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by ektamatta » Fri May 30, 2008 9:25 am
Federal authorities involved in the investigation have found the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and are suspicious of strangers.
(A) the local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and are
(B) local witnesses to be difficult to locate, reticent, and are
(C) that local witnesses are difficult to locate, reticent, and
(D) local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are
(E) that local witnesses are difficult to locate and reticent, and they are

OA is C
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by anju » Fri May 30, 2008 10:27 am
that is required after found that leaves us with options C & E.

Also to maintain parallelism "to locate, reticent, and suspicious.." they are is not requried between and & suspicious.

Hence C is the correct answer.

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