Sentence Correction

nil4700 wrote:Hello all,

I've a small doubt in this question. If you compare options A and C, there is big difference in the menaing. Option A says that, Alaska is saving money to sustain the economy and it chose the particular fund for that. Option C says that the FUND itself sustains the economy of the state. So option C seems to be deviating from the actual sentence. If i'm wrong please correct me.

One possible error in A could be using ITS OIL RESERVES, where ITS doesn't clearly specify whose oil reserves they were. Please give me some explanation on this.

Thanks,
Nil.

I think exactly as you did. I read somewhere in this forum about this problem and I get the following idea

It is clear that meanings in A and C are different.But gmat requires a grammatical choice before a choice which keeps original meaning. so we choose C.

In other words, the order of checking is that 1.grammar,2.meaning, 3.style. (seldom we have to check style.This is very hard)

when we face both grammatical choices, we choose the choice which keeps origial meaning

This means that if you do not follow the above order, if you check meaning before grammar, you die. You are checking meaning first and so not successful

this order of checking is really simple but fatally important.

Anybody has some idea, pls, discuss.

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state's economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.

(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state's economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves
// Its has no referent

(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state's economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
// they has no antecedent

(C) fund intended to sustain the state's economy after oil reserves are exhausted
Correct

(D) fund intended to sustain the state's economy after exhausting its oil reserves
// Same error as stated in (a)

(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state's economy after oil reserves are exhausted
// they has no antecedent

Doesn't it sounds more logical for D uses the passive ?

i'm also a little confused about the "after exhausting its oil reserve" in D.... why and how is it wrong? how can we decide the subject of the verb "exhaust"? it should be "Alaska" or "fund"?

a) fund, with the intention to sustain the state's economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves

b) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state's economy after they
have exhausted their oil reserves
"They is a plural pronoun, but we don't have a plural noun in this sentence

c) fund intended to sustain the state's economy after oil reserves are exhausted

d) fund intended to sustain the state's economy after exhausting its oil reserves
The tense of the verbs "intended" and "exhausting" are not parallel"

e) fund that they intend to sustain the state's economy after oil reserves are exhausted
"They" is a plural pronoun, but we don't have a plural noun in this sentence

From here I picked "C" because "A" was just too wordy and seemed awkward.

(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state's economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves

its is ambiguous, it can refer to fund or Alaska. The preferred idiom is "with the intention of ..."

(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state's economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves

they and their do not agree in number with Alaska.

(C) fund intended to sustain the state's economy after oil reserves are exhausted
Correct.

(D) fund intended to sustain the state's economy after exhausting its oil reserves

its is ambiguous as in A

(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state's economy after oil reserves are exhausted
they has no reference.