How good is your grasp of English? Take this official test that befuddled a Forum member:
Choose the best answer among the five ways of phrasing the underlined part in the sentence below: “Outsourcing jobs to a consulting firm in another country is more cost-effective than paying employees locally, but
overwhelmingly negative are its effects on customer satisfaction.”
(A) overwhelmingly negative are its effects on customer satisfaction
(B) it has overwhelmingly negative customer satisfaction effects
(C) in its customer satisfaction effects it is overwhelmingly negative
(D) there are the overwhelmingly negative effects in customer satisfaction
(E) its effects on customer satisfaction are overwhelmingly negative
Now
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