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An important question.

by [email protected] » Thu May 17, 2012 4:45 am
Law firms and other professional services groups, academic institutions, and research divisions often have informal talent marketplaces where senior employees strive to identify the best employees junior to them and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive.

A] where senior employees strive to identify the best employees junior to them and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive.

B] in which senior employees strive and identify the best junior employees and the junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive.

C] where senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments.

D] that enable senior employees to strive and identify the best junior employees and the best junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments.

E] in which senior employees strive to identify the best junior employees and the best junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments.



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by mathbyvemuri » Thu May 17, 2012 5:11 am
A and B are out as the construct " junior employees compete for the assignments that they find most attractive" is lengthy and indirect.The construct " junior employees compete for the most attractive assignments" is straight forward and correct.
D is out due to improper parallelism: "to strive and identify" mismatches with "compete"
Now tie is between C and E.
The emphasis is more on the action taking place at "Market places" rather than the "Market Places" itself. So, IMO, "in which" is more suitable than "where".

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu May 17, 2012 7:06 am
"Where", used as a relative pronoun, should refer to an actual location, and I don't think that's what the sentence means by "informal talent marketplace." This gets rid of A and C.

B and D use "strive and identify," which is incorrect. The senior members are striving TO IDENTIFY...that's the end goal of their striving. They aren't two separate actions.

E uses "in which" correctly, keeps "stive to identify" from the original, and is a pretty good sentence overall.
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