Sentence Correction

The Prime Minister was so moved by the performance of the talented residents << from the orphanage that he decided to offer them jobs >> as soon as they completed their education.

(A) from the orphanage that he decided to offer them jobs

(B) of the orphanage as to offer them jobs

(C) from the orphanage as to offer them jobs

(D) of the orphanage that he decided to offer them a job

(E) of the orphanage as to offer them a job




answer is given as (B) Luv to hear ur comments on this

I believe is A.


Choice B. so as to is not idiomatic...

Choice C...same reasoning as that of B

Choice D.. offer them a job... does not sound right it should have been offer them jobs....

Choice E is totally wrong... so as to and offer them a job.... it completely messed up the sentence.

vinayjain wrote:The Prime Minister was so moved by the performance of the talented residents << from the orphanage that he decided to offer them jobs >> as soon as they completed their education.

(A) from the orphanage that he decided to offer them jobs

(B) of the orphanage as to offer them jobs

(C) from the orphanage as to offer them jobs

(D) of the orphanage that he decided to offer them a job

(E) of the orphanage as to offer them a job




answer is given as (B) Luv to hear ur comments on this

The correct answer is indeed 'B' in my view. The correct idiom structure is " So X as to Y"... Also, ' resident of ' is correct structure.

The Prime Minister was so moved by the performance of the talented residents << from the orphanage that he decided to offer them jobs >> as soon as they completed their education.

(A) from the orphanage that he decided to offer them jobs

(B) of the orphanage as to offer them jobs

(C) from the orphanage as to offer them jobs

(D) of the orphanage that he decided to offer them a job

(E) of the orphanage as to offer them a job


The answer to this SC question is (B), for two reasons:
1) "residents of" is the correct usage of the phrase. - this rules out Choices A and C.
2) The object of the sentence "residents" is plural - so the object coming in later part should be plural "jobs" and not "a job" - this rules out choices D, and E.

I was going through old posts and came across this question. I wanted to verify whether the given explanation is correct.

Rishabh wrote: ...
The answer to this SC question is (B), for two reasons:
1) "residents of" is the correct usage of the phrase. - this rules out Choices A and C.
2) The object of the sentence "residents" is plural - so the object coming in later part should be plural "jobs" and not "a job" - this rules out choices D, and E.

I agree with #1. However, #2 seems to be incorrect. I don't think, if one object of the sentence is plural then the object coming in the latter part has to be plural.

Comments???

"so that" and "so...as to" both are correct idioms, but IMO use of "so...as to" in B is wrong. B means, the PM was moved so as to (in order to) offer jobs. Offering "a job" to all residents seems awkward, but it is still feasible. Hence, although all options are incorrect, E looks like best among the lot.

IMO D. So ...as to doesn't seem right, so ..that is right. Yes, offered them jobs would be better but offer them a job is fine as well. It may be slightly illogical but nothing wrong with it grammatically.

What's the OA

sjd00d wrote:IMO D. So ...as to doesn't seem right, so ..that is right. Yes, offered them jobs would be better but offer them a job is fine as well. It may be slightly illogical but nothing wrong with it grammatically.

What's the OA

I already said “I was going through old posts and came across this question. I wanted to verify whether the given explanation is correct.” I just wanted to have discussion over this. However, the OA is, given by the poster , B.

What's the difference between "so...that..." and "so...as to..."?

If they are not the same (which I suppose is the case), then what's the rule on how to use them?

Btw, what's the source of the question?

karmayogi wrote:

sjd00d wrote:IMO D. So ...as to doesn't seem right, so ..that is right. Yes, offered them jobs would be better but offer them a job is fine as well. It may be slightly illogical but nothing wrong with it grammatically.

What's the OA

I already said “I was going through old posts and came across this question. I wanted to verify whether the given explanation is correct.” I just wanted to have discussion over this. However, the OA is, given by the poster , B.

IMO

PM cannot offer a "job"(one) to all residents. So it has to be Jobs.

Moreover if you do googling , you will see there are loads of posts using "resident from" as a word.I am not sure if in all these posts the usage of an idiom is wrong.

Also, Correct idiom is So X as to Y and So X that Y , where X and Y should be ||.

None of the option seems correct to me!

piyush_nitt wrote:

karmayogi wrote:

sjd00d wrote:IMO D. So ...as to doesn't seem right, so ..that is right. Yes, offered them jobs would be better but offer them a job is fine as well. It may be slightly illogical but nothing wrong with it grammatically.

What's the OA

I already said “I was going through old posts and came across this question. I wanted to verify whether the given explanation is correct.” I just wanted to have discussion over this. However, the OA is, given by the poster , B.

IMO

PM cannot offer a "job"(one) to all residents. So it has to be Jobs.

Moreover if you do googling , you will see there are loads of posts using "resident from" as a word.I am not sure if in all these posts the usage of an idiom is wrong.

Also, Correct idiom is So X as to Y and So X that Y , where X and Y should be ||.

None of the option seems correct to me!

Why "a job" can't be offered to all residents? Check the following sentence: "I gave a chocolate to children." Now it's upto them how to manage.

Regarding quality of question, you are right. Looks like, we all agree that this is not a good question and all options are wrong.