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French Labor Market

by csandeepreddy » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:43 am
During the past decade, the labor market in France has not been operating according to free market principles, but instead stifling functioning through its various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers.

A) principles, but instead stifling functioning through its various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers
B) principles, instead it has been functioning in a stifled manner as a result of various government regulations that restrict the hiring and firing of workers
C) principles, rather functioning despite being stifled as a result of government regulations that variously restrict worker hiring and firing
D) principles; the hiring and firing of workers is restricted there by various government regulations, its functioning being stifled
E) principles; instead, its functioning has been stifled by various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers
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by raunekk » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:49 am
imo:B
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by rohangupta83 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:01 am
imo: B

a- instead stifling functioning - awkward construction (''instead of'' is the correct idiom. Not sure you could use instead by itself.)
b- Clear - correct
c- rather than is the correct idiom (plus i personally don't like ''being'' in sentences)
d- 'there' in the sentence refers to what???
e- instead, its functioning has been stifled by various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers - is a new sentence where its refers to what? Moreover I am not sure whether this sentence can hold by itself.
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by stop@800 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:11 am
me too B
based on parallelism
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by mals24 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 3:19 am
Okk this was a tricky one.
I have 2 doubts with option B
1. what does "it" in sentence B refer to.
2. the sentence after instead is written in active voice and uses "has been" which is mostly used when the sentence is passive.

Only E uses "has been" correctly as the sentence is in passive voice. But then I'm not sure what the "its" refers to.

And using the same POE for A,C&D (which rohangupta83 used) I shortlisted E as the answer.
But it would be better if someone could give a more solid explanation for the answer.
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by Bidisha800 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:11 am
(E)

There are many clues why (B) is not right.
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by rohangupta83 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:22 am
Bidisha800 wrote:(E)

There are many clues why (B) is not right.
Bidisha, kindly tell us what makes B incorrect and E correct?

Can somebody post OA?
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by bhavika22 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:40 am
I agree E is right
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by bhavika22 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:41 am
I agree E is right
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by csandeepreddy » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:06 am
The OA is E
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by nervesofsteel » Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:41 am
E should be it..
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by acecoolan » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:14 pm
I chose 'B' as well as some of us but 'E' is the OA - and the explanation from MGMAT is ....as follows

(B) This choice incorrectly uses a comma to connect two independent clauses, thus creating a run-on sentence. Two independent clauses must be connected either by a conjunction, such as “and” or “but,” or by a semicolon.

(E) CORRECT. This answer choice correctly uses the semicolon to connect two independent but closely related clauses. In addition, the pronoun “its” clearly and unambiguously refers to the “labor market.”
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by niraj_a » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:48 am
i dunno how the MGMAT explanation makes sense but I eliminated B because it changes the meaning in a subtle manner.

nowhere in the stem do we know in what definitive manner the functioning is happening.
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by nervesofsteel » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:04 am
B) principles, instead it has been functioning in a stifled manner as a result of various government regulations that restrict the hiring and firing of workers <- wordy and incorrect

E) principles; instead, its functioning has been stifled by various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers < - short and precise thus correct

Thus IMO E
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HI EVERY ONE, please solve the problem.....................

by siddharth rastogi » Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:24 am
IMP TYPE

B OR E
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