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by kashefian » Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:14 pm
In a controversial decision, the effects of which still reverberate today, the
Supreme Court decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation has the
same rights as does an individual and enabled them to donate money to
politicians.
A. and enabled them to donate money to politicians
B. and enabling them to donate money to politicians
C. and enabling it to donate money to politicians
D. and enabled it to donate money to politicians
E. and is able to donate money to politicians
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by sanabk » Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:35 pm
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by capnx » Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:09 pm
what's the OA?

I'd pick D
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by uwhusky » Wed Oct 06, 2010 6:19 pm
I'll pick E.

a corporation has the same rights as does an individual and is able to donate money to politicians.

All the other choices are nonsensical and missing an agent of verb.
Yep.
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by reply2spg » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:25 pm
IMO E

C and D are seem to be parallel to 'decided'. If it is so then meaning is getting changed. Therefore, E is correct.
kashefian wrote:In a controversial decision, the effects of which still reverberate today, the
Supreme Court decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation has the
same rights as does an individual and enabled them to donate money to
politicians.
A. and enabled them to donate money to politicians
B. and enabling them to donate money to politicians
C. and enabling it to donate money to politicians
D. and enabled it to donate money to politicians
E. and is able to donate money to politicians
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by ankurmit » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:36 pm
IMO E
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by karanrulz4ever » Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:24 pm
IMO E
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by niksworth » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:36 am
uwhusky wrote:I'll pick E.

a corporation has the same rights as does an individual and is able to donate money to politicians.

All the other choices are nonsensical and missing an agent of verb.
Isn't E nonsensical itself?

In certain legal respects, a corporation has the same rights as does an individual and is able to donate money to politicians.

In certain respects, a corporation is able to donate money to politicians - What does it even mean? Ugly.

I suspect D might be right.

The Supreme Court
- decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation has the same rights as does an individual
and
- enabled it to donate money to politicians.

This makes better sense. Not a stellar question though.
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by uwhusky » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:54 am
The way the sentence is structured, I thought that a corporation had to be the subject of the clause.

Perhaps the meaning might be little off, but I just can't see any other choice being correct grammar wise.

I'll just settle with this question being less than stellar.
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by bakhshaliyev » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:06 am
An inventory equal to 90 days sales is as much as even the strongest businesses carry, and then only as a way to anticipate higher prices or ensure against shortages.

a.
b. ....
c. so much as even

I could not decide which to choose a. or c. i have chosen c but the correct answer is a. can somebody explain me plz why a. is the correct answer?
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by clock60 » Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:16 am
vote for D,
while E does not contain any grammer mistakes, it does not convey the intended meaning,
the raeasons are the the same as mentioned by nicksworth
the court decided ..... and ennabled..
the company is able to donate without permissions, but it can be forbid to do so.
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by kashefian » Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:37 pm
I suspect D might be right.

The Supreme Court
- decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation has the same rights as does an individual
and
- enabled it to donate money to politicians.

This makes better sense. Not a stellar question though.
Totally agreed. Choice E does not make sense. However, the answers stated in book "Conquering GMAT verbal and writing" states the following:

Answer E. The "corporation" is a singular noun, so "them" does not
agree. Choices A and Choice B are incorrect. For parallelism purposes,
choice E is best because the clause reads "the corporation
has...and is..." The other choices use the wrong verb form.
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by Ramneet Singh » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:01 am
kashefian wrote:In a controversial decision, the effects of which still reverberate today, the
Supreme Court decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation has the
same rights as does an individual and enabled them to donate money to
politicians.
A. and enabled them to donate money to politicians
B. and enabling them to donate money to politicians
C. and enabling it to donate money to politicians
D. and enabled it to donate money to politicians
E. and is able to donate money to politicians
From what i gathered from the following url, it is not the court which enables an entity to do something but the laws that the court pass or the judgement or the provisions that enable.
however i am still not sure 100% sure.
https://examples.yourdictionary.com/enable
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by gmatrix » Fri Oct 08, 2010 2:53 am
my pick E

read it as:

a corporation has the same rights as does an individual and

a corporation .... is able to donate money to politicians

is correctly denotes the singular noun-corporation
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by bdevas01 » Fri Oct 08, 2010 4:54 am
The answer is E

The is a parallelism question:

The supreme court decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation has the same rights as does an individual.

AND

The supreme court decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation is able to donate money to politicians.

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WRONG:

The supreme court decided that in certain legal respects, a corporation enabled/enables to donate money to politicians.
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