Sentence Correction

Every executive attending the board meeting, including the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, support the manager's proposal to expand sales into China and Japan.

a. Every executive attending the board meeting, including the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, support
b.The chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, each executives attending the board meeting supports
c. At the board meeting, every executive, including the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, supports
d. Executives at the board meeting, including the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, supports
e. Executives, including the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, each attending the board meeting, support

Source Kaptest. Correct answer c. I can't understand why ans E is wrong. Please explain.

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The simple present tense serves to express a GENERAL TRUTH.
It cannot serve to express an action happening at a particular moment.

OA: At the board meaning, every executive supports the manager's proposal.
Here, supports (simple present tense) incorrectly serves to express an action happening at a particular moment (at the board meeting).
For this reason, the OA is not viable.
I would ignore this SC.

Answer choice (E) changes the meaning. The meaning of the initial sentence is:

All the executives who went to the board meeting support the manager's proposal.

Answer choice (E), by moving the "attending the board meeting" modifier far from the word executives creates ambiguity. Perhaps it means that only those stated executives (the CEO, CFO, and COO) attended the board meeting while executives in general (perhaps even including those not at the company) support the manager's decision.

This doesn't mean that I'm 100% happy with choice (C). Had it said something like "At the board meetings," the tense might have been more workable.

I suspect that this question is a badly reworked version of the OG question contained at https://www.beatthegmat.com/each-of-hemi ... 83858.html

GMATGuruNY wrote:I received a PM requesting that I comment.

The simple present tense serves to express a GENERAL TRUTH.
It cannot serve to express an action happening at a particular moment.

OA: At the board meaning, every executive supports the manager's proposal.
Here, supports (simple present tense) incorrectly serves to express an action happening at a particular moment (at the board meeting).
For this reason, the OA is not viable.
I would ignore this SC.

Dear Mitch,

Regardless of the tense of the OA, is the usage of 'including' correct here? I recall you in other posts saying that 'including' should be preceded by plural noun but here it is singular form.

Can you please elaborate?

Mo2men wrote:is the usage of 'including' correct here?

Every executive, including the chief executive officer, the chief financial officer, and the chief operating officer, supports the manager's proposal.
Here, the portion in red seems redundant, since EVERY executive on its own conveys the INCLUSION of the three listed executives.
Another reason to ignore this SC.