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by jain2016 » Mon May 09, 2016 9:04 am
The globalization of financial-services companies has been a boon to money launders,
because of allowing money placed in a bank in a less regulated jurisdiction to be
transferred
to a branch in a more regulated one.


A. of allowing money placed in a bank in a less regulated jurisdiction to be
transferred
B. of allowing the transfer of money placed in a bank in a less regulated jurisdiction
C. it allows that money placed in a bank in a less regulated jurisdiction is transferred
D. it allows the transfer of money have been placed in a bank in a less regulated
jurisdiction
E. it allows money placed in a bank in a less regulated jurisdiction to be transferred

OAE

Hi Experts ,

Please advise why C is wrong.

Many thanks in advance.

SJ
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by ceilidh.erickson » Mon May 09, 2016 11:41 am
The construction ALLOW + THAT is a questionable one. The preferred idiom is ALLOW + TO, especially when "allow" is used in the sense "to grant permission" or "enable."

In my opinion, ALLOW + THAT should only be used when "allow" means "to acknowledge a point": "I will allow that he is smart, but he doesn't work very hard." I doubt you'd ever see this usage on the GMAT, though - it's pretty archaic.
Ceilidh Erickson
EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
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