Need to find errors in the following sentence:
By adding a value menu and allowing customers to choose side orders such as salads and baked potatoes, Wendy’s has not only lured customers away from Burger King and McDonald’s, but has enticed them to choose fast-food over meals prepared by finer dining establishments.
Source: Some coaching institute in Bengaluru, India
OA: [spoiler]By adding a value menu and allowing customers to choose side orders such as salads and baked potatoes, Wendy’s has not only lured customers away from Burger King and McDonald’s, but has enticed the customers to choose fast-food over meals prepared by finer dining establishments. [/spoiler]
Questions:
(1) Is Wendy's correct? Shouldn't it be "the Wendy"? Don't we need articles "the" before Burger King and McDonald?
(2) Should it be McDonald's or McDonald?
(3) How about idiom Not Only X but ALSO Y? OA does not contain ALSO. Is it implied?
(4) Is "the customers" needed? Them only had only one plural noun to refer before and that was "customers" . In this case it is really not essential to replace "them" with "the customers". Correct?
(5) In the last clause, the customers who are enticed can be the same as those in second clause or they can be different. Sentence does not provide any clue why they should or should note be the same. What is the SC strategy in such problems?
(6) Fast-Food over meals: Is an article required before fast-food? Should it be fast-food over meal?
My answer would be:
By adding a value menu and allowing customers to choose side orders such as salads and baked potatoes, THE WENDY has not only lured THE customers away from THE BURGER KING and THE MCDONALD, but has ALSO enticed THEM to choose A fast-food over A MEAL prepared by finer dining establishments.
By adding a value menu and allowing customers to choose side orders such as salads and baked potatoes, Wendy’s has not only lured customers away from Burger King and McDonald’s, but has enticed them to choose fast-food over meals prepared by finer dining establishments.
Source: Some coaching institute in Bengaluru, India
OA: [spoiler]By adding a value menu and allowing customers to choose side orders such as salads and baked potatoes, Wendy’s has not only lured customers away from Burger King and McDonald’s, but has enticed the customers to choose fast-food over meals prepared by finer dining establishments. [/spoiler]
Questions:
(1) Is Wendy's correct? Shouldn't it be "the Wendy"? Don't we need articles "the" before Burger King and McDonald?
(2) Should it be McDonald's or McDonald?
(3) How about idiom Not Only X but ALSO Y? OA does not contain ALSO. Is it implied?
(4) Is "the customers" needed? Them only had only one plural noun to refer before and that was "customers" . In this case it is really not essential to replace "them" with "the customers". Correct?
(5) In the last clause, the customers who are enticed can be the same as those in second clause or they can be different. Sentence does not provide any clue why they should or should note be the same. What is the SC strategy in such problems?
(6) Fast-Food over meals: Is an article required before fast-food? Should it be fast-food over meal?
My answer would be:
By adding a value menu and allowing customers to choose side orders such as salads and baked potatoes, THE WENDY has not only lured THE customers away from THE BURGER KING and THE MCDONALD, but has ALSO enticed THEM to choose A fast-food over A MEAL prepared by finer dining establishments.
