Sentence Correction

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns
the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains,
announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its
stores are poor, they will be closed.
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores
are poor, they will be closed.
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which
accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores
because of poor sales.
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to
one-fourth of its stores.
D. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of
its stores will be closed.

OA after few explanations

Don't we need "announced that" ? Only A has this.

If that is not required, C looks like a clear winner.

I'll go with A.

Whats the OA.

I will wait fro few more explanations.

Jay - Your answer is wrong. One more chance ...

Subject is Trans world entertainment cooperation which is singular, so "they" is wrong. > Not A
Verb form " announced" require past tense.
I will choose C

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns
the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains,
announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its
stores are poor, they will be closed.
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores
are poor, they will be closed.
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which
accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores
because of poor sales.
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to
one-fourth of its stores.
D. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of
its stores will be closed.

In B the meaning is changed to make it sound as if the closing of the stroes accounted for the drop in sales. D and E are awkward construction and "announced to be closing" unidiomatic and D alters meaning. between A and C it seems "that" would be the right word to come after announced I think Kaplan refers to that as "Ellipsis", but hte problem I am having is in A the "they will be closed" implies to me that instead of the 1/4 of the stores who had poor sales "the whole company is closing" which I dont think is the intention of the sentence-this is what always drives me crazy about these things when you are trying to figure out if the meaning is altered how can you be sure the original sentence was the correct meaning. I would have to go with C

I will also go for C...
Good explanation drhomler..

Great one - drhomler

OA is C

My doubt is:

If B were:
B. it WAS closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which
accounted for its poor sales ... Could it be the right answer?

@Experts : Pls check this.

mv12 wrote:My doubt is:

If B were:
B. it WAS closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which
accounted for its poor sales ... Could it be the right answer?

@Experts : Pls check this.

It would still be wrong.

TWE announced that it was closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which
accounted for its poor sales.
The sentence above distorts the intended meaning to say that "closing up of the stores accounted for its poor sales." in the same way as the original option did. Even if we ignored that interpretation, other possible interpretation is "stores, which accounted for its poor sales". We know that the company may shut down up to 1/4 stores owing to poor sales, but this makes it seem as if they are closing up to 1/4 of only those stores that accounted for the poor sales of TWE. Hence, this would still be incorrect.

Ok its already down to A and C. I will Pick A

Reason to Eliminate C :- Corporation announced "a whole clause". I think in GMAT land, it is necessary to include a relative pronoun to introduce a clause.

Sentence would have been accepted, had it said "Corporation announced closing of one fourth of its stores because of poor sales."

Reason to stick to A :- First off, No structural mistake.
Second, GMAC has some level of pronoun ambiguity in their sentences. And as RON ( an expert with MGMAT ) has pointed out in his TWR classes that a sentence can only take pronoun ambiguity if the rest of sentences are surely not correct.

Here, they also has only one possible noun,stores.

Tell me how many of you agree with the reasoning i chose.
BTW what is the source of this Question ?????

f2001290 wrote:Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns
the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains,
announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its
stores are poor, they will be closed.
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores
are poor, they will be closed.
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which
accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores
because of poor sales.
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to
one-fourth of its stores.
D. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of
its stores will be closed.

OA after few explanations

I have a doubt on 'c' , but it seems to be the best bet.

my reason for not choosing 'a' - that(correctly used) since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they (the stores???) will be closed.
here , 'they' refers to all the stores, and so it seems incorrect.

My doubt with 'c' - isnt 'that' supposed to come after announced? [/quote]