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by aj5105 » Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:52 am
Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers provide workers with unpaid leave so as to care for
sick or newbom children.
(A) provide workers with unpaid leave so as to
(B) to provide workers with unpaid leave so as to
(C) provide workers with unpaid leave in order that they
(D) to provide workers with unpaid leave so that they can
(E) provide workers with unpaid leave and
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by sethids » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:10 am
If we use so as to in this case, it would mean that the employers are taking care of the sick and newborn children. The construction of the sentence would also be awkward then.

I believe D is the best choice here but it has a pronoun "they", which could refer either to the employers or the workers.

Even with that little confusion I would go with D.
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by aj5105 » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:27 am
OA - D.

I'm not fully convinced yet about the answer.
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by sethids » Sat Sep 13, 2008 2:42 am
Even I am not 100% convinced with D. But, when all answer choices look bad then we need to pick the one which appears to be "not as bad".
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by eccentric » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:19 pm
So am I,
the pronoun reference error is so profound here that i preferred to choose B, however later realized to my dismay i have just got wrong here...
The so as to is certainly unidiomatic and only D serves better :))))

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