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The company’s recent restructuring aims to streamline operations, reduce overhead costs, and improving employee morale among the production staff.

A reduce overhead costs, and improving employee morale among the production staff.
B to reduce overhead costs, and to improve employee morale among the production staff.
C reduce overhead costs, and improve employee morale among the production staff.
D reducing overhead costs, and improving employee morale among the production staff.

✓ Correct Answer: Option C

The original sentence violates parallelism. The phrase 'aims to streamline... reduce... and improving' requires all elements in the list to be in the same grammatical form. 'Improve' correctly parallels 'streamline' and 'reduce'.

💡 Why is C) the correct answer?

The correct answer to the question "The company’s recent restructuring aims to streamline operations, reduce overhead costs, and improving employee morale among the production staff." is Option C: reduce overhead costs, and improve employee morale among the production staff..

The other options — A) reduce overhead costs, and improving employee morale among the production staff., B) to reduce overhead costs, and to improve employee morale among the production staff., D) reducing overhead costs, and improving employee morale among the production staff. — are incorrect for this GMAT Exam Prep question. As explained above: The original sentence violates parallelism. The phrase 'aims to streamline... reduce... and improving' requires all elements in the list to be in the same grammatical form. 'Improve' correctly parall…

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