Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are almost certain to leave interest rates unchanged for the foreseeable future.

A. Reserve, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are
B. Reserve, now viewing the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation and are
C. Reserve who, now viewing the economy as balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, are
D. Reserve, who now view the economy to be balanced between that of moderate growth and low inflation, will be
E. Reserve, which now views the economy to be balanced between moderate growth and low inflation, is

Problem between A and C !

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Ben Ku
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prep new sc2 Q200

I would go for the A.
In C it seems odd to put in the who and use the gerund just behind.

"prep new sc2 Q200"

I've never heard of this. Is this the name of a specific book? What company published the book?

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Stacey Koprince
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Gmat prep practice test 2, question 14.

can sumbdy pls explain what's wrong in opt D

"view X to be Y" is not idiomatic.

the relative pronoun "that (of)" doesn't refer to anything.
(for this to make sense, it would have to be "the NOUN of moderate growth", where the NOUN would come from earlier in the sentence.)

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C.F. Forbes

fair enough.

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Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity [that] religion is powerless to bestow.
C.F. Forbes

remember that constructions appearing between two commas, unless they are part of a list (X, Y, and Z), are modifiers and can therefore be struck from the sentence.

in choice (c), the "who" is NOT part of the modifier (since it's outside the commas). therefore, if you strike it, you get
Many financial experts believe that policy makers at the Federal Reserve who ... are almost certain to leave interest rates unchanged for the foreseeable future
this is a sentence fragment; there is no main verb.
analogy:
my brother is a consultant --> this is a sentence.
my brother(,) who is a consultant --> this is a fragment.

(note that "Many financial experts believe that" is a completely disposable "warm-up" and can be disregarded without changing or restricting the grammar of the sentence at all.)

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Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity [that] religion is powerless to bestow.
C.F. Forbes

Hi,

I have encountered the same problem in GMAT Prep test 2 .
My confusion is between the choices A and D .

I feel that option A is more ambiguous since it distorts the meaning, and makes it seem like "The federal reserve is viewing the economy and not the Policy makers".

In the Option D , the "Who" makes it clear that the sentence is referring to the policy makers and not the federal reserve who will be responsible for leaving the interest rates unchanged.

It would be a great if i can get some help on this.
Thanks.

With D, I see a big problem with "that". What is "that" referring to? "that" is trying to refer to something, but there is no antecedent in the sentence for "that" to refer to.

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Jamie Nelson
ManhattanGMAT Instructor

Hi -

I eliminated A and B strait away because of the , COMMA + ING modifier because it should also apply to the subject of the previous clause, which I thought be "Financial experts" but seeing the above post I can see "Many financial experts believe that" is just a warm up, which makes "Policy makers" the subject. So is there a way to identify these warm ups or is there a rule that i can use?

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Prasanna J

Hi please can someone pick this up?

Cheers

Hi JP , Lets first break up your qs.
comma + ing modifier - In this example this is a noun modifier and modifying the noun immediately preceding this . So this is modifying Policy makers and not financial experts. Verb modifier can modify preceding 'phrase', or verb modifier can refer to verb not attached to modifier .

I don’t think there has any thumb rule to know when the clause before that is just a warm up or has some bearing on the grammar on the later part even inside the subordinate clause.

Here the ‘that clause’ can stand on its own with modifier and active verb .
But for say if there has a subjunctive the warm up has huge impact on the later part .
Example -
Many financial experts demand that the policy makers should always listen Wall Street first, whenever making any law - This is wrong because of should.

Right version -
The financial experts demand that the policy makers listen wall street first, whenever making any law.

Expert opinion please .

Thanks,
PM.