Question:

In many corporations, employees are replace by automated equipments so that to save money.

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Check whether the verb after 'employees' is correctly passive, and whether the purpose phrase before 'save money' is a single clean idiom.
Updated On: Jul 21, 2026
  • Are replace by automated equipments so that to
  • Are being replaced by automated equipment in order to
  • Were replaced by automated equipment so as to
  • Are replacing by automated equipment such that
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The Correct Option is B

Solution and Explanation

The underlined part has two separate errors. "Are replace" is wrong subject-verb agreement with a passive construction, and it should be "are replaced" or "are being replaced". Also "so that to save money" mixes two structures: "so that ... can save" and "in order to save". Only one of these should be used.

  1. Option A: keeps the same errors as the original sentence, so it does not fix anything.
  2. Option B: changes "are replace" to "are being replaced", which is correctly passive and shows an ongoing process. It also replaces the faulty "so that to" with the clean purpose phrase "in order to". Both fixes work together and read naturally.
  3. Option C: shifts the tense to "were replaced", which wrongly suggests the replacement is already finished and no longer an ongoing corporate trend, so it changes the meaning.
  4. Option D: "are replacing" turns the employees into the ones doing the replacing, which reverses the intended meaning. The equipment replaces the employees, not the other way round.

Option B is the only version that keeps the passive sense correct and fixes the "so that to" error, so it is the answer.

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