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by yangliu0401 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:06 pm
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
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(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
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
OA is C, but why not A or D?
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by x2suresh » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:15 pm
yangliu0401 wrote: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
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(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
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
OA is C, but why not A or D?
In A, it looks like "with intention " modifies fund (illogical)





between C and D

In C and D

Alsask <is doing X> intended to sustain economy.

D --> its refer to what??? Alaska or Fund


C is the best
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by yangliu0401 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 12:22 pm
x2suresh wrote:
yangliu0401 wrote: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
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(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
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
OA is C, but why not A or D?
In A, it looks like "with intention " modifies fund (illogical)





between C and D

In C and D

Alsask <is doing X> intended to sustain economy.

D --> its refer to what??? Alaska or Fund


C is the best
In D, for "oil reserves" is followed by "its", and fund could not have the oil reserves, its must means "Alaska"
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by awesomeusername » Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:55 pm
(A) and (D) --> "its" refers to "economy". It should refer to Alaska.
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