Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the RecordTown and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores
E. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed

Can any expain why OA is C? Should we use "announce that" here?

Also, what's wrong with D? is "announce to be closing" correct or not? how about "on account of poor sales"?

Thanks!

Can anyone help on this?

Thanks!

C is better than D


announced that is always correct..

after <to be closing> there is a modifier error also

"on account of poor sales" is modifying what?Wrong Usage

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But in C it is only 'announced', not 'announced that', that's why I think C is out.

Gprep collects its Qs from the likes of NYT, The Economist
related source:http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/08/business/company-briefs-029980.html
year-1996
TRANS WORLD ENTERTAINMENT CORP., Albany, which owns the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that it was closing up to one-fourth of its stores because of poor sales. The company closed 180 stores last year.


someone at BTG says

announced can be used without that.
Read this http://www.thefreedictionary.com/announce:
EX: snowdrops announced the arrival of spring

Hope that helps!!

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why wouldn't it announce that it "WILL BE CLOSING"......

Instructor can you please shed some light on this question..

-- It is my understanding

A. Tense error
announced [past tense] ..are poor [present] they will be closed[future]

B. it is closing [implies that the process is on going -- present continuous ]

C. it was closing [past tense] -- agrees with announced

D. to be closing -- not sure what this one is, but it does not sound right

E. awkward sentence construction.

Again, the OA is C.

But I am not sure in the reasoning aspect of each choice

is this problem really from GMATPrep?
it doesn't look like an official problem. you would want "that" here, as noted above. also, "it would be closing" would be better than "it was closing", since this was a future event at the time of the announcement.

does anyone have a screen shot to prove that this problem is, indeed, official?

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this is irrelevant to the question above, since "the arrival of spring" is a noun phrase, not a clause.
the normal usage is
X announced that CLAUSE
X announced NOUN/NOUN PHRASE

Oh this is an official problem indeed, I chose A, i have a screen shot but i can't figure out how to upload it here.

OA is C

Is the problem correctly transcribed? For instance, is the word "that" actually part of the underline?

Can you please check every single word in the transcription, including the placement of the underline?

Thanks!

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