Hi kvcpk,pnk wrote:granted...does it require 'allow'!! I think usage of 'allowing' is redundant as granted communicates the same. Not convinced with OA. IMO B - can some expert help plskvcpk wrote:By a unanimous vote, the city council granted the school board considerable autonomy allowing it to make spending decisions without seeking council approval.
A.allowing it to make spending decisions
B. for it to make spending decisions
C. for making decisions of spending
D. that enable them to make decisions for spending
E. that they can make spending decisions
This is an important structure that comes up often in the SC. Once function a word ending in --ing serves is to describe an entire preceding clause. (This kind of --ing is the present participle.)
Take a look at the following example:
Forty-four species of flowering plants became extinct this year, leaving the the diversity of the Earth's fauna in a dangerous state.
The word "leaving" is actually a descriptive word about the entire scenario depicted up until the comma.
The same structure appears in the problem above (although a comma MUST appear):
The city council granted the school board autonomy, allowing it to make spending decisions.
The entire scenario-- of the council granting autonomy to the school board-- is described as "allowing..."
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