Sentence Correction

Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damaged by toxic chemicals permits compensating state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not allow claims for injury to people.
(A) compensating state governments for damage to
(B) compensating state governments for the damaging of
(C) giving state governments compensation for damaging
(D) giving compensation to state governments for the damage of
(E) the giving of compensation to state governments for damaging

I like A.

Permit X to...

OA A

cata1yst wrote:I like A.

Permit X to...

Hey ,
permit X to Y where X refers to agent and Y refers to action... In this case

X=compensating state governments for damage
Y=their natural resources....
Does n't it look crazy...... or am I missing sth?

We have the command subjunctive here. To be more precise, it is the case when verbs only take infinitive. Such verbs include permit, advise, allow, want, persuade, forbid.

The structure of the sentence is: PERMIT sth/someone TO

In our case: PERMITS [compensating state governments for damage] TO

Does this makes sense to you?

If we use the elimination method we can discard C, D and E for redundancy (they feature both give +compensation); on the contrary, A and B use a single verb to describe that action.

B is incorrect because of the parallelism issue: 'damaging' v.s 'claims (in order to be parallel, it should be 'for claiming').