Analysts believe that whereas bad decisions by elected leaders can certainly hurt the economy, no administration can really be said to control or manage all of the complex and interrelated forces that determine the nation’s economic strength.
Meaning Analysis
- Analysts believe
- that whereas bad decisions by elected leaders can certainly hurt the economy,
The sentence starts by presenting the belief of some analysts. Presence of the word whereas indicates that the sentence is going to present two contrasting beliefs. The first belief is that the economy of a country can suffer because of the incorrect decisions taken by the voted leaders of the country. Let’s continue reading to know about the other belief:
- no administration can really be said
- to control
- or manage all of the complex and interrelated forces
- that determine the nation’s economic strength.
This part presents the other belief. The analysts also believe that any government can really not control the multitude of factors affecting the economy.
In all, the sentence presents two contrasting beliefs of some analysts regarding how instrumental the government is with respect to its impact on the economy. They believe that the wrong decisions of the governments can surely harm their country’s economy. But again, the governments cannot control all the factors affecting the economy.
Error Analysis
The sentence conveys a clear meaning and has no grammatical errors. Hence, the sentence is correct as is.
POE
Choice A
Correct
This indeed is the correct answer choice.
Choice B
Incorrect
Structure Error
The expression …can be said that… is incorrect in the context of the sentence because what follows is the information about the administration only. Hence, the correct expression in such a case is …can be said to….. Take a look at the following sentence:
It can be said that the government did not plan well to stabilize the economy.
In the above mentioned sentence, use of …can be said that… is correct because what follows the verb phrase can be said is some information about a third party altogether that has not been mentioned in the sentence before this verb.
However, when the sentence intends to say something about the subject of the verb …can be said…, then it must be followed by to verb.
No administration can be said to control or manage everything perfectly.
Choice C
Incorrect
1. Parallelism Error
Use of that in the beginning of this choice forcibly makes …no administration can really… parallel to …that whereas…. However, since the first clause starts with whereas, the second clause should be an Independent clause to keep the sentence grammatical..
2. Parallelism Error
The parallel elements in the forced list, that whereas bad decisions… and that no administration can really be said…, are not connected by any connector such as and. A parallel list cannot exist without a connector.
Choice D
Incorrect
1. Structure Error
This choice repeats the structure errors of both Choice B and Choice C.
2. Parallelism Errors
This choice repeats both the parallelism errors present in Choice C.
Choice E
Incorrect
1. Structure Error
This choice repeats the parallelism error present in Choice C.
2. Parallelism Error
This choice repeats the parallelism error present in Choice C.
