During the industrial revolution, most of the government stimulus mone...
During the industrial revolution, most of the government stimulus money was spent on mining industrial metals that were needed to build heavy machinery and on building the infrastructure needed to carry large pieces of machinery across the country.
Meaning Analysis
This sentence presents the two projects on which most of the stimulus money was spent.
This question tests your ability to make the list parallel. It also tests whether you can select the answer choice that correctly conveys the intended meaning.
Error Analysis
The original sentence has no errors.
Answer Choices
A
mining industrial metals that were needed to build heavy machinery and on building the infrastructure needed to carry
Correct
B
mining industrial metals that were needed to build heavy machinery and when they built the infrastructure needed to carry
This choice has parallelism error since the two elements are not parallel as shown:
Money was spent
Element 1 = on mining metals
Element 2 = when they built
Element 1 shows the project on which the money was spent and Element 2 shows the timing of when the money was spent. These two elements therefore do not talk about a common topic. Furthermore, element 2 does not express the intended meaning.
C
mining industrial metals that were needed to build heavy machinery as well as on building of the infrastructure needed to carry
"mining industrial metals" is not grammatically parallel to "building of infrastructure".
D
the need to build heavy machinery that required mining of industrial metals and the building of infrastructure that was needed for carrying
This choice is very awkward, and it heavily distorts the meaning of the sentence. This choice indicates that money was spent on 'the need to build heavy machinery' as against the intended meaning that implies that money was spent 'on mining metals'.
E
mining industrial metals that were needed for building of heavy machinery and on building the infrastructure that was needed for carrying of
This choice is very wordy and awkward.