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A New York City oridnance (GMATPrep)

by freshy » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:04 pm
A New York City ordinance of 1897 regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted pedestrians right-of-way.


A. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
B. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, granting
C. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
D. regulating the use of bicycles, mandating a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, requiring of cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted
E. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted

OA: E
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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:37 pm
A New York City ordinance of 1897 regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted pedestrians right-of-way.


A. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
"it is not required at the end"
We need regulating.....not regulated.

B. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, granting
We need regulating.....not regulated.

C. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
"it is not required at the end"


D. regulating the use of bicycles, mandating a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, requiring of cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted
granted parallel to what ?

E. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted
IMO best
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Re: A New York City oridnance (GMATPrep)

by BlindVision » Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:49 pm
freshy wrote:A New York City ordinance of 1897 regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted pedestrians right-of-way.


A. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
B. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, granting
C. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
D. regulating the use of bicycles, mandating a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, requiring of cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted
E. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted

OA: E
E) Maintains parallelism. required cyclists to keep is a command subjunctive and it's in the correct form: command + subject + "to be" form.
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by lunarpower » Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:31 am
A. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an
hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all
times, and it granted
not parallel.
you can't have just "mandated" in parallel to "IT granted".

"required of X to do Y" is also unidiomatic.

finally, "regulated the use of bicycles" SHOULD NOT be parallel to the other elements, because the ideas aren't parallel. (all the other ideas in the list are subsumed under "regulated the use of bicycles".)
B. regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an
hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all
times, granting
you can't have a list without "and" in front of the final element.

as in (a), "regulated the use of bicycles" SHOULD NOT be parallel to the other elements, because the ideas aren't parallel. (all the other ideas in the list are subsumed under "regulated the use of bicycles".)

C. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an
hour, required cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars
at all times, and it granted
not parallel.
you can't have just "mandated" in parallel to "IT granted".

also, "required X that they do Y" is not idiomatic.
D. regulating the use of bicycles, mandating a maximum speed of eight miles an
hour, requiring of cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on
handlebars at all times, and granted
not a sentence. you can't use "-ing" forms as verbs.

also, "granted" is not parallel to the "-ing" forms anyway.
E. regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an
hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all
times, and granted
correct.

note that "regulating the use of bicycles" is NOT parallel to the other items. this is the way the sentence should be written.
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