1000sc-221- Consumers

sanjaylakhani · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: 1000sc-221- Consumers

1.Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be hazardous substances, but many of them can be harmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.
(A) Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be
(B) Consumers may not think of household cleaning products being
(C) A consumer may not think of their household cleaning products being
(D) A consumer may not think of household cleaning products as
(E) Household cleaning products may not be thought of, by consumers, as

Arabian Baba · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject:

Ans. is D

Reason; Choices B and C contain the word 'Being' unnessarily.

A and E confuses us as to what the 'them' in the question refers to...
i.e. it can either refer to consumers or to detergents.

Choice D is one of the several ways to remove the confusion created by multiple pronoun references, that is to changeone of the two plural subjects to singular, the statement would be much clearer and would convey the meaning with better understanding.

sanjaylakhani · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject:

official answer -D

Can anybody shed more light here..

Mahalo · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject:

I thought (E) is more appropriate answer and more clear.
Can someone explain why (E) is not the answer.

Is it because of Passive construction?

kiranlegend · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:

Between D and E, D is better because it is active. Moreover it uses the correct idiom, if i may call it, 'think.. as'

as always in most cases usage of being is awkward