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Most states impose limitations

by tracyyahoo » Thu Oct 06, 2011 6:16 am
Most states impose limitations on the authority of the legislature to borrow money,with their objectives being to protect taxpayers and the credit of the state government.
A. to borrow money, with their objectives being to protect.
B. to borrow money, the objectives of which are the protecting of
C. to borrow money, limitations intended to protect.
D. for borrowing money, of which the objective is protecting.
E. for borrowing money, limitations with the intent of protecting

OA is C why not E???

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by GmatKiss » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:37 am
Cant you underline the part under study!

It takes 10 times more effort to look into a SC without any underline!
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by sl750 » Thu Oct 06, 2011 11:10 am
To borrow is the correct usage
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by mukgera » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:57 pm
tracyyahoo wrote:Most states impose limitations on the authority of the legislature to borrow money,with their objectives being to protect taxpayers and the credit of the state government.
A. to borrow money, with their objectives being to protect. -- Being not needed
B. to borrow money, the objectives of which are the protecting of -- Parallelism issue
C. to borrow money, limitations intended to protect. -- Correct
D. for borrowing money, of which the objective is protecting. -- to borrow is correct here
E. for borrowing money, limitations with the intent of protecting --- Same as D

OA is C why not E???

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by sumitpune » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:40 am
Correct Answer is C
to borrow .... to protect ( C is more concise than A).

Now Why E is wrong is
for borrowing money, limitations with the intent of protecting

for borrowing .... of protecting looks ||el but
limitations intended in C looks better than limitations with the intent

ok if you want solid grammatical rule for this here it is

preposition + noun + VERBing almost always wrong in GMAT

in choice E it is
"with" + "the intent of" + "protecting"

that's the RULE !! don't ask me why

HTH..
Sumit

PS : Please verify this Rule by your side and check in OG for such combination before trusting it
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by tracyyahoo » Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:23 pm
I don't know why every time I underlie something, I will be transfered to the home page....


GmatKiss wrote:Cant you underline the part under study!

It takes 10 times more effort to look into a SC without any underline!
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by crick » Tue Oct 18, 2011 4:38 am
tracyyahoo wrote:I don't know why every time I underlie something, I will be transfered to the home page....
Download Google chrome or any other browser and load the page in that. I face the same issue with IE.

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by GmatKiss » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:08 am
tracyyahoo wrote:I don't know why every time I underlie something, I will be transfered to the home page....

So you prefer to trouble everyone else, for your problem ?? :D

GmatKiss wrote:Cant you underline the part under study!

It takes 10 times more effort to look into a SC without any underline!
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