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by akahuja143 » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:00 pm
Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.

A . Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
B . Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
C. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider
them vital economic development tools
D. Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
E. Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider
the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

OA is D but i think Supporters consider tax breaks does not make sense to me . it is not clear what supporters are supporting. supporters of tax breaks is clear and we can also say tax breaks supporters .can anyone explain.

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by thephoenix » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:31 pm
here we need supporters consider .......in order to make it parallel with critics denounce
supports do one thing .....where as critics does another thing
only B and D does so , but in B to be vital is wrong

however my doubt is how we can ensure to what them is referring
whats the source of the s/c
IMO tax breaks and businesses are two nouns preceding them
why there is no ambiguity with the antecedent of them
is it correctly constructed

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by this_time_i_will » Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:26 pm
I also have doubt on OA. i guess OA lacks main verb. Since clause set off by that is a relative clause, there is no main verb for the subject supporters

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by akahuja143 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 6:39 am
Source is MGMAT.. There is reason for them to be right,I will post that later

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by harshavardhanc » Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:03 am
thephoenix wrote:here we need supporters consider .......in order to make it parallel with critics denounce
supports do one thing .....where as critics does another thing
only B and D does so , but in B to be vital is wrong

however my doubt is how we can ensure to what them is referring
whats the source of the s/c
IMO tax breaks and businesses are two nouns preceding them
why there is no ambiguity with the antecedent of them
is it correctly constructed
Precisely! IMO D is correct because of the same reasons mentioned by you . Supporters consider......critics denounce.

As far as them is concerned, yes it was an alert when I first saw it. But, all the options have it and you cannot correct and change the structure completely by removing it.

Now, many of us would think that them can refer to one of businesses, local govts or supporters. But, the only reason to accept this pronoun here would the logical implication. The only noun out of the three which can be prevented from moving is businesses. Hence, it's antecedent would be businesses.

I hope I'm correct on this one.
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by aspirant2010 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:06 am
I am on D.....Kindly let me know the correct answer also

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by akahuja143 » Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:13 pm
Kindly let me know the correct answer also


Correct answer is already posted, highlight the spoiler.. text in black

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