Sentence Correction

komal wrote:Agencies studying discrimination in housing have experimentally proved that minority clients are often discouraged as prospective buyers of residential real estate and the antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices.

that minority clients are often discouraged as prospective buyers of residential real estate needs to be llel with the other part after and

pattern of llelism is THAt sub( minority clients) verb phrase (are often discouraged) and THAT sub verb
now eliminate options
(A) the antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices
does not starts with THAT


(B) in recent decades, the antidiscrimination legislation only mitigated, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices

does not starts with THAT



(C) that antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades has only mitigated, rather than abolished, inequity in housing practices
pattern followed correct


(D) that, in recent decades, antidiscrimination legislation has only mitigated, rather than abolishing, housing practices' inequity

mitigated, rather than abolishing.not llel


(E) that recent decades' antidiscrimination legislation only were mitigating, rather than abolishing, housing practices' inequity
possesive form changes meaning

C is correct

komal wrote:
Agencies studying discrimination in housing have experimentally proved that minority clients are often discouraged as prospective buyers of residential real estate and the antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices.

(A) the antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices

(B) in recent decades, the antidiscrimination legislation only mitigated, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices

(C) that antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades has only mitigated, rather than abolished, inequity in housing practices

(D) that, in recent decades, antidiscrimination legislation has only mitigated, rather than abolishing, housing practices' inequity

(E) that recent decades' antidiscrimination legislation only were mitigating, rather than abolishing, housing practices' inequity

OA C

money9111 wrote:i narrowed this one down to C & D... but only chose C because D seemed like it had too many comma's :-/