i thought it was A. Dint read the option D properly

komal wrote:After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would be forced to accept a one billion dollar loss, an expense that would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.

(A) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would be forced to accept a one billion dollar loss, an expense that would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.

(B) As the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it accepted a one billion dollar loss; forcing its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.

(C) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, its one billion dollar loss would have to be accepted; such a loss would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy.

(D) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it was forced to accept a one billion dollar loss; its main competitor would have been forced to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.

(E) When the company recalled one of its best-selling products, a one billion dollar loss it was forced to accept, an expense that would have forced its main competitor into bankruptcy.

OA D

D

Did throgh process of elimination

of Course D

D

first part of the sentence is what happened in the "past"
second part of the sentence is a prediction

All the other options mix hem up except option [D]

get it right but use 4 minutes. I want to follow this posting

Dd it.

1st split: After vs As/when
The original statement uses "After", and there is no justification to replace it with "As/when"
=> cross B & E

A) wordy: "an expense ... if it had suffered such a loss"
C) Good candidate
D) The use of "it" is unclear: we don't know whether it refers to the subject company or its competitor

Choose C

I picked A....and the reason I picked A is because in (D) the second clause after the semicolon starts with a possessive pronoun (its).

Since semicolon should only connect independent clauses; therefore, a clause starts off with possessive pronoun shouldn't be correct, right?

"IT" can refer to both the companies!!! ALL THE OPTIONS ARE WRONG!!
Can anyone verify!!! Expert help please!!!

EXPERTS!!!
Please answer to my question!!!

C
Does not change the original intent and most concise.

komal wrote:After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would be forced to accept a one billion dollar loss, an expense that would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.

(A) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it would be forced to accept a one billion dollar loss, an expense that would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.
If the action occurred in the past, why the sentence still uses "would". Would indicates a possibility and the author is still not clear about the outcome or the author is predicting.

(B) As the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it accepted a one billion dollar loss; forcing its main competitor to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.
Normally the verbing modifier (here forcing) is used without the comma or with a comma and never with the colon.

(C) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, its one billion dollar loss would have to be accepted; such a loss would have forced its main competitor to declare bankruptcy.
Passive usage is not required in this sentence. Usage of colon is fine. Usage if would is not required.

(D) After the company recalled one of its best-selling products, it was forced to accept a one billion dollar loss; its main competitor would have been forced to declare bankruptcy if it had suffered such a loss.
Precise

(E) When the company recalled one of its best-selling products, a one billion dollar loss it was forced to accept, an expense that would have forced its main competitor into bankruptcy.
Passive usage is not required. an expense that - A noun + noun modifier correctly modifies one billion dollar loss. "into bankruptcy" is not the correct usage. Bankruptcy is not a hole where the company should go into, it is a fillings which needs to be filed.

OA D

Hence D)

[email protected] wrote:"IT" can refer to both the companies!!! ALL THE OPTIONS ARE WRONG!!
Can anyone verify!!!

Hello!

In fact, the pronoun ambiguity is the last thing you want to rely on in the process of elimination. Consider problem 105, OG13:

Marconi conceived of the radio as a tool for private conversation that could substitute for the telephone; instead, it has become...
In the correct choice "it" is technically ambiguous, but such ambiguity is acceptable on the GMAT.


There are some guidelines I follow when dealing with pronouns.

1) A pronoun should always have an antecedent. You can eliminate if there is no antecedent.
problem 98, OG Verbal Review 2:

Although Napoleon's army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had in their previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.
-- one of the wrong choices. There are no antecedents for "they" and "their", because the "army" is a collective noun and is considered singular in the US.

In the problem at hand we have an antecedent ("its main competitor").


2) Personal pronouns (it, they, he, etc.) refer to NOUNS and nouns only. If "it" in a sentence logically refers to a clause, for example, or an action denoted by a verb, then you can eliminate such choice.

problem 93, OG 13:
Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are in the world, partly because of the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and the sub-languages or dialects within it, but those who have tried counting it typically find about five thousand.

-- this is one of the incorrect answers. "It" on the GMAT can't refer to an idea of "how many languages there are".

In the problem at hand "it" refers to a noun.


3) You can eliminate (with 99% certainty that you eliminated correctly) pronouns that are structurally parallel to the wrong noun.

problem 68, OG Verbal Review 2 - a really good illustration of this point:

By offering lower prices and a menu of personal communications options, such as caller identification and voice mail, the new telecommunications company has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced them to offer competitive prices.

-- one of the wrong choices. "them" is structurally parallel to "customers" ("them" is object of a verb and "customers" is object of a verb), resulting in illogical meaning.

In this problem "it" is a subject, and its "rightful" antecedent is also a subject, so no problem here.

I would go with D
It took me some 35 seconds to solve this problem

If the full sentence is underlined, the answer possibility (in most cases) is either D or E.
So, D is better than E.