In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday, believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made over productive by advances in technology.
(A) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(B) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation instead of a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(C) believing that it was not a temporary expedient but a seeming permanent accommodation to what many observers thought of as
(D) not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent accommodation to what many observers thought was
(E) not as a temporary expedient but believing it a seemingly permanent accommodation for what many observers thought
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C
Option D
1) not as…but as ..perfect parallelism
2) “Believing it ” —> What does pronoun it refer to ????
Has to be D
“it” refers to the six hour workday
D
D
D
Answer is (D)
D for Dumbo
D
D
I will go with option D.
D
D
D
The answer id D VERY VERY SIMPLE
it should be C
d
(D)