It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year.
(A) the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year
(B) the annual cost of illiteracy to the United States is at least $20 billion a year because of lost industrial output and tax revenues
(C) illiteracy costs the United States at least $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues
(D) $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues is the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy
(E) lost industrial output and tax revenues cost the United States at least $20 billion a year because of illiteracy.
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Option A: Wrong
The sentence formation is correct and understandable, comprehensive and logical to the audience. Nevertheless, it is not a summary version of what's required to deal with the writer's quest to find answers to the question in broader terms.
Option B: Wrong
The lost amount here is due to illiteracy and not directly to list individual output and tax revenues which are the calamities illiteracy has brought the United states and not the vice versa. The head word here, ''illiteracy'' has been replaced with the objects industrial output and to revenues
Option C: Right
This appears to be the most correct and logical in that, it expresses the views of the writer and strengthens his/her position more vividly. ''Illiteracy'' is the head-word here'', United states'' is the subject'' and industrial output and tax revenues'' is the object.
Option D: Wrong
Here, the reportage of the statement seeks to infer that cost is not negative to the united states which makes the argument further elaborate and debatable. The statement is over-specified and too lumped together to draw a concise argument.
Option E: Wrong
This statement would have been correct and appropriate but its arrangement is such that it only conveys the head-word towards the end of the statement which would not afford a layman or a lazy reader to understand quickly.
The sentence formation is correct and understandable, comprehensive and logical to the audience. Nevertheless, it is not a summary version of what's required to deal with the writer's quest to find answers to the question in broader terms.
Option B: Wrong
The lost amount here is due to illiteracy and not directly to list individual output and tax revenues which are the calamities illiteracy has brought the United states and not the vice versa. The head word here, ''illiteracy'' has been replaced with the objects industrial output and to revenues
Option C: Right
This appears to be the most correct and logical in that, it expresses the views of the writer and strengthens his/her position more vividly. ''Illiteracy'' is the head-word here'', United states'' is the subject'' and industrial output and tax revenues'' is the object.
Option D: Wrong
Here, the reportage of the statement seeks to infer that cost is not negative to the united states which makes the argument further elaborate and debatable. The statement is over-specified and too lumped together to draw a concise argument.
Option E: Wrong
This statement would have been correct and appropriate but its arrangement is such that it only conveys the head-word towards the end of the statement which would not afford a layman or a lazy reader to understand quickly.
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In A, B and D, annual and a year are redundant.BTGmoderatorDC wrote:It has been estimated that the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year.
(A) the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy in lost industrial output and tax revenues is at least $20 billion a year
(B) the annual cost of illiteracy to the United States is at least $20 billion a year because of lost industrial output and tax revenues
(C) illiteracy costs the United States at least $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues
(D) $20 billion a year in lost industrial output and tax revenues is the annual cost to the United States of illiteracy
(E) lost industrial output and tax revenues cost the United States at least $20 billion a year because of illiteracy.
Eliminate A, B and D.
E: It has been estimated...because of illiteracy.
Here, a reader could construe that illiteracy CAUSES 20 billion a year to be estimated.
Not the intended meaning.
Eliminate E.
The correct answer is C.
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In choices A, B, and D, the combined use of annual and a year is redundant. Choices A, D, and E are awkward and confused because other constructions intrude within the phrase cost... of illiteracy: for greatest clarity, cost should be followed immediately by a phrase (e.g., of illiteracy ) that identifies the nature of the cost. Choice E is particularly garbled in reversing cause and effect, saying that it is lost output and revenues rather than illiteracy that costs the United States over $20 billion a year. Choice B is wordy and awkward, and idiom requires in rather than because of to introduce a phrase identifying the constituents of the $20 billion loss. Concise, logically worded, and idiomatic, choice C is best. Hence, C is the answer.
