What if the sentence read - A 1972 agreement between Canada & United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities were allowed to dump into the Great lakes.
Will this sentence still be wrong?
Thanks!
Brian@VeritasPrep wrote:Great discussion, guys! Cans' explanation of D is perfect, but let me add this to what's wrong with A:
You can't retroactively limit how much municipalities were previously allowed to dump. A is illogical - you can't pass a law that says "remember five years ago? You weren't allowed to dump 1,000 gallons...now it's only 500 gallons that you were allowed back then." And that's what choice A says - that the 1972 agreement reduced previous amounts of dumping. The past perfect puts the reduction before 1972, and that's just not logical if you think about the timeline.
