Sentence Correction

Most interns who work for pay hold positions that require few skills, little experience, and also little hope for permanent placement.

(A) little experience, and also
(B) little experience, and with
(C) little experience, and offer
(D) carry little experience, and
(E) carry little experience, and offer

Note that I found this question WITHOUT an answer. I went with C but does anyone have any idea (with an explanation) as to what it is?

The answer C you chose seems to be best suited among remaining all. I could also come up with the same.

Zach.J.Dragone wrote:Most interns who work for pay hold positions that require few skills, little experience, and also little hope for permanent placement.

(A) little experience, and also
(B) little experience, and with
(C) little experience, and offer
(D) carry little experience, and
(E) carry little experience, and offer

Note that I found this question WITHOUT an answer. I went with C but does anyone have any idea (with an explanation) as to what it is?

Hi!

This sentence is all about parallelism.

When we have a list, we have to make sure that all the parts are stated correctly. When each part of the list has the same modifier, you can just put that modifier at the beginning of the list. However, when different parts require different modifiers, you must put the relevant modifier in front of every item.

Here, the list is:

require few skills, little experience, and also little hope for permanent placement.

Our "global" modifier is "require" - so it gets read into all 3 portions. Accordingly, the original sentence really reads:

require few skills, require little experience, and also require little hope.

That last part makes no sense, so we can rule out (a).

(c) is equally problematic, since it only adds a new modifier in front of the last term but leaves the middle term empty. As a result, (c) technically reads:

require few skills, require little experience, and require offer little hope.

Only (e) properly modifies the entire list. Since each item has its own modifier, (e) correctly reads:

require few skills, carry little experience and offer little hope.

Choose (e)!