Question
Many states, in search of industries that are clean, fast-growing, and pay good wages to skilled workers, are trying to attract high-technology industries.
Option A
Option B
Option C
Option D
Option E
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Solution
- Many states, (Main Subject)
- in search of industries (Prepositional Phrase – modifies “are trying”)
- that are clean, fast-growing, and pay good wages (Dependent clause – modifies “industries”)
- to skilled workers, (Prepositional Phrase – modifies “good wages”)
- that are clean, fast-growing, and pay good wages (Dependent clause – modifies “industries”)
- in search of industries (Prepositional Phrase – modifies “are trying”)
- are trying to attract high-technology industries. (“are trying”: Main Verb)
Many states are in search of industries that have three qualities:
- Clean
- Fast-growing
- Good paymaster
In such a search, these states are trying to attract high tech industries.
There is one error in the sentence: verb “pay” is not parallel to the adjective “clean” and “fast-growing”.
Option Analysis
(A) Incorrect. For the reason mentioned above.
(B) Incorrect. The clause “that pay” is not parallel to the verbs “are” and “grow”.
(C) Correct. The sentence now consists of two lists.
- The first list consists of two adjectives: clean and fast-growing
- The second list consists of two “that” clauses – “that are clean…” and “that pay…”
Both the lists have parallel elements and thus are correct.
(D) Incorrect. Acomma+verb-ing modifier modifies the preceding clause. And in this case the comma+verb-ing “, paying” doesn’t provide additional info about the preceding clause.
(E) Incorrect. The adjectives “ clean” and “fast-growing” are not parallel to the verb “paying” (“paying” is a verb here since it attaches with “are”, which is common to all the three elements).
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This solution was created by Chiranjeev Singh and Anish Passi.
