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by mandeepak » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:05 am
Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

A. Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
B. An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.
C. An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.
D. Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.
E. Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked well in the past, is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
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by sonibubu » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:41 pm
I'm not totally sure, but B and E look best to me. I can't decide which...
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by ranji » Tue Nov 13, 2007 7:40 pm
B seems to be wrong for 2 reasons -

especially one - one can refer to course of action or executive
misinterpreting ones - ones is ambigious here

I think E is correct. ['likely to' is correct, miss and misinterpret parallel]

ans E

whats OA?
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by yxhh2008 » Tue Nov 13, 2007 8:53 pm
my ans is C, what is OA?
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by IndianJaguar » Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:15 am
I like C also, but "it" is consfusing. Does "it" refers to trouble or action, its really far from action. But everything else looks wrong.
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by ranji » Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:56 pm
OA pls..
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by Danielle » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:39 pm
The answer is E.

A -- Terrible! What is 'heavy commitment'? what is 'it' referring to? Wrong.

B -- The first part of the sentence reads well, but the last part of the sentence is out of order. Wrong.

C -- A big ambiguous 'it' appears again at the end of the sentence. What is it referring to? Nothing really. It's wrong.

D -- misinterpreting is in gerund form, this is incorrect. Also 'executives' being heavily committed is the opposite of concise. You could just say, executives' commitment, or better yet, committed executives. Wrong.

E is correct. In proper order, no agreement problems, no awkward constructions, and no pronouns without a reference.
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by yxhh2008 » Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:11 pm
I am still confusing about the useage of "one" in E.
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by Danielle » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:28 pm
one is a pronoun referring to a particular course of action, as first mentioned in the sentence.
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