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by prosaicblabber » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:20 am
There is growing demand in the state for "initiative and referendum," a procedure that allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them.
(A) allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them
(B) allows voters to propose, pass, and to repeal laws
(C) allows voters to propose, to pass, and repeal laws
(D) will allow the voter to propose, pass, as well as to repeal laws
(E) will allow laws to be proposed, passed, as well as repealed by voters

OA: A

what's wrong with D?

in sentences of such structure
to propose, pass as well as to repeal laws
is it implicit that propose and pass verbs refer to laws ?
i never have a "TO -DO" list and i end up having a lot of "NOW WAT TO DO ?" lists
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by hardik.jadeja » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:26 am
D is wrong because of multiple reasons. First, it unnecessarily uses future tense. Second, "to propose, pass, as well as to repeal laws" isn't parallel.

Hope that helps..
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by albatross86 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:32 am
D is wrong, because it should be "to propose, to pass, as well as to repeal laws"

Parallelism of the infinitive needs to be conserved throughout a list.
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by neerajbansal » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:30 pm
There is growing demand in the state for “initiative and referendum,� a procedure that allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them.

(A) allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them --> Cream of the crap...best choice!!
(B) allows voters to propose, pass, and to repeal laws --> to propose || pass || to repeal laws ( parallelism issue )
(C) allows voters to propose, to pass, and repeal laws -->to propose || to pass || repeal laws ( parallelism issue )
(D) will allow the voter to propose, pass, as well as to repeal laws -------> This is out because a procedure is singular..so needs allows
(E) will allow laws to be proposed, passed, as well as repealed by voters -------> This is out because a procedure is singular..so needs allows
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by paes » Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:58 am
D is wrong because a single voter can not pass the law.
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