paritosh_b wrote:In a seven to four vote last week,Crane country officials decided to raise property taxes when it might have been expected for it to be lowered.

A. same as above - property taxes is plural, we can't use it, as it is singular...
B. they might have been expected to have reduced them - best choice...
C. they might have been expected that it should be reduced - same reason as A
D. its reducing might have been expected - its - same reason as A plus usage of reducing introduces a parallelism error....
E. there might have been an expectation for them to be reduced - akward and wordy...

hope i was able to articulate.... What is the source of the q...

kapur.arnav wrote:

paritosh_b wrote:In a seven to four vote last week,Crane country officials decided to raise property taxes when it might have been expected for it to be lowered.

A. same as above - property taxes is plural, we can't use it, as it is singular...
B. they might have been expected to have reduced them - best choice...
C. they might have been expected that it should be reduced - same reason as A
D. its reducing might have been expected - its - same reason as A plus usage of reducing introduces a parallelism error....
E. there might have been an expectation for them to be reduced - akward and wordy...

hope i was able to articulate.... What is the source of the q...

Actually, in choice B, they refers to the Crane county officials, while them refers to the taxes.

even though i selected B, i do not think the question is genuine. What is the source of the question?

I am not sure we can use 'they' and 'them' in the they are used in answer choice B

Can somebody answer this.

Jim@Grockit wrote:

kapur.arnav wrote:

paritosh_b wrote:In a seven to four vote last week,Crane country officials decided to raise property taxes when it might have been expected for it to be lowered.

A. same as above - property taxes is plural, we can't use it, as it is singular...
B. they might have been expected to have reduced them - best choice...
C. they might have been expected that it should be reduced - same reason as A
D. its reducing might have been expected - its - same reason as A plus usage of reducing introduces a parallelism error....
E. there might have been an expectation for them to be reduced - akward and wordy...

hope i was able to articulate.... What is the source of the q...

Actually, in choice B, they refers to the Crane county officials, while them refers to the taxes.

absolutely!!!