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by kartik1979 » Thu Apr 23, 2009 12:44 am
On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.
A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold




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by Vemuri » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:40 am
kartik1979 wrote:On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.
A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold

[spoiler]I have read somwhere that sentence starting with Because of/ On account of are idiomatically uncorrect is it true [/spoiler]
Nope. I don't think that is true.

A - Hold it. "On Account of" in GMAT is generally preferred over "Because of".
B - "With a law passed....that makes it...". Awkward construction.
C - 'holding gold..." changes the tense.
D - If "On Account of" is available as one of the options, "because of" can be sidelined (assuming that the rest of the construction is correct).
E - If you find 'being' in the sentence, more often than not, GMAT considers it wrong.

My answer is A. What's the OA?
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by mike22629 » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:50 am
I go with A as well

OA?
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by kartik1979 » Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:33 am
OA- D
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by Vemuri » Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:36 pm
kartik1979 wrote:OA- D
Hi karthik1979, what is the OA explanation?
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by kartik1979 » Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:46 am
No explaination provided

its a question from 1000 sc
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by rahulg83 » Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:38 am
Well I'd go with D..
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by criszerriny » Sat Apr 25, 2009 6:18 am
This is an idiom problem...Because of x, y. A sounds very awkward.
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by goelmohit2002 » Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:17 am
I guess A is wrong because comma + ing modifies the entire previous clause.....

which is not the case here...

can someone please confirm.....

IMO we need making without comma.
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by siddharth rastogi » Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:14 pm
On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.
A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold

my explanation for D

a-wrong as mohit said there is problem of comma. here comma is not needed as we do not want to modify the whole clause but the noun LAW, so Making without comma is needed to act as a Noun modifier and modifying the noun LAW.

Also there is problem of sub/verb agreement as hold used should be HOLDS for singular a citizen.

b- wrong for same sub/verb agreement
Also, I think that in A and B is ambigously modifying two nouns ( crime and imprisionment)

also WITH do not work here to complete the meaning of the sentense.

C- clearly do not work to complete the meaning

e- due to and being both are not required

D the correct answer


D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold

D clearly used because of in the sence of ( attributed to). Also, because of is correct when it is used as a PREPOSITONAL PHRASE. Also, here making is used correctly as a noun modifier( modyfying law) and idiom CRIME FOR is properly used to remove the ambiguity for THAT. and hold is properly used in infinitive form removing the sub\verb agreement issue.

EXPERTS PLEASE CORRECT ME WHERE I AM WRONG.
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by Rezinka » Wed Mar 09, 2011 3:24 am
A very old post but I don't see a solid explanation for D. I had come down to A and D and had chosen A.
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by czarczar » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:24 am
kartik1979 wrote:On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.
A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold




[spoiler]I have read somwhere that sentence starting with Because of/ On account of are idiomatically uncorrect is it true [/spoiler]
I suppose A is incorrect because the correct idiom is crime for.

so we are left with c and D.
C sounds like immigrants were founders of law.

OA: D ?
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by lizmurrey » Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:32 pm
Can anyone explain why B is wrong? Actually I saw from somewhere else that B is correct....thx...
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by czarczar » Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:43 pm
lizmurrey wrote:Can anyone explain why B is wrong? Actually I saw from somewhere else that B is correct....thx...
The meaning is not conveyed in b . If u will read the complete sentence it will be so with law immigrants found that.
Immigrants does not came with law or does not found with law but because of law.
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