Each sentence has a part which is underlined. Beneath the sentence you will find four ways of phrasing the underlined part. Follow the requirements of the standard written English to choose your answer. Selection should make the sentence clear, exact and free of grammatical error. It should minimize awkwardness, ambiguity and redundancy.
Large and experienced firms are more efficient at acquiring smaller and distressed firms than are large and inexperienced firms, and converting them to profitable ventures.
Option AĀ is a distorted statement rephrasing as it has removed the comparison between large and experienced firms with large and inexperienced firms. Option D can be ruled asĀ each clause needs a subject and a verb. Since DĀ is missing the model verb 'are', it is not grammatically correct.
Between B and C, since B is grammatically accurate and has more consistency than C,
the correct option is B.
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