Sentence Correction

Added to worries about budget cuts and costs of living increases, the administrators of public health care facilities mush contend with the possibility of a strike by employees.

A) Added to worries about budget cuts and cost of living increases
B) Added to budget cuts and increases in the cost of living
C) In addition to worry about cuts int he budget and as the cost of living increases
D) Added to their worrying about budget cuts and cost of living increases
E) In addition to worrying about budget cuts and increases in the cost of living

OA E

E is the answer.

in ans a "add to" is wrong
in ans b again "added to" is wrong
ans c is completely wrong -- worry abt cuts?? and "as standard of living" (wrng)

ans d "added to their worrying"??? is wrng

must contend -- so the previous item (worry) should be on going and should contend with the future possibility (of a strike). hence in addition to about budget cuts holds good.

these r my views. pls refer a standard book for exact explanations.

please read it as hence in addition to worrying about budget cuts holds good.

"Added to" is grammatically correct, why do you say it wrong?

This is a classic GMAT modification question.

EVERY time you see an introductory phrase followed by a comma, ask yourself "does this phrase describe what comes RIGHT after the comma?"

Here, the introductory phrase is underlined, so let's start by looking after the comma:

the administrators

So, whatever comes before the comma must modify "the administrators".

Neither (a) nor (b) could modify the administrators, so those two are out.

(C) should have "worrying" instead of "worry" and the second half isn't parallel - eliminate (c).

(D) is very awkwardly worded, so unless (e) has a grammatical error, we'll get rid of (d).

(E) is gramatically correct and stylistically superior to (d): choose (e).

So in this case ,

worrying about budget costs are modifying the administrators ? Because they are the ones who would be worried ?
Right ??

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:This is a classic GMAT modification question.

EVERY time you see an introductory phrase followed by a comma, ask yourself "does this phrase describe what comes RIGHT after the comma?"

Here, the introductory phrase is underlined, so let's start by looking after the comma:

the administrators

So, whatever comes before the comma must modify "the administrators".

Neither (a) nor (b) could modify the administrators, so those two are out.

(C) should have "worrying" instead of "worry" and the second half isn't parallel - eliminate (c).

(D) is very awkwardly worded, so unless (e) has a grammatical error, we'll get rid of (d).

(E) is gramatically correct and stylistically superior to (d): choose (e).

bhumika.k.shah wrote:So in this case ,

worrying about budget costs are modifying the administrators ? Because they are the ones who would be worried ?
Right ??

Correct!

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:This is a classic GMAT modification question.

EVERY time you see an introductory phrase followed by a comma, ask yourself "does this phrase describe what comes RIGHT after the comma?"

Here, the introductory phrase is underlined, so let's start by looking after the comma:

the administrators

(C) should have "worrying" instead of "worry" and the second half isn't parallel - eliminate C

Hi Stuart why should C have worrying and not worry ?

I think main notion of this question is to play with general idea that
gmat correct answers are most precise one(some call it short)

Even in this case,if there were better choice than E we could have eliminated E saying it is bit wordy (though it is gramatically correct)
so,All options in this question are poorer than E so even so called wordy one wins...

thanks

Is there an idiom for "In addition" at the beginning of a sentence? thanks.

i feel "in addition to" is also an idiom..................................

C is wrong because it's awkward "and as cost of living increases"............................

Added to worries about budget cuts and costs of living increases, the administrators of public health care facilities must contend with the possibility of a strike by employees.

(A) Added to worries about budget cuts and costs of living increases
INCORRECT, because administrators are note getting added to the worries...

(B) Added budget cuts and increases in the cost of living
INCORRECT, because run off modifier... doesn't make any sense in the sentence.

(C) In addition to worry about cuts in the budget and as the cost of living increases
INCORRECT, because moving sentence around it turns into "the administrators of public health care facilities must contend with the possibility of a strike by employees In addition to worry about cuts in the budget and as the cost of living increases
that is, the admins must contend with the possibility of strike and worry itself (rather than worrying, they have to contend with 'worry')

(D) Added to their worrying about budget cuts and cost of living increases
INCORRECT, because admins are being added to their worrying... doesn't make any sense.

(E) In addition to worrying about budget cuts and increases in the cost of living
CORRECT, because (a) this is the only choice left (b) correctly modifies admins

mundasingh123 wrote:

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:This is a classic GMAT modification question.

EVERY time you see an introductory phrase followed by a comma, ask yourself "does this phrase describe what comes RIGHT after the comma?"

Here, the introductory phrase is underlined, so let's start by looking after the comma:

the administrators

(C) should have "worrying" instead of "worry" and the second half isn't parallel - eliminate C

Hi Stuart why should C have worrying and not worry ?

Verb+ing ; subject - the subject here is administrator. The subject has a comma before it, so we need verb+ing form to properly modify the Verb

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:This is a classic GMAT modification question.

EVERY time you see an introductory phrase followed by a comma, ask yourself "does this phrase describe what comes RIGHT after the comma?"

Here, the introductory phrase is underlined, so let's start by looking after the comma:

the administrators

So, whatever comes before the comma must modify "the administrators".

Neither (a) nor (b) could modify the administrators, so those two are out.

(C) should have "worrying" instead of "worry" and the second half isn't parallel - eliminate (c).

(D) is very awkwardly worded, so unless (e) has a grammatical error, we'll get rid of (d).

(E) is gramatically correct and stylistically superior to (d): choose (e).

Hi stuart is In addition to ... an adverbial modifier.Is it because IN is a preposition and prepositional phrases modify the action in the following clause

the official answer is A