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by imskpwr » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:49 am
An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.


a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which cause people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, that cause cutbacks in consumer spending and the start of a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.
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by ankit0411 » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:24 pm
imskpwr wrote:An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.


a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which cause people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, that cause cutbacks in consumer spending and the start of a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.
I will go with option C . Please post the OA . And also discuss if the elimination of D is correct with my method.
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by sam2304 » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:27 pm
A/B - Which seems to modify a drop in investment, but that doesn't cause people to cut consumer spending - change in meaning
D - 'that are' is unnecessary and 'lead back' is redundant.
E - that cause cutbacks - the that here seems to refer to 'a drop in investment'

C is right because with ING form the adverbial modifier modifies the entire preceding clause to give proper meaning.

IMO C.
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by imskpwr » Thu Sep 06, 2012 7:49 am
need an Expert's opinion here.
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by shekhar.kataria » Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:43 pm
imskpwr wrote:An economic recession can result from a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.


a lowering of employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, which causes people to cut consumer spending and start a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

1. Causes and Start Not parallel.
2. When we parallel relative clauses. I think we should repeat that relative pronoun as well even if the sentence reads starts i think i would be wrong because of the missing WHICH.



a lowering of employment rates triggered by dropping investment, which cause people to cut consumer spending and starts a cycle of layoffs leading back to even lower employment rates.

Same issue as A

falling employment rates triggered by a drop in investment, causing cutbacks in consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead to even lower employment rates.

falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, causing people to cut consumer spending and starting a cycle of layoffs that lead back to even lower employment rates.

That are :- unnneccessary worded.
Poeple and Consumer : - redundant.


falling employment rates that are triggered by a drop in investment, that cause cutbacks in consumer spending and the start of a cycle of layoffs leading to even lower employment rates.
Cause and the start , One is a verb and other is Noun. Not parallel. Unnecessarily worded.
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