Sentence Correction

68. Outlining his strategy for nursing the troubled
conglomerate back to health, the chief executive's
plans were announced on Wednesday for cutting the
company's huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in
assets over the next 1 months.

(A) executive's plans were announced on
Wednesday for cutting the company's huge debt
by selling nearly $12 billion in assets over the
next 18 months

(B) executive's plans, which are to cut the
company's huge debt by selling nearly
$12 billion in assets over the next 18 months,
were announced on Wednesday

(C) executive's plans for cutting the company's
huge debt by selling nearly $12 billion in
assets over the next 18 months were
announced on Wednesday.

(D) executive announced plans Wednesday to cut
the company's huge debt by selling nearly
$12 billion in assets over the next 18 months

(E) executive announced plans Wednesday that
are to cut the company's huge debt by selling
nearly $12 billion in assets over the next
18 months

[spoiler]oa:D[/spoiler]

My question is [spoiler]shouldn't D require "on" as preposition before Wednesday, or their is misprint in my book?[/spoiler]

D is perfect here .the fact is that Wednesday is acting as an adverb here and it wud be wrong to make an adverb an object of preposition "on" as u intend to make
for instance think of this sentence : he announced his plan today
it wud be wrong to say :he announced his plan on today

in the sentence i wrote "today" is acting as adverb !!
make sense ?

aditya8062 wrote:it wud be wrong to make an adverb an object of preposition "on" as u intend to make

Well, following is correct:

I prepared omlette on Wednesday

Incorrect:

I prepared omlette Wednesday.

Prepositional phrases can of course be Adverbs:

He waited in the car.

aditya8062 wrote:D is perfect here .the fact is that Wednesday is acting as an adverb here and it wud be wrong to make an adverb an object of preposition "on" as u intend to make
for instance think of this sentence : he announced his plan today
it wud be wrong to say :he announced his plan on today

in the sentence i wrote "today" is acting as adverb !!
make sense ?

you said it is acting as adverb, adverb modifying what? Can you please elaborate?

you said it is acting as adverb, adverb modifying what? Can you please elaborate?

the adverb "today" is modifying verb "announced"