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The Engineering Department, one of the newest departments in the University, has more extensive facilities than every department, due to their graduates’ demand for industry and their correspondingly higher salaries.

(A) every department, due to their graduates’ demand for industry and their correspondingly higher
(B) every other department, because of its graduates’ demand in industry and their correspondingly higher
(C) every department, because of its graduates’ demand for industry and their higher corresponding
(D) every other department, due to their graduates’ demand in industry and their higher corresponding
(E) every other department, because of their graduates’ demand for industry and their higher corresponding


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Re: The Engineering Department, one of the newest departments in the University, has more extensive facilities than ever

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This sentence compares the Engineering department with every other department because they are highly sought after and also because of their higher salaries.

Option A- INCORRECT
This option is wrong because, it uses the wrong modifier to modify the action in the first clause.

Option B- CORRECT
This option uses the correct verb modifier 'because of', it correctly states the untended meaning of the sentence.

Option C- INCORRECT
This option is wrong because, it seems like the sentence the graduates of Engineering department are the ones soughting for industries to employ them.

Option D- INCORRECT
To compare correctly in the sentence, we need a verb modifier 'because of', but the option uses a noun modifier 'due to'

Option E- INCORRECT
It uses the incorrect pronoun 'their', The noun 'engineering department' in the sentence is a singular noun so it needs a singular pronoun 'it'
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