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by andrey_tsi » Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:20 pm
Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damaged by toxic chemicals permits compensating state governments for damage to their natural resources but does not allow claims for injury to people.
(A) compensating state governments for damage to
(B) compensating state governments for the damaging of
(C) giving state governments compensation for damaging
(D) giving compensation to state governments for the damage of
(E) the giving of compensation to state governments for damaging
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by uwhusky » Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:50 pm
FYI: https://www.beatthegmat.com/federal-legi ... 42177.html

It's an idiom question.
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by andrey_tsi » Wed Jun 09, 2010 3:16 pm
uwhusky wrote:FYI: https://www.beatthegmat.com/federal-legi ... 42177.html

It's an idiom question.
I don't agree with that post, at least not "Permit... to..."
The right idiom is: permit smb to do. I didn't find such constraction at this sentence.
Can you explain your position about this idiomatic question?
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by uwhusky » Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:03 pm
More discussion at https://gmatclub.com/forum/sc-federal-le ... 69679.html
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by jeffedwards » Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:29 pm
andrey_tsi wrote:
uwhusky wrote:FYI: https://www.beatthegmat.com/federal-legi ... 42177.html

It's an idiom question.
I don't agree with that post, at least not "Permit... to..."
The right idiom is: permit smb to do. I didn't find such constraction at this sentence.
Can you explain your position about this idiomatic question?
Yes, often you can say "permit smb (noun) to do (infinitive)"
But you can also say
"permit noun"

Have you heard the saying "smoking not permitted"
This is a similar format to the question

Here are some more idioms with permit if you would like
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/permit
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by martin.jonson007 » Thu Jun 10, 2010 6:01 am
IMO A

To .... To structure

Damage to... Injury to

stil wud like to knw more comments on why D is wrong....
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by jeffedwards » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:28 am
martin.jonson007 wrote:
stil wud like to knw more comments on why D is wrong....

D - can be crossed off (second pass) because it's wordy.
Giving compensation to...is not necessarily wrong, but it would be more concise to just say compensating, as it is in A
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by uwhusky » Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:52 pm
Be careful, "damage to" and "damage of" have two different meanings.
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