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Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.
(A) proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(B) proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and for subsidizing
(C) proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions, and to subsidize
(E) was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions and for the subsidization
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(A) proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(B) proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions and for subsidizing
(C) proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city’s major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions, and to subsidize
(E) was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city’s major cultural institutions and for the subsidization
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https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/06/arts/the-arts-are-again-invited-to-the-budget-dance.html
This time, in the face of an estimated $2.75 billion city budget gap over the next year and a half, the Mayor has proposed a reduction of nearly 17 percent from last year in the amount spent to maintain New York's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups. The preliminary budget announced by the Mayor last week sought about $65 million for the major groups and $7 million for the smaller ones for those purposes in the fiscal year 1997, which begins July 1, compared with $84 million in the current budget. Other cultural appropriations bring the total to $98.1 million.
This time, in the face of an estimated $2.75 billion city budget gap over the next year and a half, the Mayor has proposed a reduction of nearly 17 percent from last year in the amount spent to maintain New York's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups. The preliminary budget announced by the Mayor last week sought about $65 million for the major groups and $7 million for the smaller ones for those purposes in the fiscal year 1997, which begins July 1, compared with $84 million in the current budget. Other cultural appropriations bring the total to $98.1 million.
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This is one of my favorite, nasty GMAT parallelism questions. We discussed it in last Wednesday’s verbal chat (Vyshak ’s always-awesome transcript is available here), but it’s worth repeating this one for a QOTD, since it really gets into the meat of what parallelism really is.
So we have: “… the city’s mayor proposed a… reduction in the amount allocated the previous year…
And that makes sense. Let’s keep (A).
Plus, we have a pronoun issue. “It” needs to refer to a singular noun, and the closest singular is "year" -- and that doesn't make sense. So what about the next-closest singular noun? Well, that's "reduction" -- and that doesn't make sense, either.
If we keep going, we'll eventually see “city’s", and now we're on murky ground. Is it an absolute rule that a non-possessive pronoun ("it") can NEVER refer back to a possessive noun ("city's")? No. (Full disclosure: I've changed my tune on this, and overstated things in this old YouTube webinar on GMAT pronouns -- oops.
) The real issue is that the pronoun is awfully confusing: the possessive ("city's") isn't the most obvious place to look, and it's always a long way from the pronoun. The pronoun might not be WRONG, exactly, but it's not awesome.
Notice that (A) avoids the pronoun altogether. That's much nicer. Since (A) gives us a clearly superior alternative, (B) is out.
But wait: that really doesn’t work. “Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed…
Nope, that can’t be right. Look at #2 again: “Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed… to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.” No, s/he probably didn’t. It’s grammatically parallel, but it’s also illogical. As we said in our long-winded Beginner’s Guide to SC, meaning can be pretty darned important. (C) is gone.
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Something has to be parallel to the phrase “to subsidize”, since that’s what follows the parallelism trigger “and.” We really only have one candidate: “to maintain.”
So we have: “… the city’s mayor proposed a… reduction in the amount allocated the previous year…
- 1) to maintain the city’s major cultural institutions
and 2) to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups
And that makes sense. Let’s keep (A).
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I don’t like the parallelism as much here. The phrase “for subsidizing” follows the parallelism trigger “and”, and I’m not sure what’s parallel to “for subsidizing.” I guess “to maintain”? They’re both prepositional phrases, but the parallelism seems much better in (A).
Plus, we have a pronoun issue. “It” needs to refer to a singular noun, and the closest singular is "year" -- and that doesn't make sense. So what about the next-closest singular noun? Well, that's "reduction" -- and that doesn't make sense, either.
If we keep going, we'll eventually see “city’s", and now we're on murky ground. Is it an absolute rule that a non-possessive pronoun ("it") can NEVER refer back to a possessive noun ("city's")? No. (Full disclosure: I've changed my tune on this, and overstated things in this old YouTube webinar on GMAT pronouns -- oops.
) The real issue is that the pronoun is awfully confusing: the possessive ("city's") isn't the most obvious place to look, and it's always a long way from the pronoun. The pronoun might not be WRONG, exactly, but it's not awesome.Notice that (A) avoids the pronoun altogether. That's much nicer. Since (A) gives us a clearly superior alternative, (B) is out.
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This looks parallel, right? “To subsidize” is parallel with “to reduce.” That sounds fine.
But wait: that really doesn’t work. “Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed…
- 1) to reduce… the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city’s major cultural institutions
and 2) to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups
Nope, that can’t be right. Look at #2 again: “Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city’s mayor proposed… to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.” No, s/he probably didn’t. It’s grammatically parallel, but it’s also illogical. As we said in our long-winded Beginner’s Guide to SC, meaning can be pretty darned important. (C) is gone.
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(D) has the same pronoun problem as (B). And “to subsidize” isn’t really parallel to anything at all. (D) can be eliminated.
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“They” has no antecedent, and “for the subsidization” is awfully messy. (E) is out, and (A) is the last answer standing.
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The catch is between A and C.
A is correct but the reason why C is wrong is that C changes the intended meaning.
1. Use of 'from' is wrong
2. If proposed to reduce....to subsidize are considered parallel, then it means that the mayor is proposing two things- reduce the amount for maintenance and subsidize the local arts group.
Subsidizing will actually increase the budget gap. Thus it can not be the intended meaning,
Even I marked it C while practicing. But A is correct.
A is correct but the reason why C is wrong is that C changes the intended meaning.
1. Use of 'from' is wrong
2. If proposed to reduce....to subsidize are considered parallel, then it means that the mayor is proposing two things- reduce the amount for maintenance and subsidize the local arts group.
Subsidizing will actually increase the budget gap. Thus it can not be the intended meaning,
Even I marked it C while practicing. But A is correct. 
