There is growing demand in the state for “initiative and referendum,”

Hi Abhinav, logically speaking, propose and pass the laws is one unit (since one would logically propose a law and then pass it) while repealing is another unit.

Hence, the correct grouping is:

i) to propose and pass laws
ii) to repeal them

Even if you thought A and E didn't have any meaning difference, E is in passive voice. Everything else remaining the same, one should prefer active voice over passive voice.

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There is growing demand in the state for “initiative and referendum,” a procedure that allows voters to propose and pass laws, as well as to repeal them.


Only choice without any parallelism error. CORRECT

either "to propose, to pass and to repeal laws" is the correct usage or "to propose, pass and repeal" is the correct usage. So this choice is also ELIMINATED.

to propose, to pass and to repeal....is the correct parallel structure. ELIMINATED

demand is growing for the procedure. Demand for a procedure will grow if there is some applicability of the procedure already. It is not possible that based on the futuristic outcome of the procedure now the demand is growing. So options which use "will" can comfortably be ELIMINATED

same error as in option D. So ELIMINATED

OPTION: A

Isn't them in option A ambiguous?

Though logically "them" refers to laws.

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Yeah, good question. I'm a pretty huge advocate for "don't use pronoun ambiguity as a primary decision point unless it's obviously ambiguous." The mere presence of multiple plural nouns doesn't make "them" ambiguous, so if you're on a mission to find pronoun ambiguity you'll over diagnose it quite a bit.

Here note that there are really two plural nouns: voters and laws. But look at the verb that acts on "them" - it's "repeal" and the subject of that is already set for that as "voters." So if "them" were to refer to "voters" it would be "voters can repeal voters" which 1) is weird and 2) because it's an action upon oneself the pronoun really should be "themselves."

The big headline for me - pronoun ambiguity shouldn't ever be your initial decision point. I have that on a list with redundancy as a handful of decision points that aren't as cut-and-dry as, say, illogical verb tenses or improper singular/plural agreement, so you shouldn't prioritize pronoun ambiguity or redundancy because you'll just see them in lots of places where they're not a problem. We talk about that in this video on the Veritas Prep YouTube Channel if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P8SQQ0gA8Y The aim there is that your greatest asset on Sentence Correction is that you get to prioritize the order in which you make decisions, and some decisions are a whole lot clearer than others.

This question is clear and simple:

When you try to make a list of 3 items, you can NEVER do "A, B, as well as C", this is never ever allowed in GMAT. You have to do "A, B, and C"

In addition, you either do "to do A, to do B, and to do C", or "to do A, do B, and do C". The second and third items must be in the same structure.

In addition to above - E has passive voice over which active voice (in option A) is desirable