SC

mandeepak · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:04 am Post subject: SC

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

moneyman · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:08 am Post subject:

Is it C?

soomodh · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:11 am Post subject:

My answer is D. Idiom => Prohibit X from Y

A)
B) disclosing of its - wordy and whole sentence is awkward
C) if we need to use prohibiting, it should be used as adverbial modifier and should have comma,
D) that correctly refers to agreement prohibit X (employees) from Y (discloye of its ..) and them clearly refres to employees

ranji · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:18 pm Post subject:

I have my doubts on D

'that would prohibit them.....' --> them cannot refer to 'each employee, which is singular.

enlightenment · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:23 pm Post subject:

I'm going with C on this one. I don't really have an explanation other than it's the one that sounds the most correct to me.

On D ("that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies") I feel that there should be a "the" in front of "disclosure" for it to be correct, or change "disclosure" to "disclosing" and get rid of "of."

gmatrant · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

I go with C on this one.

D cant be right , as it is 'each employee' while the corrected part reads
"that would prohibit them from", each employee and them, is wrong SV agreement.

your thoughts on this.

ranji · Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject:

OA pls?

Danielle · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 7:53 pm Post subject:

It's C.

A -- 'prohibiting that' is problematic and 'be disclosed' is passive. ot the best choice.

B -- 'the disclosing of' is awkward and incorrect.

C -- this one is correct. This is another way to phrase prohibiting besides "prohibit X from Y"

D-- 'that would prohibit' is the wrong tense. 'That prohibits' would have been more correct.

E -- same as D and 'that would be disclosed' is passive

ri2007 · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:20 pm Post subject:

Danielle

Thanks a lot for your earlier reply. Can you also comment on the following:

In the sentence below is from disclosure correct? I eleminated D because I felt that was incorrect. Would appreciate your inputs.

that would prohibit them from disclosure of its water purification methods to companies

Thanks in advance

Danielle · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:38 am Post subject:

The sentence below would be correct, but 'disclosure' should be 'disclosing'. The convention is usually prohibit X from Y-ing. So it should be "that would prohibit them from disclosing its water purification methods to companies."

ri2007 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:58 am Post subject:

Thanks a lot Danielle.