Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: One hallmark of the mortgage-banking crisis, robo-signing, in which ba

Not going to lie, I picked B without even reading the full sentence... and I should have:

'One hallmark of the mortgage-banking crisis, robo-signing, in which banks blindly accepted legal documents without checking them for accuracy or authenticity, has led to a series of lawsuits against large banks such as Bank of America and Citigroup.'

B is IMO correct ON ITS OWN, but if you read the whole sentence, it doesn't flow.

In Sentence A:
the part: 'in which banks blindly accepted legal documents without checking them for accuracy or authenticity,' Is a modifier of 'One hallmark of the mortgage-banking crisis'. At the end of this modifier, the sentence continues 'has led to a series of lawsuits...' and it flows perfectly

Sentence B: Try reading the sentence without the modifier, it just doesn't make sense:
Robo-signing was one hallmark of the mortgage-banking crisis,[Modifier], has led to a series of lawsuits against large banks such as Bank of America and Citigroup.'

Statistics : Posted by LucienH • on 28 Nov 2023, 01:30 • Replies 2 • Views 277

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