simplyjat wrote:At the beginning of the year, the city allocated $150 million to cover the increase in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations with the municipal labor unions.
(A) increase in wages that it expected to approve as a result of negotiations
(B) increased wages it expected to approve from negotiations
(C) increasing wages expected to be approved as a result of negotiating
(D) negotiated increases in wages it expected to approve
(E) increases expected to be approved in wages from negotiating
OA A
some criteria for elimination:
* the meaning of the original is that the city expected to approve, and thus needed to cover,
an increase in wages. in particular, you should not shift the meaning to say that they needed to cover the wages themselves.
this observation eliminates choices b (increased wages) and c (increasing wages).
* the sentence makes it clear that the negotiations hadn't yet happened, but choice d means that they
had already occurred (you can't have '
negotiated increases in wages' unless the negotiations have already taken place). so d is gone.
* choice e, quite apart from being ridiculously awkward (to a native speaker, at least), has the following faults:
- it just says that the increases were 'expected to be approved', but doesn't say
by whom they were expected to be approved. (the original makes it clear that the
city held those expectations)
- 'approved in wages' is at best awkward, and at worst implies that there is some way for an approval to be given financially via wages.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.
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