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aspirant2011
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B is wrong bec "them" is plural word and it should refer back to plural thing but in the sentence its mentioned "each employee" therefore singular should be used...........
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Absolutely right...C is the answer.
GHong14 wrote:I think the answer is C!
B's issue is the pronoun agreement. Each employee should be conjoined with He/She
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In an attempt to guarantee the security of its innovative water purification method, the company required each employee to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies using an analogous purification process.
A. prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies
B. prohibiting them from the disclosing of its water purification methods to any company
C. prohibiting disclosure of its water purification methods to any company
D. that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies
E. that would prohibit its water purification methods to be disclosed to a company
Issues:
#1: See the last part of the sentence.
"..........companies using an analogous purification process.
If it were COMPANIES, we would use "analogous processes" because many companies should use many processes, though same.
--> This eliminate A and D.
#2: The pronoun "them" in the options A and D does not have a clear referent, so they are out.
#3: Prohibit X to do Y is NOT idiomatic. Eliminate E.
Answer is C.
A. prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies
B. prohibiting them from the disclosing of its water purification methods to any company
C. prohibiting disclosure of its water purification methods to any company
D. that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies
E. that would prohibit its water purification methods to be disclosed to a company
Issues:
#1: See the last part of the sentence.
"..........companies using an analogous purification process.
If it were COMPANIES, we would use "analogous processes" because many companies should use many processes, though same.
--> This eliminate A and D.
#2: The pronoun "them" in the options A and D does not have a clear referent, so they are out.
#3: Prohibit X to do Y is NOT idiomatic. Eliminate E.
Answer is C.
