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by GmatKiss » Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:36 pm

According to some analysts, whatever its merits may be, the proposal of taxing away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.

(A) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing
(B) its merits, the proposal to tax
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing
(D) the proposal's merits, to tax
(E) the proposal's merits are, taxing

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by crick » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:55 pm

I will go with B here. proposal to tax sounds correct.

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by mundasingh123 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:10 pm

crick wrote:I will go with B here. proposal to tax sounds correct.

Crick

is it just a question of whats idiomatic and whats not .
proposal is a noun and to tax is an infinitive. Infinitives are adverbial modifiers so how can an infinitive modify a noun

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by mundasingh123 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:15 pm

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/100 ... t1344.html

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It looks like the decision is predicated on the difference in idiomatic usage between "proposal to tax..." and "proposal of taxing...". I think you'll agree that the former is better.

The usage of 'whatever' in this sentence is somewhat old-fashioned, but by no means incorrect. It's essentially equivalent to both words of 'regardless of' rolled up into one.

HTH. In any case, 1000SC problems are often not as clear-cut as the genuine article.

Ron , if you read this post , could you clarify my doubts in the previous post

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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:15 am

OA is A

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by bubbliiiiiiii » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:29 am

According to some analysts,
whatever its [proposal's] merits may be, the proposal of taxing away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.

I understand that proposal is subject and the verb[/color] used is have!

Can someone please correct me?

Regards,

Pranay

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