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The chairman of the board

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by GmatKiss » Sat Oct 15, 2011 2:39 pm
The chairman of the board, who was very sorry to learn that he’d acted on incorrect information, should not be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though many have suggested he should.

A. should not be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though

B. should not be in a position of responsibility for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

C. should not be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

D. was not to be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though

E. was not to be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

OA: C
Last edited by GmatKiss on Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:58 am, edited 1 time in total.
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by cyrwr1 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 6:58 pm
I'm going to say C as A and D are both wrong with the semicolon. It should be a comma

The gist of the sentence IMO is: The chairman of the board,....., should not be responsible, though many have ....... he should.
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by avik.ch » Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:30 pm
IMO : E
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by cyrwr1 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:35 pm
Just to add:

Responsible to Verb
Responsible for Noun
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by parul9 » Sat Oct 15, 2011 7:46 pm
IMO C
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by CaptainHaddock » Sat Oct 15, 2011 9:08 pm
IMO, C
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by sungoal » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:00 pm
OA should be C.

Option A is a sentence fragment, as after the semicolon, we have dependent clause in the sentence. A dependent clause can not stand on its own. It should always be followed by an independent clause.

Option D is wrong for the same reason as mentioned above.

"Should not be in a position of" is awkward and wordy in option B. So wrong.

Option E is wrong because "responsible to" is unidiomatic.
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by prodizy » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:37 pm
hey gmatkiss,


d is wrong because of the wrong tense.
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by garima99 » Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:02 am
GmatKiss wrote:The chairman of the board, who was very sorry to learn that he’d acted on incorrect information, should not be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though many have suggested he should.

A. should not be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though

B. should not be in a position of responsibility for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

C. should not be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

D. was not to be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though

E. was not to be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

IMO: D
+1 for C
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by saketk » Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:47 am
GmatKiss wrote:The chairman of the board, who was very sorry to learn that he’d acted on incorrect information, should not be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though many have suggested he should.

A. should not be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though

B. should not be in a position of responsibility for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

C. should not be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

D. was not to be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices; though

E. was not to be held responsible to decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though

IMO: D
IMO the correct answer: option C

We need responsible for and not responsible to -- eliminate A and E

B is awkward and wordy

D cannot be the answer because we need present tense and not Past Tense.

The sentence should look like this...

The chairman of the board, who was very sorry to learn that he’d acted on incorrect information,should not be held responsible for decreasing revenues or falling stock prices, though...
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by mankey » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:13 am
Very clearly, C. Could you please provide OA.

Thanks.
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by garima99 » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:20 am
C is correct
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by GmatKiss » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:57 am
Sorry for the confusion folks, it is indeed C
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