why is option E rejected?
With the patience of its customers and with its network strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives trying to relieve the congestion that has led to at least four class-action lawsuits and thousands of complaints from frustrated customers.
A. the patience of its customers and with its network strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives trying to relieve
B. the patience of its customers and its network strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives that try to relieve
C. its network and the patience of its customers strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives to try to relieve
D. its network and with the patience of its customers strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of initiatives to try relieving
E. its network and its customers’ patience strained to the breaking point, the on-line service company announced a series of new initiatives to try relieving
OA :C
Source : OG 18
question : why is option E rejected?
Option E says “the online-service company announced initiatives to try relieving the congestion”
The sentence seems to imply that “relieving” happens at the same time as the action “the company announced”. However, “relieving” is an intended action. The company intends to relieve congestion by announcing something.
Hence, we should use not a (VERB + ing) but an infinitive (to + VERB)
The correct usage is “the company announced initiatives to relieve”
Hope this helps 🙂
Any other reason for eliminating the options D and E. It seems parallelism is fine with all the answer options.
