okdongdong wrote:
When working with overseas clients, an understanding of cultural norms is at least as important as grasping the pivotal business issues for the global manager.
(A) When working with overseas clients, an understanding of cultural norms is at least as important as grasping the pivotal business issues for the global manager.
(B) When they work with overseas clients, understanding cultural norms is at least of equal importance to the global manager as grasping the pivotal business issues.
(C) For global managers working with overseas clients, understanding cultural norms is at least as important as grasping the pivotal business issues.
(D) For global managers working with overseas clients, an understanding of cultural norms is at least as important to them as that they grasp the pivotal business issues.
(E) Global managers working with overseas clients find an understanding of cultural norms to be equally important as grasping the pivotal business issues.
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OG2020 NEW QUESTION
The best way to extract the flavor from saffron threads is to soak them in liquid after pounding them
the above sentence is oa from gmatprep. i show it here to discuss .
look at choice a.
when working/ after pounding can be refer to no noun in the sentence correctly. the oa above contain no noun/agent, and "to extract", "to soak", and "after pounding" can refer to a general action , not to any noun in the sentence.
but in choice a in our problem, " global manager " appear and "when working" must refer to "manager'. but grammatically "when working" dose not refer to "manager".
I do not say that "when working" refer to "understanding", and , so, is wrong. if there is no "for the global manager" at the end of the sentence, choice a is correct possibly (except the error that "understanding of" is not parallel with "grasping issues"
one skill to realize the error of reference of to do/doing is to add SOMEONE/ FOR SOMEONE and change "doing" into "do"
we add "someone " to the oa above
The best way FOR SOMEONE to extract the flavor from saffron threads is FOR SOMEONE to soak them in liquid after SOMEONE POUND them
the above sentence is correct.
add "someone "into choice a.
when SOMEONE WORK with overseas clients, an understanding of cultural norms is at least as important as grasping OF the pivotal business issues for the global manager.
(to make it simple, suppose we have OF after "grasping". this error is not mentioned here".
the sentence is incorrect, because we have SOMEONE and global manager.
if there is an agent/performer of action in the sentence, to do/doing must refer to him/her grammatically because logically to do/doing must refer to the agent.