Not Trusting Themselves to Choose Wisely Among the Wide array of Investment Opportunities on the Market, Stockbrokers are Helping many People who Turn to them to Buy Stocks that could be Easily Bought Directly.

Question: Not trusting themselves to choose wisely among the wide array of investment opportunities on the market, stockbrokers are helping many people who turn to them to buy stocks that could be easily bought directly.

(A) stockbrokers are helping many people who turn to them to buy stocks that could be easily
(B) stockbrokers are helping many people who are turning to them for help in buying stocks that they could easily have
(C) many people are turning to stockbrokers for help from them to buy stocks that could be easily
(D) many people are turning to stockbrokers for help to buy stocks that easily could have been
(E) many people are turning to stockbrokers for help in buying stocks that could easily be

“Not trusting themselves to choose wisely among the wide array of investment opportunities on the market, stockbrokers are helping many people who turn to them to buy stocks that could be easily bought directly.” - is a GMAT sentence correction question. These types of questions contain grammatical errors in the underlined sentence and we have to choose the correct statement from the options. GMAT sentence correction is a part of GMAT verbal.

Answer: E

Explanation:

The given sentence correction question is tested by the given-below rules:

• Parallelism
• Comparison of two elements
• Modifiers

Not trusting themselves to choose wisely among the wide array of investment opportunities on the market, stockbrokers are helping many people who turn to them to buy stocks that could be easily bought directly.

(A) This answer choice incorrectly uses "Not trusting themselves...market" to change "stockbrokers", incorrectly implying that the stockbrokers don't trust themselves to settle on wisely among the big selection of investment opportunities on the market; the intended meaning is that a lot of people don't trust themselves to decide on wisely among the big range of investment opportunities on the market.
(B) This argument incorrectly uses the current perfective tense verb "have bought" to discuss with information that's permanent in nature.
(C) This answer choice uses the needlessly wordy phrase "help from them", resulting in awkwardness and redundancy; this usage is redundant, as "from them" may be deleted without a loss of clarity. Further, Option C uses the "verb ("be" during this sentence) + adverb ("easily" during this sentence)" construction instead of the "adverb + verb" construction; please remember, the "adverb + verb" construction is preferred over the "verb + adverb" construction.
(D) This answer choice incorrectly uses the current perfective verb "have...bought" to see information that's permanent in nature; please remember, information that's permanent in nature is best conveyed through the easy tense, and therefore the perfective tense (marked by the utilization of the helping verb “has/have”) is employed to explain events that concluded within the past but still affect this.
(E) This answer choice correctly uses "Not trusting themselves...market" to change "many people", conveying the intended meaning - that a lot of people don't trust themselves to settle on wisely among the big range of investment opportunities on the market. Moreover, Option E avoids the pronoun error seen in Option B, because it employs no pronouns.

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