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by fiza gupta » Sun Oct 09, 2016 12:37 am
Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide ban prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.

A) prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
B) prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
C) prohibiting landfills from accepting leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
D) that leaves, brush, and grass clippings cannot be accepted in landfills.
E) that landfills cannot accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
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by crackverbal » Mon Oct 10, 2016 9:25 am
'prohibiting to' is incorrect idiomatic usage. the correct usage is 'prohibiting X from doing Y' and similarly 'forbid to'.

However, it is okay to say for example - "It is prohibited to park in this street".
I think in this case "to park in this street" is not part of the idiomatic construction, but it refers to the dummy "it". So, the sentence actually is - "To park in this street is prohibited".

Hence, A is incorrect.
B - "prohibiting that" is unidiomatic. The correct idiom to use with 'prohibit' is 'prohibiting X from doing Y'.
C - correct answer.
D and E - Incorrect usage of 'ban that'. We do not say 'ban that X cannot Y'. Here is a correct usage of 'ban that'- "The US Court rejected a ban that currently prohibits Michigan from instituting affirmative action policies in higher education." Note that there is no noun(X) after the 'ban that'.
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