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by magical cook » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:39 pm
Hi,

I thought the answer is A) but the correct one is D) - can you explain why A) is wrong?? :cry:


Congress is debating a bill requiring certain employers provide workers with unpaid leave so as to care for sick or newborn 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 aim-wsc » Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:15 pm
magical cook wrote:Hi,

I thought the answer is A) but the correct one is D) - can you explain why A) is wrong?? :cry:
so as to care is wrong construction so eliminate A & B

E) leave and....changes the meaning : discard

C) in order that they is again cant go with care

Another way to go is

require smthing to is correct idiom
so discard A C E forthwith 8)
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by magical cook » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:45 am
Thanks John.

I heard "in order that" is almost always wrong in SC but "so as to" is also prefer not to use???
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by aim-wsc » Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:39 pm
''so as to'' is correct but in right context.
for this problem i think It's not appropriate to place it before ''care''.
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by Cybermusings » Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:05 am
The use of the word "to" is critical in the sentence, which otherwise seems incomplete; hence eliminate A,C and E. In Choice B, we do not understand clearly who is doer of the action (i.e. caring for sick or newborn children"). Hence D
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by bhumika.k.shah » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:02 am
I agree.

Hence i'd go with D
Cybermusings wrote:The use of the word "to" is critical in the sentence, which otherwise seems incomplete; hence eliminate A,C and E. In Choice B, we do not understand clearly who is doer of the action (i.e. caring for sick or newborn children"). Hence D
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by hrishi19884 » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:09 am
bhumika.k.shah wrote:I agree.

Hence i'd go with D
Cybermusings wrote:The use of the word "to" is critical in the sentence, which otherwise seems incomplete; hence eliminate A,C and E. In Choice B, we do not understand clearly who is doer of the action (i.e. caring for sick or newborn children"). Hence D
haah ...you opened a 2007 post! :wink:
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