SC's Question no - 691, 692

691). The aristocratic values expressed in the writings of Marguerite Yourcenar place her within the French classical tradition, as does her passionate interest in history, particularly Roman history.

(A) as does

(B) so do

(C) as do

(D) so is the case with

(E) similarly, does

692). The attorney turned down the law firm’s offer of a position because she suspected that it was meant merely to fill an affirmative action quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting.

(A) quota with no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting

(B) quota, having no commitment to minority hiring and eventually promoting

(C) quota and did not reflect a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion

(D) quota, not reflecting a commitment to minority hiring and eventual promotion

(E) quota, not one that reflected that minority hiring and eventual promotion was a commitment


Answers:

691). OA - A

B, C - incorrect - subject verb agreement - ..interest(singular)...do(plural)..

D - incorrect - wordy

E - incorrect - awkward

692). OA - C

A, B, D - incorrect - violating parallelism

E - incorrect - awkward

SC's Question number - 693, 694

693). The Audubon Society and other conservation groups, concerned over what they have perceived to be the serious threatening of the environment as posed by the policies of the government, are preparing for a major political effort.

(A) have perceived to be the serious threatening of the environment as

(B) perceived as the serious threat to the environment as

(C) perceive being the serious threat to the environment

(D) are perceiving as the serious threatening of the environment

(E) perceive as the serious threat to the environment

694). The auto industry has experienced one of its most significant trends in the last 50 years, which is the migration of motorists from passenger cars to minivans, sport utility vehicles, and pickups.

(A) The auto industry has experienced one of its most significant trends in the last 50 years, which is

(B) Of the trends the auto industry experienced in the last 50 years has been one of the most significant

(C) In the last 50 years, one of the most significant trends that the auto industry has been experiencing has been

(D) One of the most significant trends that the auto industry has experienced in the last 50 years is

(E) In the last 50 years, the auto industry experienced one of the most significant trends that it has had, that of

Answers:

693). OA - E - right idiom - perceive as

A, C - incorrect - unidiomatic

B - incorrect - redundancy -- 2nd as is not required -- threat to the environment as...

D - incorrect - serious threatening

694). OA - D

A - incorrect - antecedent for which not clear

B, E - incorrect - awkward, wordy

C - incorrect - wrong tense,wordy, awkward - ...has been experiencing has been...

SC's Question number - 695 , 696

695). The average weekly wage nearly doubled in the 1970’s, rising from $114 to $220, yet the average worker ended the decade with a decrease in what their pay may buy.

(A) with a decrease in what their pay may buy

(B) with what was a decrease in what they were able to buy

(C) having decreased that which they could buy

(D) decreasing in purchasing power

(E) with a decrease in purchasing power

696). The Baldrick Manufacturing Company has for several years followed a policy aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving the efficiency of its distribution system.

(A) aimed at decreasing operating costs and improving

(B) aimed at the decreasing of operating costs and to improve

(C) aiming at the decreasing of operating costs and improving

(D) the aim of which is the decreasing of operating costs and improving

(E) with the aim to decrease operating costs and to improve


Answers:

695). OA - E

A - incorrect - pronoun error - ..the average worker...their..

B, C - incorrect - pronoun error - ..the average worker....

D - incorrect - awkward

696). (OG 10th - Ques no 212) - OA - A
OE: The best choice, A, offers an adjective phrase unequivocally modifying policy and exhibiting grammatical parallelism (decreasing ... and improving).

B, - incorrect - gerund the decreasing is not grammatically parallel with the infinitive to improve.

C, D - incorrect - the decreasing of... costs is not parallel with improving the efficiency.

E - incorrect - infinitives to decrease and to improve, while parallel, are less idiomatic than the prepositional phrase of decreasing ... and improving in modifying the noun aim. Also, with the aim...improve can easily be construed as referring to the Baldrick Manufacturing Company and so does not refer
unequivocally to policy.

SC's Question number - 697 , 698

697). The bank acknowledged that they are and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts to deal with the precipitous fall of the dollar against the yen and the dislocations reflected in the stock market decline.

(A) they are and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts

(B) they are and will continue to experience difficulties as they attempt

(C) it is and will continue to experience difficulties as it attempts

(D) it is experiencing and will continue to experience difficulties as they make an attempt

(E) its difficulties are likely to continue as it attempts

698). The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due.

(A) they do not expect payments when

(B) it does not expect payments when it is

(C) it does not expect payments to be made when they are

(D) payments are not to be expected to be paid when

(E) payments are not expected to be paid when they will be


Answers:

697). OA - E

A, B, D - incorrect - pronoun error - ..bank(singular)....they(plural)..

C - incorrect - wordy, awkward - ... acknowledged that it is and will continue to experience...

698). OA - C

A - incorrect - pronoun error - ..bank(singular)....they(plural)

B - incorrect - pronoun error - ..payments(plural)....it(singular)..

D - incorrect - awkward - are not to be expected to be

E - incorrect - awkward, wrong tense

SC's Question number - 699 , 700

699). The black hole has entered the popular imagination as an object too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its gravitational pull.

(A) too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its

(B) too massive for either allowing light or matter to escape its

(C) massive enough that either light or matter cannot escape their

(D) so massive that neither light nor matter could escape their

(E) so massive that neither light nor matter can escape

700). The boom in agricultural exports in the early 1970’s emptied United States grain bins and many were led to thinking that overproduction was now a problem of the past.

(A) many were led to thinking that overproduction was now

(B) many had been led to thinking of overproduction as if it were

(C) the thought this led to was that overproduction had become

(D) led many to the thought of overproduction as if it were

(E) led many to think that overproduction had become


Answers:

699). OA - E - idiomatic - ..so .. ..that..

A, B - incorrect - unidiomatic - too massive that

C, D - incorrect - subject verb agreement - ... black hole(singular)..their(plural)..

700). OA - E - parallel - ....exports in the early 1970’s emptied United States...and led many to think ...

A, B, C - incorrect - violating parallelism

D - incorrect - awkward

SC's Question number - 701 , 702

701). The brain is something of a stimulus reduction system, a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount of stimuli that reach the senses at any given moment.

(A) a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount

(B) a means to reduce, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite number

(C) the means of reducing for comprehending the nearly infinite number

(D) the means that reduces, in order to comprehend, the nearly infinite amount

(E) the means for reducing in order to comprehend the nearly infinite amount

702). The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople and how they would have to act militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them

(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary

(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event

(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event

(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for dealing with it

Answers:

701). OA - B

A, D, E - incorrect - use of amount is wrong - stimulus is countable

C - incorrect - awkward

702). OA - D - The British Admiralty and the War Office met ... to consider X and Y, here X is the noun phrase a possible Russian attempt. D provides a noun phrase, military action, that matches the structure of x more closely than do the corresponding noun elements in the other choices.

A, B - incorrect - the pronoun them has no antecedent; furthermore, the clause in B must take should rather than would.

C - incorrect - awkward - necessary militarily

E - incorrect - wordy and garbles the meaning with incorrect word order.

SC's Question number - 703 , 704

703). The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.

(A) that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning

(B) that the elephant, giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, had been earning

(C) that there was an elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo, and it earned

(D) the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and was earning

(E) the elephant giving rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo and that it earned

704). The brochure notes that in the seminar the importance that communication is a two-way process will be emphasized.

(A) importance that communication is a two-way process will be emphasized

(B) importance of communication as a two-way process will be emphasized

(C) importance of communication being a two-way process will be the emphasis

(D) fact will be emphasized that communication is a two-way process and of importance

(E) emphasis will be that communication being a two-way process is important

Answers:

703). (OG 10th Ques no - 258) - OA - A -

OE:
A - correct - Choice A, the best answer, uses the idiomatic construction noted... that and clearly focuses on the salient information-- a comparison of annual earnings.
B - incorrect - the structure of noted... that the elephant, giving rides ..., had been earning falsely implies that the reader already knows about the elephant--that is, that the existence of this particular elephant is not new information. Also, the past perfect had been improperly places the elephant's
earning in the past, prior to Wootton's; consistent verb tense is needed to show that the actions are simultaneous.
C - incorrect - may be faulted for distortion of meaning and diminished clarity because it suggests that the point of Wootton's example was the elephant's very existence; comparative earnings are presented (after and) as incidental detail.
D - incorrect - is awkward and inexact; the whole circumstance that Wootton "noted" is best expressed in a clause that begins with that.
E - incorrect - does not use the idiomatic construction noted that x;
therefore, and that it earned has no parallel construction to which it can be joined.

In simple words:

B - incorrect - past perfect tense not required

C - incorrect - ambiguous it. Wordy - there was

D, E - incorrect - unidiomatic - right idiomatic usage is noted .... that

704). OA - B - idiomatic - importance of

A, D - incorrect - awkward, unidiomatic

C, E - incorrect - use of being

SC's Question number - 705 , 706

705). The cameras of the Voyager II spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling Uranus, which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting the distant planet.

(A) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting

(B) doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known to orbit

(C) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known in orbit around

(D) doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting

(E) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known that orbit

706). The capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s population on the eve of the First World War was 51,919.

(A) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s population

(B) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, whose population

(C) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, with a population

(D) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo having a population that

(E) Bosnia-Herzegovina, the population of Sarajevo


Answers:

705). (OG10th Ques no - 49) - OA - B

OE: The pronoun which should be used to refer to a previously mentioned noun, not to the idea expressed in an entire clause.

A, C, E - incorrect - which seems to refer to a vague concept involving the detection of moons, but there is no specific noun, such as detection, to which it can refer. Also in E, the use of the phrasing the number... now known that
orbit is ungrammatical and unclear. (In other words which is wrongly referring to Uranus)

B, D - incorrect - use the correct participial form, doubling, to modify the preceding clause, but D, like A, uses known as orbiting rather than known to orbit, a phrase that is more idiomatic in context.

706). OA - B - whose is correctly referring to population

A, E - incorrect - modifier error

C - incorrect - ...with...was...

D - incorrect - awkward

SC's Question number - 707 , 708

707). The caterpillar of the geometrid moth strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed, after capturing its prey, holds the victim so that it cannot escape.

(A) strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed,

(B) striking when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed, but

(C) which strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed,

(D) which, striking when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed,

(E) strikes when special tactile hairs on its body are disturbed and,

708).The Coast guard is conducting tests to see whether pigeons can be trained to help find survivors of wrecks at sea.

(A) to see whether pigeons can be trained to help find

(B) to see whether pigeons can be trained as help to find

(C) to see if pigeons can be trained for helping to find

(D) that see if pigeons are able to be trained in helping to find

(E) that see whether pigeons are able to be trained for help in finding


Answers:

707). OA - E - parallel - ....strikes...holds...

A, C - incorrect - sentence fragment

B, D - incorrect - violating parallelism.

708). (OG 10th Ques no - 236) - OA - A - idiomatically expresses the idea of purpose by using the infinitives to see and to help: the purpose of the tests is to see whether pigeons can be trained, and the purpose of training them is to
help find survivors.

B - incorrect - unidiomatic - as help to find

C - incorrect - unidiomatic - for helping to find. Whether is preferred to if when there are only two alternatives. Whether vs If

D, E - incorrect - wordy - are able to be.

D - incorrect - Whether is preferred to if when there are only two alternatives.

E - incorrect - unidiomatic - for helping in finding

SC's Question number - 709 , 710

709). The Coast Guard recently redesigned channel markers in the Chesapeake Bay to accommodate large numbers of ospreys, whose huge nests formerly obstructed the lights.

(A) numbers of ospreys, whose huge nests

(B) numbers of ospreys, their huge nests

(C) amounts of ospreys, the huge nests of which

(D) nests of ospreys they

(E) numbers of ospreys, and their huge nests


710). The colorization of black-and-white films by computers is defended by those who own the film rights, for the process can mean increased revenues for them; many others in the film industry, however, contend that the technique degrades major works of art, which they liken to putting lipstick on a Greek statue.

(A) which they liken to putting lipstick on a Greek statue

(B) which they liken to a Greek statue with lipstick put on it

(C) which they liken to lipstick put on a Greek statue

(D) likening it to a Greek statue with lipstick put on it

(E) likening it to putting lipstick on a Greek statue


Answers:

709). OA - A

B, D - incorrect - sentence fragment. Editing Comma Splice

C - incorrect - ospreys is countable thus use of amount is wrong

E - incorrect - distorts the meaning

710). (OG 1oth Ques nno - 229) - OA - E - correctly and logically compares the technique of colorization to the act of putting lipstick on a Greek statue.

A, B, and C - incorrect - wrong comparison - the relative pronoun which refers not to the technique but to the noun phrase immediately preceding it, major works of art. As a result, these works are compared to putting lipstick on ... in A, to a Greek statue in B, and to lipstick in C.

D - incorrect - illogically compares the technique to a Greek statue.

SC's Question number - 711 , 712

711). The Commerce Department announced that the economy grew during the second quarter at a 7.5 percent annual rate, while inflation eased when it might have been expected for it to rise.

(A) it might have been expected for it to rise

(B) it might have been expected to rise

(C) it might have been expected that it should rise (

D) its rise might have been expected

(E) there might have been an expectation it would rise

712).The commission acknowledged that no amount of money or staff members can ensure the safety of people who live in the vicinity of a nuclear plant, but it approved the installation because it believed that all reasonable precautions had been taken.

(A) no amount of money or staff members

(B) neither vast amounts of money nor staff members

(C) neither vast amounts of money nor numbers of staff members

(D) neither vast amounts of money nor a large staff

(E) no matter how large the staff or how vast the amount of money


Answers:

711). (OG 11th Ques no - 32) - OA - B - idiomatic - X is expected to Y is the correct idiomatic expression

A, C - incorrect - unidiomatic

D - incorrect - passive, violating parallelism - its rise is not parallel to inflation

E - incorrect - wordy

712). OA - D - parallel - neither X nor Y

A - incorrect - use of amount is wrong - cannot use amount for staff members(countable)

B, C - incorrect - violating parallelism

E - incorrect - wordy and awkward

SC's Question number - 713 , 714

713). The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word “natural” to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.

(A) or nothing that has been

(B) or that has been

(C) and nothing that is

(D) or anything that has been

(E) and anything

714). The commission proposed that funding for the park’s development, which could be open to the public early next year, is obtained through a local bond issue.

(A) that funding for the park’s development, which could be open to the public early next year, is

(B) that funding for development of the park, which could be open to the public early next year, be

(C) funding for the development of the park, perhaps open to the public early next year, to be

(D) funds for the park’s development, perhaps open to the public early next year, be

(E) development funding for the park, which could be open to the public early next year, is to be

Answers:

713). (OG 11th Ques no - 14) - OA - D - not X, Y, or Z

A, C - incorrect - double negative - ...not...nothing...

B - incorrect - that has been synthesized distorts the meaning by referring to foods, rather than to something added to a food

E - incorrect - and distorts the meaning and violates parallelism. List of prohibited ingredients must be connected by or

714). (OG 10th Ques no - 164) - OA - B

OE: Choice B is best.

A - incorrect - attaches the relative clause which could be open ... to the noun development, when, in fact, it is the park that could be open.

C - incorrect - omits that, the object of proposed that is needed to
introduce the clause describing the proposal. C also uses to be unidiomatically where be is correct: the commission proposed [that] funding ... to be obtained is wrong.

D - incorrect - incorrectly uses perhaps open to the public ... to modify development; the phrase should modify park.

E - incorrect - distorts meaning, says that the commission proposed development funding and that such funding could be open to the public ....

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.

SC's Question number - 717 , 718

717). The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.

(A) subsidiary, which it plans to use money from

(B) subsidiary, from which it plans to use money

(C) subsidiary, and it plans the use of money from that

(D) subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale

(E) subsidiary and plans the use of money from that sale

718). The complex tax dispute between the Covered Bridge Mall and Harris
Township is not likely to be adjudicated for several years, and, in the meantime, both sides are intent on creating difficulties for the other.

(A) both sides are intent on creating difficulties for the other

(B) both sides are intent on creating difficulties for each other

(C) each side is intent on creating difficulties for the other

(D) each side is intent on creating difficulties for one another

(E) the sides are both intent on creating difficulties for each other


Answers:

717). OA - D

A, B, C - incorrect - incorrectly says that the money obtained is from credit card subsidiary instead of saying that the money obtained is from the sale of credit card subsidiary

E - incorrect - wordy and awkward

718). OA - C

A, B, E - incorrect - the difference between each/the other and both/each other - use each when the parties are more separate, and use both when the parties are collaborating.(courtesy Erin)

D - incorrect - Use one another for reference to more than two (http://www.bartelby.com/68/1/2101.html)

SC's Question number - 719 , 720

719). The computer software being designed for a project studying Native American access to higher education will not only meet the needs of that study, but also has the versatility and power of facilitating similar research endeavors.

(A) but also has the versatility and power of facilitating

(B) but also have the versatility and power to facilitate

(C) but it also has the versatility and power to facilitate

(D) and also have the versatility and power of facilitating

(E) and it also has such versatility and power that it can facilitate


720). The concept of the grand jury dates from the twelfth century, when Henry II of England ordered panels of common citizens should prepare lists of who were their communities’ suspected criminals.

(A) should prepare lists of who were their communities’ suspected criminals

(B) would do the preparation of lists of their communities’ suspected criminals

(C) preparing lists of suspected criminals in their communities

(D) the preparing of a list of suspected criminals in their communities

(E) to prepare lists of suspected criminals in their communities


Answers:

719). OA - B -....will not only meet the needs of that study, but also have the versatility and power to facilitate...

A - incorrect - unidiomatic power of . Further singular verb has is wrong. (Rule: should/would/could/should/will/can/may/might/ought never take singular verbs)

C, D, E - incorrect - violating parallelism - right form ...not only X but also Y....

720). OA - E - Explanation on link below
Question no 39

SC's Question number - 721 , 722

721). The current administration, being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness.

(A) being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing

(B) worrying over some foreign trade barriers being removed, also over the failure of our exports

(C) worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports

(D) in that they were worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and also about the failure of our exports

(E) because of its worry concerning the removal of some foreign trade barriers, also concerning the failure of our exports

722). The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a hurricane are useful mainly for gauging the storm’s structure and strength, not for the speed and the path of their movement.

(A) not for the speed and the path of their movement

(B) not for the speed and path of its movement

(C) not the speed and path of its movement

(D) and not the speed and path of their movements

(E) and not for the speed and the path of its movements


Answers:

721). OA - C - idiomatic and parallel - worried about X and Y

A - incorrect - passive and unidiomatic

B - incorrect - unidiomatic

D - incorrect - pronoun error - The current administration(singular).....in that they(plural)

E - incorrect - wordy

722). OA - C - parallel and idiomatic - gauging the (X and Y) not the (P and Q)

A, D - incorrect - pronoun error - ...storm's structure(singular)....their(plural)...

B - incorrect - unidiomatic - right idiom is for X, not Y

E - incorrect - use of and

SC's Question number - 723 , 724

723). The debate over bilingual education centers on the issue of whether the United States should foster the idea of single common language, an idea, some believe, that has in the past been crucial in binding diverse constituencies together.

(A) been crucial in binding diverse constituencies together

(B) been crucial as a binding together of diverse constituencies

(C) been crucial to bind together constituencies that are diverse

(D) become crucial in binding together diverse constituencies

(E) become crucial to bind together constituencies that are diverse


724). The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multi government lenders to supply the funds.

(A) increasing the pressure

(B) the increasing pressure

(C) increased pressure

(D) the pressure increased

(E) the pressure increasing


Answers:

723). OA - A - right idiom crucial in

B, C, E - incorrect - unidiomatic

D - incorrect - has been is better than has become - wrongly suggests that it still becoming crucial today

724). OA - C - parallelism - ...less lending(noun) by commercial banks to developing countries increased pressure(noun)...

A, B, D, E - incorrect - violating parallelism

SC's Question number - 725 , 726

725). The decisions of John Marshall, the fourth chief justice, have had a greater influence than any chief justice in history.

(A) than any chief justice in history

(B) historically than any other chief justice

(C) than have those of any chief justice in history

(D) in history as any other chief justice has had

(E) than those of any other chief justice in history

726).The delinquency rates on mortgages for office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, and other commercial properties held by the nation’s insurance companies in recent months have increased sharply, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loan could double over the next three years.

(A) in recent months have increased sharply, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loan could double over the next three years

(B) have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that foreclosures on these types of loans could double over the next three years

(C) have increased sharply in recent months, leading to predictions that doubling of foreclosures on these types of loans could occur over the next three years

(D) has increased sharply in recent months, and lead to predictions that over the next three years doubling of foreclosures on this type of loan could occur

(E) in recent months has increased sharply, and this leads to predictions that foreclosures on that type of loan in the next three years could double


Answers:

725). OA - E - The decisions of....than those of...

A, B, C, D - incorrect - wrong comparison

726). OA - B

A - incorrect - modifier error

C - incorrect - wordy

D, E - incorrect - subject verb agreement - .....rates(plural).....has(singular)....