Tricky parallelism question

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Tricky parallelism question

by rjain84 » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:12 pm
The Federal Reserve bond buyback program has buoyed Wall Street, and helped the stock market reach record highs, but yet to translate into consistent job growth across the county.

A) and helped the stock market reach record highs, but yet to translate into consistent job growth across the county.

B) helped the stock market reach record highs, but it has yet to translate into consistent job growth across the county.

C) helped the stock market reach record highs, and has not translated into consistent job growth across the county.

D) and helped the stock market reach record highs, but it has yet to translate into consistent job growth across the county.

E) and helped the stock market reach record highs, but has not translated into consistent job growth across the county.

OA: D

I am not getting what is wrong with answer choice E?
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by faraz_jeddah » Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:11 pm
E changes the meaning of the sentence by implying that there is no chance of job growth.

While D retains the original meaning by keeping 'yet' and implying that there could be job growth in the future.

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