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Level 700-800 - Corporate Welfare

by riteshbindal » Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:10 pm
Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.
A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

OA after some discussion.
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by rish » Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:51 pm
IMO C

A 'award to' is incorrect
B,E 'consider...to be' is incorrect

dont have a good explanation about why D is incorrect
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by Domnu » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:26 pm
Between A and C, A is less correct, since "award to" isn't necessary. So, we now have B, C, D, E. E suggests that the supporters may be moving, so we are left with B, C, D. C is awkwardly phrased. This leaves us with B and D. D is better phrased, since "to be" isn't necessary.
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by capnx » Sat Aug 22, 2009 3:55 pm
go with D

idiom: consider X Y (without to be)
B+E are out

"them" ambiguity in A + C: "prevent them from moving consider them..."

so only D is left
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by GoodThings » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:21 pm
Oh this has got "to be" B. :)
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by gmatv09 » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:18 pm
IMO E
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by nsrikanthshetty » Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:15 pm
should be D.. SVO subject verb object and the statement is fragment, so this kind of sentences are rarely given on real exam i suppose.
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by ansh.kumar » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:08 pm
imo it should be D, cuz all other choices but d suffered with modifier problem "moving"
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by mruzeful » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:53 pm
I guess D is wrong because it doesn't specify who the suppporters are.. it should be 'supporters of tax breaks'..
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by xcusemeplz2009 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:54 am
let me put my head into this......
there are two groups discussed in the sentence suppoters and critics each performing one actions , suppoters consider the tax breaks ......while critics denounce the tax breaks.......
so this brings us to B and D
and again rexamining the sentence in B tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools , use of to be looks awkard..

hence left with D

i hope atleast this time i am correct
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Re: Level 700-800 - Corporate Welfare

by ketkoag » Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:21 am
riteshbindal wrote:Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.
A. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

OA after some discussion.
i think D is best among all and free from errors..
explained in the previous posts..
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 5:54 am
+1 for D...

Suppoters Consider tax breaks...critics denounce tax breaks

Parallelism.

B has unnecessasry "to be"
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by riteshbindal » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:10 am
OA D
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