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State lawmakers are considering a law allowing children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent with whom they will live, which will likely dissuade those parents from disciplining or punishing their children.

a. allowing children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent with whom they will live, which will likely dissuade those parents
b. that would allow children as young as seven whose parents are divorced to choose the parent with whom they will live, a policy that would likely dissuade those parents
c. that would allow children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent that they will live with, a policy that will likely dissuade their parents
d. allowing children as young as seven whose parents are divorced to choose the parent who they will live with, likely dissuading those parents
e. that will allow children as young as seven with divorced parents to choose which parent with whom to live, a policy likely dissuading their parents

What is the correct ans here?

akshaykerur wrote:State lawmakers are considering a law allowing children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent with whom they will live, which will likely dissuade those parents from disciplining or punishing their children.

a. allowing children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent with whom they will live, which will likely dissuade those parents
b. that would allow children as young as seven whose parents are divorced to choose the parent with whom they will live, a policy that would likely dissuade those parents
c. that would allow children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent that they will live with, a policy that will likely dissuade their parents
d. allowing children as young as seven whose parents are divorced to choose the parent who they will live with, likely dissuading those parents
e. that will allow children as young as seven with divorced parents to choose which parent with whom to live, a policy likely dissuading their parents

What is the correct ans here?

IMO B

in A which has no clear antecedent.
IN C as young as seven seems to modify parents
IN D again present partciple dissuading is a problem and those...?
IN E with whom to live is not correct..
plz correct me if wrrong..
thnx...

Definitely B

Definitely B.
with POE we come down to just B and C.
Since the non underlined portion says that state lawmakers are CONSIDERING ...
the use of WOULD seems appropriate gramatically.

C - that would allow children of divorced parents as young as seven to choose the parent

incorrectly implies that parents are seven yrs old. hence C is out.

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