(A) Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be
(B) Consumers may not think of household cleaning products being
(C) A consumer may not think of their household cleaning products being
(D) A consumer may not think of household cleaning products as
(E) Household cleaning products may not be thought of, by consumers, as
Solution:
Idiom + Pronoun
“Think…as” is the correct usage.
Hence, A, B, and C can be eliminated. Moreover, B and C unnecessarily use ‘being’ and C uses ‘their’ for ‘consumer’.
E is passive and wordy.
Hence, D is the best choice.
OG Solution:
A correct sentence will follow the idiomatic form of expression to think ofX as Y. Only D, the best choice, uses as in the comparison. The infinitive to be in A and the participle being in B and C cannot grammatically and idiomatically connect those choices to the rest of the sentence. Moreover, in C the plural pronoun their does not agree with the singular noun referent, consumer. E is awkward and wordy in its use of the passive voice.
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