Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.

(A)the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package

(B)the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for the automobile company's severance package

(C)their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers

(D)their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers

(E)the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers

I can't see the difference between D and E. The OA is D. Please help ~

Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package even if they find a new job before they are terminated.

(A)the last day scheduled to collect, workers at the automobile company are eligible for its severance package

(B)the last day they are scheduled to collect, workers are eligible for the automobile company's severance package

(C)their last scheduled day to collect, the automobile company offers its severance package to workers

(D)their last scheduled day in order to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers

(E)the last day that they are scheduled to collect, the automobile company's severance package is available to workers


E appears to be more wordy than D. Also, their refers to workers in D which is correct. In E they may refer to severance packages or workers.

Hence D.

Thanks

the problem here is ambiguity:
possible interpretation #1 = what it's supposed to mean
possible interpretation #2 = they're scheduled to collect (note that's one piece) on multiple different collection days, and they have to wait until the last of those collection days for ... something to happen

no such ambiguity exists in d.



not an issue here: 'they' and 'their' have exactly the same possible antecedents. so apparently this is good enough to refer to 'workers' in either choice.
remember, if you have the same pronoun 'issue' in all of the answer choices (or at least in all the choices that have a fighting chance of being correct), then it's not really an issue at all.

Ron, I wonder how many '800+6's you have got... haha, thank you very much!

i have hundreds of them.
one time a couple of them fell out of my pocket at a club, and these two random bouncers wound up getting into hbs.
true story

Haha Ron, I am really jealous of those bouncers. I also hope to wind up getting into hbs ...

Anyway, if I can finally go to the US (preferrably the hbs), I would be honored to meet you and make a friend with you, since I always admire people who can do the best whatever they do. If possible, send me an email at philip9999@gmail.com. Let's keep in touch. Thank you very much!