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by striker007 » Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:43 am
3)Blaming its recent troubles on a widening recession and slow rate of technology spending, the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected to report a loss in its third quarter.

(A) company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected to report a

(B) company announced that there would be a cut--10 percent of its workforce, which was more than 2,000 jobs--and expected a reported

(C) company announced the cutting of its workforce by 10 percent, more than 2,000 jobs, and it expected a reported


I eliminated (B) based on the the incorrect usage of "which " . "Which " is not supposed to modify "workforce " as it does in (b)

I eliminated (C) because "the cutting" doesn't specify who does the "cutting" , but in the original sentence it is clear that the "company" does the cutting.

Also in (b) and (c) the usage of "expected a reported loss" doesn't indicate who actually does the reporting , in the original sentence it is clear the the company does the reporting , but in (c) this is not clear .

I don't understand the difference in parallelism between

(1)"would cut " and "expected " in (A)
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(2) "announced " and "expected " in (B) and (C) , could you throw some light on the parallelism in (A) is correct and that in (B) and (C) is incorrect ?
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by Lifetron » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:58 pm
The company cuts the workforce, as per the question. In B the subject of cut is missing ! Wrong

In C "announced" and "it expected" are not parallel. Wrong. Should be "announced" and "expected".

But, I am not satisfied with A fully.

This seems more parallel, to me, than the choice A :

the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected that it would report a loss in its third quarter

"Expected to report" looks like someone else is expecting the company to report !
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by pallav.gmat » Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:14 am
gughanbose wrote:The company cuts the workforce, as per the question. In B the subject of cut is missing ! Wrong

In C "announced" and "it expected" are not parallel. Wrong. Should be "announced" and "expected".

But, I am not satisfied with A fully.

This seems more parallel, to me, than the choice A :

the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected that it would report a loss in its third quarter

"Expected to report" looks like someone else is expecting the company to report !

I believe this is one of those sentences that dont sound pleasant but are grammatically correct :)

'expected' should work as the subject is the the same ( the company ). So if it were to stand alone, it would be read as - The company expected (itself) to report a loss in its third quarter.
We dont need a 'that' after expected , but need it with announced (as it is a reporting verb)
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by patanjali.purpose » Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:35 am
striker007 wrote:3)Blaming its recent troubles on a widening recession and slow rate of technology spending, the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected to report a loss in its third quarter.

(A) company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected to report a

(B) company announced that there would be a cut--10 percent of its workforce, which was more than 2,000 jobs--and expected a reported

(C) company announced the cutting of its workforce by 10 percent, more than 2,000 jobs, and it expected a reported
Company announced 2 things (1) cut workforce and (2) report a loss. These 2 elements should be expressed in parallel form.

Second point:
1) WOULD CUT signifies Company has not yet cut the workforce but will do so in future;
2) EXPECTED signifies Company incurred a loss in 3rd quarter and it expected itself to make a loss

A - do not find any problem

B - multiple errors
(1) WHICH could refer to 10% OF WORKFORCE or just WORKFORCE - this does not make it wrong bcoz either case makes sense, but the problem is use of WAS (past tense: signifies that 10% of worksforce was more than 2000 jobs were in past, not now);
(2) WOULD BE A CUT...WAS (does not go together here - WOULD = FUTURE, WAS = PAST);
(3) EXPECTED...It could mean ANY OF THE followings:
a) THERE WOULD BE EXPECTED (wrong tense, suggest FUTURE when original sentence says EXPECTED in past,
b) or THERE WOULD EXPECTED (wrong - EXPECT required, but then it changes meaning)
c) or THERE EXPECTED a reported loss (it does not have a verb)

So all three possibilities are wrong.

C - it converts the 2 announcement in 2 independent sentence - it appears company announced the first element but did not announce the 2nd (very different meaning compared to original sentence);

IMO A
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by Lifetron » Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:21 am
pallav.gmat wrote:
gughanbose wrote:The company cuts the workforce, as per the question. In B the subject of cut is missing ! Wrong

In C "announced" and "it expected" are not parallel. Wrong. Should be "announced" and "expected".

But, I am not satisfied with A fully.

This seems more parallel, to me, than the choice A :

the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected that it would report a loss in its third quarter

"Expected to report" looks like someone else is expecting the company to report !

I believe this is one of those sentences that dont sound pleasant but are grammatically correct :)

'expected' should work as the subject is the the same ( the company ). So if it were to stand alone, it would be read as - The company expected (itself) to report a loss in its third quarter.
We dont need a 'that' after expected , but need it with announced (as it is a reporting verb)
Oh ! I didn't know that :p Could u please help me find the difference between a reporting verb and one that is not ?

Thanx pallav.gmat !
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by pallav.gmat » Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:36 am
gughanbose wrote:
pallav.gmat wrote:
gughanbose wrote:The company cuts the workforce, as per the question. In B the subject of cut is missing ! Wrong

In C "announced" and "it expected" are not parallel. Wrong. Should be "announced" and "expected".

But, I am not satisfied with A fully.

This seems more parallel, to me, than the choice A :

the computer company announced that it would cut 10 percent of its workforce--more than 2,000 jobs--and expected that it would report a loss in its third quarter

"Expected to report" looks like someone else is expecting the company to report !

I believe this is one of those sentences that dont sound pleasant but are grammatically correct :)

'expected' should work as the subject is the the same ( the company ). So if it were to stand alone, it would be read as - The company expected (itself) to report a loss in its third quarter.
We dont need a 'that' after expected , but need it with announced (as it is a reporting verb)
Oh ! I didn't know that :p Could u please help me find the difference between a reporting verb and one that is not ?

Thanx pallav.gmat !
reporting verbs are those that are bring out a sense of reporting ( I know it doesnt help !! )
The mood of the verb depends on what the sentence is trying to convey. Some examples would be - find, argue, claim, report, rule, indicate, contend, agree, etc
You will get better sense of this from newspaper articles. They use a lot of these verbs followed by a 'that+clause'.
Hope this helps. !
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