers to the "tax breaks," but based on its position in the sentence (near the plural noun "businesses" and the first "them" which refers back to businesses) "them" here illogically refers to the businesses.

(D) CORRECT. In placing "consider" at the beginning of the sentence, this choice is able to avoid a second use of the pronoun "them," thereby correcting the pronoun issue. It also correctly replaces "award to businesses" with the more idiomatic "award businesses."

(E) This choice avoids any pronoun ambiguity by replacing the second "them" in the original sentence
with the phrase "tax breaks." However, the repetition of "tax breaks" (which is repeated again later in the sentence) makes this choice somewhat wordy. More significant, the use of the phrase "to be" in this context is unidiomatic. The proper idiom is "consider x y" not "consider x to be y." In this case "consider tax breaks vital tools" is idiomatic, while "consider tax breaks to be vital tools" is not.
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I went for E as well.

I believe that replacing Supporters of tax breaks with Supporters consider changes the meaning of the sentence. Now you are now talking about tax breaks' supporters, but of all suppoerters in general.

JimJohn, was it Manhattan GMAT or M. Review?
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it was manhattan gmat. which one of these two is supposed to be better?
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I've heard a lot of good comments on MGMAT, not much on Manhattan review.

I wish someone could explain this.
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

A) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B) Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
D) Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E) Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools
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D is correct for me: "Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools......"



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