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by limestone » Tue Oct 05, 2010 1:51 am
Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

A.
B. Added to increase in hourly wages which had been requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

C. The railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits added to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July.

D. In addition to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July, the railroad employees retirement benefits.

E. In addition to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

OA is E. I chose C and cannot find anything wrong with it.
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by shovan85 » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:01 am
Got confused between C and E and picked the wrong one

Now if I see clearly C is implying the wrong meaning.... It implies that employees are demanding retirement benefits to be added to increase in wages which is illogical. Obviously they want increase in wage and in addition to that they want retirement benefits.

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by limestone » Tue Oct 05, 2010 2:06 am
Yup, I get it now. Thanks buddy.
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by Tani » Tue Oct 05, 2010 11:04 am
C is wrong because it should be "the increase in hourly wages that WAS requested". The subject is "increase" - singular, not "wages" - plural.
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by GaneshMalkar » Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:00 pm
Why option D is wrong? Is "that were requested" is wordy against "requested"? I havent got on what basis we can eliminate option D. Please clarify... Thanks in Advance
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by patanjali.purpose » Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:29 am
limestone wrote:Added to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

A.
B. Added to increase in hourly wages which had been requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

C. The railroad employees are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits added to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July.

D. In addition to the increase in hourly wages that were requested last July, the railroad employees retirement benefits.

E. In addition to the increase in hourly wages requested last July, the employees of the railroad are now seeking an expanded program of retirement benefits.

OA is E. I chose C and cannot find anything wrong with it.
C - suggests WAGES WERE REQUESTED LAST YEAR, but the increase is to say INCREASE IN WAGE WAS REQUESTED; 2nd prob - BENEFITS were NOT added to INCREASE IN WAGE rather the opposite

D - fragment (there is no main clause)

E - by bringing the prep ph (IN ADDITION...JULY) the sequence of event is clear; IMO
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by Krabhay » Tue Dec 18, 2018 9:30 pm
a. The sentence is in present continuous tense. So, 'Added to' doesn't go well with the sentence.
b. Same error as 'a'.
c. 'Added to' should be changed with 'in addition to' and 'were' should be changed with 'was' as 'increase' here is used as singular.
d. 'was' should be used instead of 'were' as explained in option 'c'.
e. Grammatically correct.
Hence, e is the answer.
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