SC Practice question #19

[missionmba]

Despite what was hoped, the introduction of a sixty-five mile per hour speed limit is reducing neither congestion on rural highways, or it is not contributing to save gas for trucking companies and less pollution from the decreased amount of time trucks spend on the road.


reducing neither congestion on rural highways, or it is not contributing to save gas for trucking companies and less pollution

reducing neither the congestion on rural highways nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for trucking companies, or to less polluting

not reducing the congestion on rural highways nor is it contributing to save gas for trucking companies, and it is not lessening the pollution

not reducing the congestion on rural highways, it is not contributing to savings on gas for trucking companies, it is less pollution

not reducing congestion on rural highways, nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for truck companies or less pollution

[ramyaravindran]

IMO E

[reachac]

IMO E

[eccentric]

In my opinion the idiomatic expression neither X nor Y is correct usage option B hence in my view is correct...

can some one xplain why E is correct..

Regards

[Vignesh.4384]

Hi eccentric,

The last part of option B is not parallel

[studying_for_MBA]

I also think that the correct answer is B. Neither is it A nor (B or C) seems to be the correct idiomatic use and Neither X nor Y is anyway a parallel idiom. E also has the same structure nor (B or C) but neither nor idiom is not used correctly.

Regards

[nitin86]

Despite what was hoped, the introduction of a sixty-five mile per hour speed limit is reducing neither congestion on rural highways, or it is not contributing to save gas for trucking companies and less pollution from the decreased amount of time trucks spend on the road.


reducing neither congestion on rural highways, or it is not contributing to save gas for trucking companies and less pollution

reducing neither the congestion on rural highways nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for trucking companies, or to less polluting

not reducing the congestion on rural highways nor is it contributing to save gas for trucking companies, and it is not lessening the pollution

not reducing the congestion on rural highways, it is not contributing to savings on gas for trucking companies, it is less pollution

not reducing congestion on rural highways, nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for truck companies or less pollution

I eliminated E, because

.....not contributing to save gas for trucking companies .... in the main sentence is different from what is mentioned in option E

....contributing to lower gas costs for truck companies ....

But i couldn't find any correct option...

[yogesh_kkk]

IMO C

B and E are out because it changes the meaning

A neither or is not correct
D creates a run on sentences

[kiranlegend]

Despite what was hoped, the introduction of a sixty-five mile per hour speed limit is reducing neither congestion on rural highways, or it is not contributing to save gas for trucking companies and less pollution from the decreased amount of time trucks spend on the road.


reducing neither congestion on rural highways, or it is not contributing to save gas for trucking companies and less pollution

reducing neither the congestion on rural highways nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for trucking companies, or to less polluting

not reducing the congestion on rural highways nor is it contributing to save gas for trucking companies, and it is not lessening the pollution

not reducing the congestion on rural highways, it is not contributing to savings on gas for trucking companies, it is less pollution

not reducing congestion on rural highways, nor is it contributing to lower gas costs for truck companies or less pollution

clearly E is out because it talks about gas costs.. where did gas costs come from?? C is the clear winner.. more to corroborate my stance, the has a determiner 'the' .. what say guys?

[missionmba]

A and B -- out for "reducing" preceding Neither

E for introducing gas costs

First half of D is good but the second equally awakward.

So this leaves C

C also maintains parallelism

reducing, contributing and lessening

I dont have OA for this question but i most definetly want to find out the correct answer.

Experts pls help.