Ecconomic Programs

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Ecconomic Programs

by gsinghal » Fri Sep 17, 2010 10:36 pm
During the early months of 2009, some economists concluded that the slew of U.S. government programs created during the fall of 2008 to stabilize an economy marked by an absence of credit, a wave of enormous asset write downs, a precipitous decline in housing prices, and a historic loss of consumer confidence has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and reviving depressed equity prices.
the slew of programs (singular subject) must be matched with has (singular verb).
A) has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and reviving depressed equity prices
B) have not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and reviving depressed equity prices
C) has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and bringing about the revival of
D) have not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and to revive depressed equity prices
E) has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows along with a revival of depressed equity prices
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by gmat_perfect » Sat Sep 18, 2010 5:40 am
gsinghal wrote:During the early months of 2009, some economists concluded that the slew of U.S. government programs created during the fall of 2008 to stabilize an economy marked by an absence of credit, a wave of enormous asset write downs, a precipitous decline in housing prices, and a historic loss of consumer confidence has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and reviving depressed equity prices.

the slew of programs (singular subject) must be matched with has (singular verb).

A) has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and reviving depressed equity prices
B) have not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and reviving depressed equity prices
C) has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and bringing about the revival of
D) have not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows and to revive depressed equity prices
E) has not succeeded in engendering healthy intra-bank credit flows along with a revival of depressed equity prices
The skull of the sentence is as follows:

The slew of the programs created to stabilize the economy marked by X, Y, and Z, and a historic loss of confidence HAS succeeded in Verbing XXX and (in) Vebring YYY.

==> The second in is understood.

It is an easy question that tests the parallelism.

Preposition + verbing: has been used in this sentence.

Answer is A.

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