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The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an American digital copyright law has stirred significant opposition, against both the law itself and against the software company that had initiated the case.

(A) against both the law itself and against the software company that had
(B) against both the law itself and also the software company having
(C) against both the law itself and the software company that
(D) both against the law itself and the software company that had
(E) both against the law itself and also against the software company having
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Re: The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2013, 20:47
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The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an American digital copyright law has stirred significant opposition, against both the law itself and against the software company that had initiated the case.

(A) against both the law itself and against the software company that had
(B) against both the law itself and also the software company having parallelism error; both X and Y; also messed the parallelism; having at the end is also wrong
(C) against both the law itself and the software company that
(D) both against the law itself and [against] the software company that had against is missing in the second part
(E) both against the law itself and also against the software company having same reason as B


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"against" is preposition in this case
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Re: The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an [#permalink] New post   28 Dec 2020, 04:44
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The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an American digital copyright law has stirred significant opposition, against both the law itself and against the software company that had initiated the case.

(A) against both the law itself and against the software company that had
(B) against both the law itself and also the software company having
(C) against both the law itself and the software company that
(D) both against the law itself and the software company that had
(E) both against the law itself and also against the software company having


This question is based on Parallelism and Verb forms.

The sentence contains the correlative conjunctions ‘both-and’. To maintain parallelism, each of the pair must be followed by a word of the same part of speech.

In Option A, ‘both’ is followed by the noun ‘the law’; the conjunction ‘and’ is followed by the preposition ‘against’. This option has the past perfect tense ‘had initiated’, which is incorrect as the other verb in the sentence is in the present perfect tense. Since there is an error of tense and a lack of parallelism in this option, Option A can be eliminated.

In Option B, ‘both’ is followed by the noun ‘the law’ but the conjunction ‘and’ is followed by the adverb ‘also’. The adverb is redundant in this sentence, since the conjunction ‘and’ is already present. The participle form ‘having’ is inappropriate as a verb form is required to complete the clause. So, Option B can be eliminated.

In Option D, ‘both’ is followed by the preposition ‘against’ but ‘and’ is followed by the noun ‘the software company’. Option D also contains the same error of tense as Option A. So, Option D can be eliminated.

Option E is wordy. This option also lack parallelism. In this option, ‘both’ is followed by the preposition ‘against’ but ‘and’ is followed by the adverb ‘also’. So, Option E can be eliminated.

In Option C, ‘both’ is followed by the noun ‘the law’; ‘and’ is followed by the noun ‘the software company’. The simple past tense ‘initiated’ is appropriate in the sentence as it conveys an action that took place some time in the past. Therefore, C is the most appropriate option.

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Re: The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an [#permalink] New post   30 Aug 2021, 05:37
Hi guys at CrackVerbal,

If you could please explain if the placement of the verb had in option D is required or not. Basically, can the use of verb had also be a marker for elimination.
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Re: The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an [#permalink] New post   31 Aug 2021, 01:27
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"Had" is definitely wrong. To use the past perfect ("had initiated"), we'd need to be describing one past action that preceded another past action that also appears in the sentence. There's no other past verb, so we can't use past perfect. If the main clause were in simple past tense ("The arrest stirred opposition"), we could use past perfect, but I still wouldn't. The meaning would be clear enough without it.
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