Sentence Correction

263.During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.
(A) funding for instructional material, never were
(B) funding for instructional material, never was
(C) funding, the instructional material, was never
(D) funding for instructional material, the products were never
(E) funding, they were never

[spoiler]whats the diff b/n never were and were never how to understand which one is correct
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Answer should be A.

I guess, from your question, it seems like you wanna know the difference between answer choices A and D.

I think D is incorrect because it is wordy and repeating the noun.

What is the OA?

xcusemeplz2009 wrote:263.During the first nine months of 1979, textbook publishers incurred substantial costs for creating products that, due to a decline in public funding for instructional material, never were sold.
(A) funding for instructional material, never were
(B) funding for instructional material, never was
(C) funding, the instructional material, was never
(D) funding for instructional material, the products were never
(E) funding, they were never

[spoiler]whats the diff b/n never were and were never how to understand which one is correct
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There is no difference. I think you are getting confused in A and D. Just remove the sentence in "," and make the sentences again.
A --> ....for creating products that never were sold --> Correct.
B --> ...for creating products that never was sold --> sub/verb disagreement.
C --> ...for creating products that was never sold --> sub/verb disagreement
D --> ...for creating products that the products were never --> products is getting repeated.
E --> ...for creating products that they were never --> Nonsense