CAT Question:
Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools while critics denounce the tax breaks as corporate welfare that helps some localities but weakens the national economy.
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award to businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
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Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving to be vital economic development tools
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider them vital economic development tools
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Supporters consider tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving vital economic development tools
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Supporters of tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving consider the tax breaks to be vital economic development tools

My Question: The answer choice is D, and that is what I guessed by ruling out all others. However, it seems like a fragment, or that it says ...prevent them from moving vital economic business development tools. I meant the vital economic tools are not moving :)

the best idiom in this situation is

consider x y

and thats what is used in correct answer

It isn't a fragment, but I agree that it is seriously awkwardly constructed. It could be read in a different way than it is intended to read.

But it is the best of what we've got, so we're stuck with it. :)

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Stacey Koprince
Instructor
Director of Online Community
ManhattanGMAT

in option D

could you please let us know using:

consider x y


what exactly is X and what is Y ??

Thanks

x = tax breaks that local governments award businesses each year to prevent them from moving

y = vital economic development tools

but... yeah, this correct answer is too horribly awkward / difficult to read. we're going to change this problem, somehow, pretty soon.