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    In an attempt to guarantee the security of its innovative water purification method, the company required each employee to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies using an analogous purification process.

    A. prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies
    B. prohibiting them from the disclosing of its water purification methods to any company
    C. prohibiting disclosure of its water purification methods to any company
    D. that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies
    E. that would prohibit its water purification methods to be disclosed to a company

    OA: C. I was undecided between A anc C. I read in a forum that "prohibiting that" is problematic, but I don't understand why.



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    Post Sat May 05, 2012 3:49 pm
    simone88 wrote:
    In an attempt to guarantee the security of its innovative water purification method, the company required each employee to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies using an analogous purification process.

    A. prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies
    B. prohibiting them from the disclosing of its water purification methods to any company
    C. prohibiting disclosure of its water purification methods to any company
    D. that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies
    E. that would prohibit its water purification methods to be disclosed to a company

    OA: C. I was undecided between A anc C. I read in a forum that "prohibiting that" is problematic, but I don't understand why.
    The other way to handle is to look at

    1) COMPANIES...AN..PROCESS (AN PURIFICATION PROCESS requires we use singular COMPANY); DROP A/D
    2) Its a subjunctive so WOULD is not correct; drop E
    3) prohibiting THEM (them does not have any antecedent); drop B/D

    IMO C

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    Post Sat May 05, 2012 4:00 pm
    [quote="simone88"]In an attempt to guarantee the security of its innovative water purification method, the company required each employee to sign a confidentiality agreement prohibiting that its water purification methods be disclosed to companies using an analogous purification process.

    A. using an -ing verb with "that" doesn't work
    B. Pronoun error--"them" refers to "employee"
    C. correct
    D. Same pronoun error as B
    E. Using the conditional "would" doesn't work

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    Post Sat May 05, 2012 9:28 pm
    Please take sometime and underline the question to make it readable.

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    Post Sun May 06, 2012 6:01 am
    Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:
    A. using an -ing verb with "that" doesn't work
    in the sense that it should be prohibiting its water purification methods be disclosed...?

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    Post Sun May 06, 2012 6:03 am
    Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:
    B. Pronoun error--"them" refers to "employee"
    so if I wanted to make it correct I should say prohibiting it?

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    Post Sun May 06, 2012 10:03 am
    simone88 wrote:
    Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:
    A. using an -ing verb with "that" doesn't work
    in the sense that it should be prohibiting its water purification methods be disclosed...?
    "Prohibiting its water purification methods FROM being disclosed" would be better. We can't use "be" on its own there.

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    so if I wanted to make it correct I should say prohibiting it?
    We can't use "it" to refer to people.

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    Post Tue May 08, 2012 2:42 am
    ok, all clear so far
    thx

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