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by Dean Jones » Sun Jan 08, 2012 10:45 am
Dear Friends,

I was having problems in answering the following question.

Despite recent increases in sales and cash flow that have propelled automobile companies' common stocks to new highs, several industry analysts expect automakers, in order to conserve cash, to set dividends more conservatively than they were.

(A) to set dividends more conservatively than they were
(B) to set dividends more conservatively than they have been
(C) to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends
(D) that they will be more conservative than they were in setting dividends
(E) that they will be more conservative than they have been to set dividends


Please help.

OA after some discussions.

Regards
Deano.
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by rijul007 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 11:17 am
IMO C

A and B have an ambiguous pronoun they.. we dont know whether it refers to dividends or automakers

D and E... analysts expect automakers that that isn't idiomatically correct
should be expect to

C corrects both the errors...

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