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by GmatKiss » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:42 am
Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors, may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A)..
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
(C) clients, like to allow
(D) clients, such as to be allowing
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of

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by Target2009 » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:41 am
IMO : A

Here's why:

B is incorrect as it is a run-on sentence.
C is incorrect since "such as" should be used here.
D is incorrect even though "such as" is used since it does not help form a complete sentence.
E is incorrect because the words after the semicolon do not form a complete sentence.
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by patanjali.purpose » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:46 pm
GmatKiss wrote:Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors, may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A)..
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow (does not connect 2nd part with 1st part of sentence using a connector)
(C) clients, like to allow (same as B; 'problem with like - like is not used for introducing phrases)
(D) clients, such as to be allowing
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of (2nd is not an independent sentence)
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by prateek_guy2004 » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:00 pm
It should be B....

(A)..
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
(C) clients, like to allow (Introduction with like)
(D) clients, such as to be allowing (dosent connect)
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of (Redundant and wordy)

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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Aug 28, 2011 4:07 pm
Just to be clear, a "run-on sentence" (sometimes called a "comma splice") is not made when a sentence is long or awkward; it occurs when two independent clauses are joined together with a comma. I walked, I fell is a run-on sentence.
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by navami » Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:05 pm
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by mankey » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:30 pm
IMO: A.

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by sam2304 » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:49 pm
IMO A.

Semicolon is used when we connect two independent clauses. Here the first clause tells about what auditors do cuz of competitive pressure and the second clause tells about how they do it.
None of the other options uses the same subject auditors and none stand independent as well connecting both the clauses with clear meaning.
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