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by nationalfuel » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:55 pm
936.Wisconsin, Illinois, Florida, and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
(A) prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings
(B) prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings
(C) prohibiting landfills from accepting leaves, brush, and grass clippings
(D) that leaves, brush, and grass clippings cannot be accepted in landfills
(E) that landfills cannot accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

why E is wrong?

the meaning of bans and prohibiting is same. why these two words put
together?
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by sibbineni » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:27 pm
IMO C

prohibit X from Y is the idiom
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by gmattester » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:18 pm
Answer should be 'A' and not 'C'.

Correct Idiom are:
Prohibits to
Forbids from

Can someone verify this.
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by Mani_mba » Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:40 pm
correct idioms are:

forbid x to do y
prohibits x from doing y.
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by gmattester » Wed Jul 30, 2008 10:00 pm
You are right. I was just thinking in wrong way....
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by GmatKiss » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:49 am
IMO:C
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