Sentence Correction

Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

A)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
B)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and stiffer penalties for bounced checks.
C)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
D)# that they are assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
E)# assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

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I think B is the correct answer because of parallelism.

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I believe E. assessing...reducing...stiffening parallel

I'd pick B. What is the OA?

I would go with B..............wats the OA?????

Sentence is using present tense so I feel E cant be correct as it's using Present Continous...........

IMO B.

Whats the OA ?

E.... Parallelism...

Here I am expecting a list of tactics, so they should be in parallel.
Also, I prefer list of nouns rather than list of actions. So I choose B over E

arora007 wrote:Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

A)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, as well as that they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
B)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and stiffer penalties for bounced checks.
C)# higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reduction or elimination of free services, and they are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
D)# that they are assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and are stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.
E)# assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

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IMO it shd be B.

I have B & E as contender.

I prefer to go with B coz it has parallel structure. E is little awkard here. If you look at the entire sentence it will become

Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are assessing higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

In order it to be parallel we need 'the' in parallel components of the sentence.

Among the tactics being used by banks to discourage small individual accounts are assessing the higher maintenance charges for accounts with low balances, reducing or eliminating the free services, and stiffening the penalties for bounced checks.

yes OA is B, indeed parallelism.