Umang,
The sentence as written is correct as per Knewton and GMAT.
Verbs in the same sentence do not all need to be in the same tense, but we do need the future tense ("will try") here. We definitely need the future tense for "system will try" because we're talking about a system that the manager "will announce" in the future. However, we don't need the future tense for "who sells" because the future tense is already implied by the verb "will raise." We're describing the employee from the point of view of the future already, so we just need the present to indicate that (in the present of the future) she'll reward the employee who sells the most merchandise. If we said "she will raise the salary of the employee who will sell the most merchandise," it actually sounds like she "will raise" the salary of the employee who, even further in the future, "will sell" the most merchandise (as though she's raising the salary based on potential future sales). So the present tense is correct here.
The explanation is given below:
This sentence contains a modification error.
Which modifies the expression immediately before it, month. It is not the month that is the component, and the correct answer will eliminate this error.
Choices B and C display verb tense errors; the manager will raise, and thus the system will try.
Choice D displays an idiomatic error; a system to try is not a valid expression.
The correct answer is E; the modification error is fixed, and there are no verb tense or idiomatic errors.
UmangMathur wrote:karthikpandian19 wrote:At the next meeting, the manager will announce that she will raise the salary of the employee who sells the most merchandise next month, which is a component of a system that will try to incentivize the sales department to work as hard as the advertising department does.
(A) month, which is a component of a system that will try
(B) month, a component of a system that tries
(C) month, a component of a system trying
(D) month as a component of a system to try
(E) month as a component of a system that will try
Dear Karthik,
The question sentence seems wrong, it should be, "At the next meeting, the manager will announce that she will raise the salary of the employee
who will sell the most merchandise next..."
Regards,
Karthik
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