SC's Question number - 715 , 716

715). The commission’s office of compliance, inspections, and investigations plans to intensify its scrutiny of stock analysts to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are paid for their work by a firm’s investment.

(A) to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when they are

(B) to investigate not only whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or they are

(C) to not only investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also if conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or are

(D) not only to investigate whether or not research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or are

(E) not only to investigate whether research is an independent function at brokerage firms, but also whether conflicts result when analysts own the stocks they write about or when


716). The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.

(A) had expected it to and its business will improve

(B) had expected and that its business would improve

(C) expected it would and that it will improve its business

(D) expected them to and its business would improve

(E) expected and that it will have improved its business


Answers:


715). OA - A

B, C, D, E - incorrect - violating parallelism - not only X but also Y - X, Y should be parallel

C, D - incorrect - redundant - ...whether or not...

E - incorrect - awkward ending

716). (OG 10th Ques no - 250) - OA - B

OE: B, the best choice, avoids errors of agreement, correctly uses the parallel construction that x and that y, and uses would rather than will to refer to a promised but uncertain future event.

A, C - incorrect - singular it after expected has no grammatical referent: its antecedent cannot be The company, but rather must be the plural
profits. A and C also contain errors of verb form, using will where would is required.
A, D - incorrect - fail to maintain parallel structure: properly formed, the construction would have that after expected to parallel that after announced. Furthermore, in D, the addition of them to is unnecessary.

E - incorrect - illogically uses the future perfect will have improved to suggest completion of an action that will be continuous in the second half of the year.