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by saurabhmahajan » Thu Aug 26, 2010 12:49 am
What brought the automobile company back from the verge of bankruptcy shortly after the Second World War was a special, governmentally sanctioned price increase allowed during a period of wage and price controls.

A )What brought

B) The thing that brought

C) That which brought

D )Bringing

E )What has brought


whats wrong with B ?
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by limestone » Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:23 am
I vote for A as it seems to be grammatically correct and sound better to my ears. B - also having no grammatical error - however is less concise than A. What is OA?
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by niksworth » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:26 am
A should be correct. It is a case of inverted pronoun usage, where a pronoun comes before the noun it refers to.

B - The thing that brought....was a government sanctioned price increase. Now price increase is not a thing, it is the name of an action. It is also wordy, A is more concise.
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