Multiple choice softskills leadership

In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines have been priced to sell, and they are.

  1. are priced to sell, and they have

  2. are priced to sell, and they do

  3. are being priced to sell, and have

  4. had been priced to sell, and they have
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The sentence needs parallel structure to complete 'they are'. Option B 'they do' provides the correct completion - 'are priced to sell, and they do [sell]' maintains parallelism. The original sentence trails off incompletely with 'they are' hanging.

AI explanation

"They do" substitutes for "they do sell," which correctly conveys that the wines are actually selling as a result of being priced to sell. Using "they are" would be redundant since "priced to sell" already contains a form of "to be," and "they have" or "had been" don't logically complete the thought about the wines actually moving.

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