By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.
(A) enabling it to withhold from the public
(B) for it to withhold from the public
(C) for withholding disclosure to the public of
(D) that enable them to withhold from public disclosure
(E) that they can withhold public disclosure of
OA: A
1. OG said that the -ing form modifies "powers". Because -ing form is often wrong in gmat SC, I can't convince myself enabling modifies "powers". Why do we need an -ing form as modifier? What do we call this kind of structure in grammar (e.g. Gerund modifier) ?
2. If I change the sentence as follows:
By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers, enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.
Will the sentence be wrong because "enabling" is now modifying "the Supreme Court"? Again, what do we call this kind of structure in grammar?
(A) enabling it to withhold from the public
(B) for it to withhold from the public
(C) for withholding disclosure to the public of
(D) that enable them to withhold from public disclosure
(E) that they can withhold public disclosure of
OA: A
1. OG said that the -ing form modifies "powers". Because -ing form is often wrong in gmat SC, I can't convince myself enabling modifies "powers". Why do we need an -ing form as modifier? What do we call this kind of structure in grammar (e.g. Gerund modifier) ?
2. If I change the sentence as follows:
By a vote of 9 to 0, the Supreme Court awarded the Central Intelligence Agency broad discretionary powers, enabling it to withhold from the public the identities of its sources of intelligence information.
Will the sentence be wrong because "enabling" is now modifying "the Supreme Court"? Again, what do we call this kind of structure in grammar?
