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by arorag » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:48 pm
On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.

A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by
imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that
a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a
United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment
for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold


what is wrong with D??
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Re: Law

by duke » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:43 pm
arorag wrote:On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.

A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by
imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that
a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a
United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment
for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold


what is wrong with D??
I went for A. But I do need expert's explanation...
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Re: Law

by reachac » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:52 pm
arorag wrote:On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by imprisonment that a United States citizen hold gold in the form of bullion or coins, immigrants found that on arrival in the United States they had to surrender all of the gold they had brought with them.

A. On account of a law passed in 1993, making it a crime punishable by
imprisonment that a United States citizen hold
B. With a law passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by imprisonment that
a United States citizen hold
C. A law passed in 1933 that made it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a
United States citizen holding
D. Because of a law passed in 1933 making it a crime punishable by imprisonment
for a United States citizen to hold
E. Due to a law being passed in 1933 that makes it a crime punishable by
imprisonment for a United States citizen to hold


what is wrong with D??
IMO A, but only after reading that D is wrong 8)

OA Please?

@arorag
I think D is wrong because the 'it' in the options needs to be well described, and the use of 'that' seems better to describe the crime 'it' is reffering to.

Please post if u disagree with the explanation or wana add smthng

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by schumi_gmat » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:39 am
Can anyone explain what is wrong with D?

I thought because is preferred over "on account of" in GMAT

Is this correct understanding
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:33 am
OA for this is D...I think...there is nothing wrong with it..
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by chase4meg » Thu Oct 09, 2008 7:53 pm
IMO D

"citizen to hold gold" is required? Thats leaves us with D and E - E is awkward.
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by schumi_gmat » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:04 pm
BTw OA is A
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Thu Oct 09, 2008 10:14 pm
A would have been correct if u put 'if' in it...if a US Citizen hold...
IMO D...to hold is req.
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by nervesofsteel » Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:17 am
one more vote for D
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by Stacey Koprince » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:04 am
So, people are going back and forth on A vs. D. This has actually been discussed in another thread on BTG and, there, the OA was listed as D.

I agree - D should be the answer. This is why it's so important, guys, to be careful where you're getting your source material. It's so easy for someone to make a typo somewhere as this stuff gets copied and pasted all over the web, and then you find yourselves trying to learn / memorize A and use the stuff there when it's not even the right answer. That's really dangerous (to your GMAT score, anyway).

Start with an idiom: it is a crime TO hold blah blah blah. Or: it is a crime FOR someone TO do something. Eliminate A, B, and C.

Now, on to D and E. E does make it sound like the law is "being" passed right now. In addition, later on it says that immigrants "HAD to surrender" - that's clearly taking place in the past. That also clearly has to take place after the law is passed. No good.

So we're left with D.
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by schumi_gmat » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:25 am
Thanks Stacey,

Source is Gmat Paper test.

Can you also throw some light on "On account of" v/s Because?
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by Stacey Koprince » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:47 am
The original source may be the GMAT paper test, but did you guys actually get it from the original source itself, so that you know for sure what the right answer is? Or did you get it online somewhere? When we get "official" stuff online, it's really no longer official, because we have to assume that some number of errors will be introduced via transcription, etc, as people pass things around. Many of the problems are fine, but many are not, and you don't know which are which. In this case, at some point, someone apparently introduced the error that the OA is A.

So that's what I meant by "be careful of your source" on this one!

The OG only discusses "because of" vs. "due to." The OG prefers "because of" rather than "due to" and considers using "due to" in place of "because of" incorrect. (This is somewhat obsolete in common language today, but OG apparently still holds to it, and what we care about is what OG says!)

I haven't found any OG discussion of "on account of" so I don't know what OG would prefer here. That's why I made my decision based upon other factors (and that's also why you should do the same!).

I did find this: https://www.bartleby.com/68/69/4269.html
so, assuming that OG follows conventional wisdom on this one, this difference is a "red herring" - a difference that doesn't actually indicate an incorrect usage in either case. Instead, they're just trying to get us to waste time thinking about something that's not an issue.

Remember: just because there's a difference in the words used doesn't always mean there's a grammatical error or distinction.
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by tanviet » Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:31 am
Stacey , pls help

I think both following idioms are correctt

make it a crime that...

and

make it a crime to do

B is wrong because "because of" is more logic than "with"

pls, confirm, Ron, Stacey
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by Stacey Koprince » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:02 am
I'm struggling to come up with a sentence that would use "make it a crime that."

The new law makes it a crime TO <do something>.
The new law makes it a crime FOR <someone> TO <do something>.
The new law makes <something> a crime.

Nope - I can't think of a way to use "that" after "crime" in this kind of sentence.
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by tanviet » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:16 pm
Once again I die because I read another grammar book(Practical English Usage), which said that "make it st to do" and "make it st that clause" are correct

OK, we are leaning gmat rules and now there is only

MAKE IT ST TO DO

Thank you Stacey very much. alway remember, we are learning gmat rule, not general grammmar
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