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by AJWILL » Tue Jul 24, 2012 1:10 am
Q)17. Although the manager agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.
[A] he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is
he said it had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor knows what everyone is
[C] he said that they would have to post the assignments on the bulletin board so that management and labor knew what everyone was
[D] he said that the schedule would have to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone was
[E] saying that the schedule had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone had been
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by kartikshah » Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:13 am
AJWILL wrote:Q)17. Although the manager agreed to a more flexible work schedule, he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is assigned to do.
[A] he said that it must be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor will know what everyone is
he said it had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor knows what everyone is
[C] he said that they would have to post the assignments on the bulletin board so that management and labor knew what everyone was
[D] he said that the schedule would have to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone was
[E] saying that the schedule had to be posted on the bulletin board so that both management and labor would know what everyone had been


I believe the correct answer should be D
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by AJWILL » Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:10 pm
Well that is exactly what i marked but the OA is A

i donnot what you found wrong with the usage of "it" i think it correctly refers to "schedule"
However, YES i did find the form of tenses used in option A and option B to be incorrect!!

But !!
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