This question is from the Veritas Free Question Bank. Here is the question:
In relocating to countries in Europe or Asia, U.S. companies are looking to avoid the attention brought on by moving to such obvious tax shelters as Belize, and taking advantage of the more favorable business conditions in countries like Denmark, which also have a highly skilled work force.
A) Belize, and taking advantage of the more favorable business conditions in countries like Denmark, which also have a highly skilled work force
B) Belize, and by taking advantage of the more favorable business conditions in countries like Denmark that also have a highly skilled work force
C) Belize, and take advantage of the more favorable business conditions in countries like Denmark, which also has a highly skilled work force
D) Belize, and take advantage of the more favorable business conditions in countries like Denmark, which also have a highly skilled work force
E) Belize, and are taking advantage of the more favorable business conditions in countries like Denmark, which also have a highly skilled work force
And here is the explanation from the question bank:
"This sentence correction problem is primarily concerned with sentence construction and tricky subject-verb agreement. You need to make sure that the multiple parts of the sentence are properly linked together and that there is proper agreement in the "which" clause at the end. Any time you are dealing with errors of sentence construction, the technique of slash-and-burn is particularly useful. In (A), there are two main errors: the structure "looking to avoid...and taking" is not parallel or logical (should be "looking to avoid and take") and the verb "have" after the "which" clause is also incorrect as it should be singular. The subject for that verb is the singular Denmark - the noun right beside it - and that is clear because only a country would have "a highly skilled work force", not countries. (B) contains this same agreement error as (A) - should be "has" not "have" - and the "by taking" is also incorrect as it is erroneously and illogically making that part of the sentence parallel to "by moving". (C) gets the parallelism correct: "U.S. companies are looking to avoid.....and take " Also only (C) uses the correct "has" in the which clause at the end. (D) and (E) both contain the agreement error with "have" discussed above and are thus incorrect. Answer is (C)."