Multiple choice

Although the coordination of export policy can help facilitate the orderly financing of existing imbalances, it is quite unlikely that its effect on their size is significant, in the absence of an appropriate structural adjustment.

  1. it is quite unlikely that its effect on their size is significant

  2. it is quite unlikely that the size of their effect would be significant

  3. affecting their sizes are not likely to be quite significant

  4. the significance of their effect on its size is quite unlikely

  5. its effect on their size is not likely to be quite significant
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E Correct answer
Explanation

The most obvious error in all options is the wrong usage of ‘unlikely’ and ‘not likely’. ‘Unlikely’ used in options (1), (2) and (4) makes the occurrence of an event improbable whereas what we want to convey is that the effect of the measures taken is not going to be significant enough which gets reflected clearly in ‘not likely’. Options (2), (3) and (4) are also incorrect because of the wrong usage of ‘their’. Hence (5).

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