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by mukgera » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:01 am
An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

A. a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

B. a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

C. falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

D. falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

E. falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.

OA is C but why E is wrong.
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by cans » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:28 am
causing cutbacks and starting a cycle shows these are parallel and happen simultaneously which is not correct....
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by GmatKiss » Wed Sep 14, 2011 8:50 am
I agree with cans :)
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by saketk » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:13 am
mukgera wrote:An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

A. a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

B. a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

C. falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

D. falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

E. falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.

OA is C but why E is wrong.

Hi- Are you sure you have pasted the option C correctly? If yes, then I think option C also have one error.

Pasting option C again --
falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.
1st problem -- 'Which' after the comma is incorrectly referring to investment whereas it should refer to the "falling interest rates" -- hence we need 'CAUSING' in place of 'WHICH'.

EDIT-- I forgot to add the reason why E is incorrect..

E is incorrect because :
that cause cutback' refers to 'drop in employment' - but that is not the case, it should refer to 'falling interest rates'
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by gunjan1208 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 2:31 am
let me have at it:-

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which cause cutbacks in consumer spending, starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

1- Falling emplyment causes cutback in consumenr spending
2. Falling is parallel to starting and starting leads to even lower employment rates

"Think about non-essential modifier" and ,which.......explains that....The first half of the sentence....This part of the sentence can stand even without ",which....." clause.


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