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by alanforde800Maximus » Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:25 pm
Discouraged by new data that show increases in toxic emissions from domestic factories, searches for alternative investment opportunities are being conducted by shareholders of the nation's leading manufacturing companies.
"¢ searches for alternative investment opportunities are being conducted by shareholders of the nation's leading
manufacturing companies
"¢ searches are being conducted by shareholders of the nation's leading manufacturing companies who are looking
for alternative investment opportunities
"¢ shareholders of the nation's leading manufacturing companies had begun searching for investment opportunities
outside of the manufacturing industry
"¢ the nation's leading manufacturing companies are searching for alternative investment opportunities for its
shareholders
"¢ shareholders of the nation's leading manufacturing companies are searching for alternative investment opportunities

Stuck with above SC problem, please assist.
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by Gaurav Mittal » Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:43 pm
Hi

Correct answer is E. Please confirm.

Explanation:

The sentence starts with a participle - 'Discouraged by'. Therefore, the second part of the sentence must have a subect who is getting discouraged. There are remarkable number of questions on GMAT based on this quick trick.

A -> 'Searches' cannot get discouraged. Eliminate.
B -> 'Searches' cannot get discouraged. Eliminate.
C -> no need of had. 'Had' suggests that the shareholders were searching for opportunities even before they got discouraged. Not the intended meaning.
D -> Subject - Verb disagreement. 'Companies' is plural while 'its' is for singular.
E -> Correct. 'shareholders' clearly indicates that shareholders are discouraged and after getting discouraged, they are trying to find alternatives.

Hope that clarifies.
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by Loganath Jagadeesan » Sun Sep 18, 2016 12:00 am
Hi,

Discouraged by new data that show increases in toxic emissions from domestic factories, is a Dangling modifier. if you ask the question who is discouraged? The answer is Shareholders. So they should be close this dangler. So there is an error in the question. So eliminate option A,B & D.

The options left are C, E. If you look at option C, it is not clear that the shareholders are looking for alternate investment opportunities. So C is eliminated.

The only option left is E. Hope this is clear!

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