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by BTGmoderatorDC » Tue Mar 06, 2018 3:26 pm
In what labour officials and lawyers view to be a ground breaking case that involved workers and social media, the National Labour Board has accused a company of illegally firing an employee after she criticized her supervisor on her Facebook page.

1) In what labour officials and lawyers view to be a ground breaking case that involved workers and social media, the National Labour Board has accused
2) In what labour officials and lawyers view to be a ground breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labour Board accused
3) Labour officials and lawyers view as a ground breaking case that involved workers and social media, the National Labour Board has accused
4) In what labour officials and lawyers view as a ground breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labour Board has accused
5) In what labour officials and lawyers are viewing as a ground breaking case involving workers and social media, the National Labour Board is accusing

What is wrong with option E?

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by ErikaPrepScholar » Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:08 am
Quick answer for this one: in general, we want to avoid using "-ing" verbs unless we have a good reason to use them (so, for instance, some was happening when something else happened). E uses a lot of "-ing" verbs without having any reason to do so. Why say labour officials and lawyers "are viewing" the case as groundbreaking? Why not say they "view" it as groundbreaking? Both tell us they currently view it as groundbreaking. And why say the NLB is accusing a company? Why not say the NLB "has accused" the company? Both imply that the accusation occurred in the past and continues into the present.

We find further support when we look at the first sentence, and see that there is no intended meaning that we lose if we don't use "-ing" verbs - the original sentence uses "view" and "has accused".

So we can eliminate E and pick D. Let me know if you'd like clarification on the other answer options as well.
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by deloitte247 » Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:03 am
Option 4 is correct because "view as a" is more grammatically construct than" view to be", also the use of the continuous tense of the verb "involve" is more appropriate than the other variation "that involved"

Option 1 is wrong because the phrase "that involved" is less appropriate than the continuous form "involving"
Option 2 is wrong because of the use of the phrase "view to be" rather than "view as a"
Option 3 is wrong due to the use of phrase "that involved" rather than the continuous tense "involving"
Option 5 is wrong because of the use of the verb "accuse" in the continuous tense, while the overall sentence structure is in the past tense
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