SC's Question number - 797 , 798

797). The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing

(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing

(D) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns

798). The original employees hired, who had been there over twenty years, were fiercely loyal to the firm and it offered no retirement benefits or profit sharing to any employees.

(A) and it offered no

(B) and it offered neither

(C) still it offered no

(D) though it offered no

(E) though it offered neither


Answers:

797). (OG 1Oth Ques No - 71) - OA - C

OE: The sentence speaks of a sequence of actions in the past:
shareholders made their monthly payments and subsequently took turns drawing on the funds. Choice C, the best answer, uses parallel past-tense verb forms to express this sequence.

A, B - incorrect - violate parallelism by using taking where took is required.

D - incorrect - run-on sentence and does not specify what the members
took turns doing.

E - incorrect - does not specify what the members drew, and taking turns produces nonsense when combined with the rest of the sentence

798). OA - D

A, B - incorrect - run on sentence - Comma Splice

C - incorrect - use of still is wrong

B, E - incorrect - neither is followed by nor ...so neither...or is wrong