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Congress, bills, and sick children :(

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by Domnu » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:03 am
Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers provide workers with unpaid leave so as to care for sick or newbom children.

(A) provide workers with unpaid leave so as to
(B) to provide workers with unpaid leave so as to
(C) provide workers with unpaid leave in order that they
(D) to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can
(E) provide workers with unpaid leave and

[spoiler]OA after some discussion; I got the answer correct, but I want to see what people say about the answer choices, particularly the correct one.[/spoiler]
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by abhinav85 » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:13 am
IMO D
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by Domnu » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:36 am
abhinav85 wrote:IMO D
Explanations please :)
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by vinayakdl » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:40 am
IMO Answer: D

"to provide" is needed here...
so left with B and D

use of "so as to" is improper.

Vinayak
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by hetavdave » Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:58 am
IMO - D
Correct idiom is "to provide"

that leaves us with choice B and D

In B, so as to means as if congress wants to take care of the newborn children (yeah..sure :))

hope this helps
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by vaishalijain7 » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:02 am
Don't you guys think in 'D', 'they' is ambiguous? It might refer either to 'employers' or 'workers' ?
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by Domnu » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:02 am
Sounds good. The answer is D.

I was a bit worried since I thought that 'they' didn't have a clear antecedent.
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by rahulg83 » Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:50 am
So as to...hmmm..always be vary of it, i read somewhere that GMAC guys have changed their opinion on this idiom, although it is grammatically correct..
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