Sentence Correction

Please help on this one:

A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market.
A. reserves and this raised fears of other countries that
B. reserves, which, as a result, raised fears of other countries that
C. reserves; as a result, they feared that other countries would
D. reserves, with fears raised that other countries would
E. reserves, raising fears that other countries would

Thanks.

IMO:E

IMO too E. But I am not able to find a strong reason to eliminate D.

Some expert please help.

Thanks.

Good question, mankey - I'd eliminate D on the basis that "with fears raised" leaves it pretty unclear as to whose fears are raised.

Is it "The Swiss government"? That's kind of illogical...why would they make this move with its own fears that it could cause a bigger problem. If that were the intent of the sentence you'd have to use a transition like "despite fears" to show that the government had fears, but still decided to make that decision.

Is it "the country"? If so, that makes it part of the recommendation ("you should sell half your gold with fear!") and that's not really logical either.

So I'd say it's a two-part reason: one, there really isn't a clear subject of "with fears raised" and two, there isn't a logical subject for it either. The modifier "raising fears" in E assigns "raising fears" to the action, and that makes a lot of sense. The Swiss made this decision, and the decision raised fears around the world that this could lead to a major problem.

Thanks Brian. It was only meaningwise that I was able to eliminate D. But my question is more of fundamental, as in, if you could explain me what is really is being modified by "with"? What is "with" attaching itself to?

Regards
Mankey

mankey wrote:Please help on this one:

A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half its gold reserves and this raised fears of other countries that do the same and inundate the market.
A. reserves and this raised fears of other countries that
B. reserves, which, as a result, raised fears of other countries that
C. reserves; as a result, they feared that other countries would
D. reserves, with fears raised that other countries would
E. reserves, raising fears that other countries would

Thanks.

IMO E
whts OA?

IMO C

Provide us please with the OA!

I dont have OA for this one. I took this question from one of the forums, where the OA was not provided.

If someone could help with the help, it will of great help to everyone.

Thanks.

OA is E. Source is GMATPrep Exam Pack 1.

Brian@VeritasPrep wrote:Good question, mankey - I'd eliminate D on the basis that "with fears raised" leaves it pretty unclear as to whose fears are raised.

Is it "The Swiss government"? That's kind of illogical...why would they make this move with its own fears that it could cause a bigger problem. If that were the intent of the sentence you'd have to use a transition like "despite fears" to show that the government had fears, but still decided to make that decision.

Is it "the country"? If so, that makes it part of the recommendation ("you should sell half your gold with fear!") and that's not really logical either.

So I'd say it's a two-part reason: one, there really isn't a clear subject of "with fears raised" and two, there isn't a logical subject for it either. The modifier "raising fears" in E assigns "raising fears" to the action, and that makes a lot of sense. The Swiss made this decision, and the decision raised fears around the world that this could lead to a major problem.

Brian@VeritasPrep

Great explanation as always.

Can you please help me in understanding what's wrong with option A apart from the usage of 'this', which has no clear antecedent.

Thanking in anticipation.

Regards