SC's Question number - 961, 962

961). Consumer confidence levels, which many economists consider an early indication of the economy's direction, sagged as the stock market tumbled, but not dramatically enough for giving a clear picture of new spending patterns.
(A) tumbled, but not dramatically enough for giving

(B) tumbled, but not dramatically enough to give

(C) tumbled, and not so dramatically as to have given

(D) has tumbled, and not dramatically enough to give

(E) has tumbled, but not so dramatically as to give

962). Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it

(B) to be a gradual undermining of it

(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity

(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity

(E) gradually undermining it


Answers --

961). OA - B

A - incorrect - unidiomatic - for giving

C, D - incorrect - use of and wrong , we need but to show contrast.

D, E - incorrect - use of present perfect tense is wrong here - We need simple past tense here

962). OA - A -- Predicted (future event here is predicted in the past) -- We require would in this sentence - would is the past tense of will.
"it" refers to ethnicity here.In this particular case the relative pronoun is inversed.

B, D, E - incorrect - use of will incorrect.

C - incorrect - wordy. Also a pronoun should precede the noun ethinicity.