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Startup companies offering stock option

by [email protected] » Wed Dec 22, 2010 8:50 pm
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Many startup companies offer stock option incentives that allow an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to be able to invest in company stock and apportion pre-tax income to pay for the investment.
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A:incentives that allow an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to be able to invest in company stock and apportion
B:incentives that allow an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to invest in company stock and apportion
C:incentives; that allows an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to invest in company stock, to apportion
D:incentives, which allows an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to invest in company stock, apportioning
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incentives, which allow an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to be able to invest in company stock, apportioning
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by Ventsy » Wed Dec 22, 2010 10:46 pm
I will eliminate A,B,C,D on the base of:
A: ...stock and appropriation pre-tax income... - and should be used to connect two parallel words, not a noun and verb.
B: same reason
C: the use of the semicolon doesn't make sense
D: ..,which allows is singular and stocks is plural

So the correct answer has to be E
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by Haaress » Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:21 pm
IMO B. Please let me know the OA before I give my reasoning. Thanks!
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by [email protected] » Thu Dec 23, 2010 2:44 pm
The OA is "B"
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by Haaress » Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:08 pm
Thanks Archit1402 for the question and quick response. First, I have to contend that this question is a tough one , but here is my take on it.

Many startup companies offer stock option incentives that allow an employee with inadequate dispensable income for independent financial investment to invest in company stock and apportion pre-tax income to pay for the investment.

Ignore the text in italics to better understand the structure.

The question tests on 2 concepts.

1. Subject - verb agreement.
In a nutshell, the subject of the verb "allow" is "Incentives", in effect disqualifying choices C and D.
I.e Incentives that allow and NOT Incentives that allows.


2. Parallelism.

Invest is parallel to apportion.

i.e Incentives that allow an employee...................to invest ......... and apportion......... This make choices D an E incorrect.

Choice A is incorrect primarily because it is redundant (.... "to be able" is unnecessarily connected "to invest"....).

Thus, B emerges as the correct answer.
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by [email protected] » Thu Dec 23, 2010 5:08 pm
Thanks Haaress for the insightful answer. I appreciate it.
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