thephoenix wrote:added to worries about budget cuts and cost of living increases , the administrators of public health care facilities must contend with the possibility of a strike by emplyoees.
a)same
b)added to budget cuts and increases in the cost of living
c)in addition to worry about cuts in the budget and and as the cost of living increases
d)added to their worrying about budget cuts and cost of living increases
e)in addition to worrying about budget cuts and increases in the cost of living

support your ans

My pick here is C .

Budget cuts - is not a type of cuts , we need the preposition IN to have a clearer meaning .

Ex : Boston Soldier - dose not make sense we need to say A soldier FROM Boston .

Similarly Arabian Sea Salt - also dose not make sense we have to say Salt FROM Arabia Sea .

Thus we can not eliminate the preposition IN and the correct from should be cuts IN the budget and not budget cuts .

This eliminates A , B , D and E .

Please correct me if I am wrong .

"Contend with the possibility of a strike by employees" refers to an activity (to contend with sth.) . Therefore, the first part of the sentence should concern an activity as well. Thus, we need a verb. That leaves C (if worry is understood as a verb), D and E.
"budget cuts" is a perfect English idiom. There is no need to correct that. Eliminate C.

"In addition to worrying" is the proper idiom (In addition to + Gerund). Also, "increases in the cost of living" is better than "cost of living increases" as "cost of living" is a phrase, which means it can't be combined with a noun without a preposition.

Answer: E
Correct me if I'm wrong.

clickclickdecker wrote:"Contend with the possibility of a strike by employees" refers to an activity (to contend with sth.) . Therefore, the first part of the sentence should concern an activity as well. Thus, we need a verb. That leaves C (if worry is understood as a verb), D and E.
"budget cuts" is a perfect English idiom. There is no need to correct that. Eliminate C.

"In addition to worrying" is the proper idiom (In addition to + Gerund). Also, "increases in the cost of living" is better than "cost of living increases" as "cost of living" is a phrase, which means it can't be combined with a noun without a preposition.

Answer: E
Correct me if I'm wrong.

+1 for E.
However, I am not really ok with "In addition to worrying"; ""In addition to worry" in C looks better. Also, I see the flow breaking due to "and as" in C.
"cost of living increases" in C is suspicious too.

OA pls ?

Agree with E

rockeyb wrote:
My pick here is C .

c)in addition to worry about cuts in the budget and and as the cost of living increases

look for the ||ism indicator and . (X and Y ). X and Y should be ||.

in C :

X = Budget cuts (noun)
Y= as the cost of living increases (not noun)

Not parallel. Not to be picked.

Also, in this question, you are actually correcting a modifying clause, which modifies the administrators. So, if you look closely, only C (partially) and E do that job.

C can be eliminated on the basis of reasons stated above. Hence, E would be the correct answer.

Well harsha my man I have to disagree here with you .

As per your explanation :

look for the ||ism indicator and . (X and Y ). X and Y should be ||.

in C :
X = Budget cuts (noun)
Y= as the cost of living increases (not noun)

So X and Y need to be parallel .

Lets look at E :

in addition to worrying about budget cuts and increases in the cost of living

X : worrying about budget cuts - participle phrase acting as ADJECTIVE qualifying the noun administrators .

Y : increases in the cost of living - is a noun phrase .

So can these be called parallel ?

I agree with you on one point that the sentence is checking for modifiers and only C and E do the job .

guys OA is E

rockeyb wrote:Well harsha my man I have to disagree here with you .

As per your explanation :

look for the ||ism indicator and . (X and Y ). X and Y should be ||.

in C :
X = Budget cuts (noun)
Y= as the cost of living increases (not noun)

So X and Y need to be parallel .

Lets look at E :

in addition to worrying about budget cuts and increases in the cost of living

X : worrying about budget cuts - participle phrase acting as ADJECTIVE qualifying the noun administrators .

Y : increases in the cost of living - is a noun phrase .

So can these be called parallel ?

I agree with you on one point that the sentence is checking for modifiers and only C and E do the job .

rockyb,

The parallel elements that you have to look for are :

e)in addition to worrying about budget cuts and increases in the cost of living

X = Budget cuts (noun)
Y= increases in the cost of living (noun phrase)

The administrators already worry about X
and
The administrators already worry about Y.

So, worrying about applies to both X and Y and should included in both while comparison.

In addition, they now have to worry about the possibility of strike.

Let me know if it is still hazy

Harsha ,

Your explanation makes sense but I am still not sure if C is wrong .

rockeyb wrote:Harsha ,

Your explanation makes sense but I am still not sure if C is wrong .

OE says C is actually two complete s/c incorrectly connected with a comma.You wud need a period after 'feet" and a capital I in "in"

i cud not understand this; any one pls help me to understand it