OG12-sc-101 求救-commit 、commitment；noun phrases; native speaker

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101. Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

(A) Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.

(B) An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that worked well in the past, makes missing signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting ones likely when they do appear.

(C) An executive who is heavily committed to a course of action is likely to miss or misinterpret signs of incipient trouble when they do appear, especially if it has worked well in the past.

(D) Executives’ being heavily committed to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes them likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpreting them when they do appear.

(E) Being heavily committed to a course of action, especially one that has worked wellin the past,is likely to make an executive miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.


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A.Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action, especially if it has worked well in the past, makes it likely to miss signs of incipient trouble or misinterpret them when they do appear.
* "heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action" is awkward and difficult to read. (you may have to be a native speaker to pick up on this, though)

Noun:"Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action"; the whole clause is: executive Heavy commited to a course of action.
Ron,you said the Noun phrase is awkward. but when we need to change a whole clause with Suject, Verb, and Object into a Noun phrase for the context, we only have several ways.
1# Heavy commitment by an executive to a course of action
2# Heavy commitment, by an executive, to a course of action
3# Heavy commitment to a course of action by an executive
4# executive's Heavy commitment to a course of action

4# can be right in GMAT(for example, 'Stephen have researched a phenomenon that most scientists agree is caused by human beings' burning of fossil fuels'; if you need a real gmat question, see OG12 #118), and 3# can also be right in GMAT(Hmmm! actually can be seen everywhere); So i assume that Ron, you will not think them awkward.

with repect to 1# and 2#, i don't find any convinced examples for/against the legitimacy of them(except for one in OG 10 #188--'Household cleaning products may not be thought of, by consumers, ashazardous substances' in wrong choice E). it seems likely that as you said, they ARE awkward.
Acctully, when first facing the problem, i see the awkward contruct although i am not a native speaker, but not to the exent--"to pick up on this"as a wrong choice; i am not sure whether we can kill the choice whenever finding 1# and 2# contruction in it.
Ron, what is your opinion?(are 3# and 4# better than 1# and 2#?)

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