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18 Apr 2012, 07:01
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290. 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 Please explain your answers. Also, is 'allocated for' not idiomatic? A: Proposed.... to... and to.... ..CORRECT B: reduction from previous year.... reduction should be wrt money...WRONG C: reduce the amount from previous year or reduce the amount by some percent to make to an amount...WRONG D: has proposed.... it was allocating... maintaining... no PARALLELISM .. WRONG E: was proposing...this is supposed to be the statement...nothing in past.. WRONG _________________ Regards, Harsha Note: Give me kudos if my approach is right , else help me understand where i am missing.. I want to bell the GMAT Cat Satyameva Jayate - Truth alone triumphs Manager Status: Married Joined: 30 Oct 2010 Posts: 65 Location: India Concentration: Marketing, Finance GMAT 1: 710 Q49 V38 GPA: 2.9 WE: Information Technology (Computer Software) Followers: 2 Kudos [?]: 15 [0], given: 40 Re: Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink]

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18 Apr 2012, 12:58
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i choose A

it just sounds right

cant the mods/gods evaluate and insert an official answer in cases its not provided.?
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23 May 2013, 00:28
I agree with answer choice A(love gurpreetsingh's explanation)......but csn someone tell me why .....'nearly 17% reduction' is not wtrong....'nearly' is an adver that should modify a verb....which verb is it modifying here????

Hi Upasana,

here it modifies the adjective 17 percent
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06 Dec 2014, 02:37
Hi All,

I am confused with the usage of reduction in choice A. Can some one explain why it is correct?
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city’s mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction
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Re: Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink] ### Show Tags 07 Dec 2014, 20:34 eyunni wrote: 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

Choice A Maintains its parallelism with "to maintain" and "to subsidize". Seems great.

Choice B "To maintain..." and "for subsidizing" isn't parallel

Choice C "The maintenance"... and "to subsidize" isn't parallel

Choice D "for maintaining..." and "to subsidize" isn't parallel
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Re: Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink] ### Show Tags 04 May 2015, 21:31 eyunni wrote: 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

this question is in old og but good to study

realizing the grammatical role of each phrase is key to sc section.

"from the previous year" have no fuction in the sentence, so , we can eliminate b,c d, and e quickly for only this error.

A is left.

this question is typical of gmat. the sentence is long and make us uncomfortable. but if we focus on grammartical roles , the problem is simple
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05 May 2015, 07:00
(a) has correct parallelism.
the words that APPEAR parallel in (c) are not words that are supposed to be parallel in the first place, so that "decoy parallelism" is irrelevant.

if you are interpreting “reduce” and “maintain” as parallel elements, then that means you aren't thinking about the meaning of the sentence.

not considering the meaning of sentences in SC is a huge, huge mistake, since so many things (parallel elements, usage of modifiers, verb tenses, etc.) necessarily flow from the meaning of the sentence! if you don't consider what the sentence means -- i.e., if you simply analyze it from the standpoint of grammar alone -- then you are shutting yourself out of reliably being able to find any of these mistakes.
when you read the prompt of an SC problem, READ FOR MEANING FIRST!
don't worry about being able to pick out mistakes in the prompt -- you'll find the mistakes when you compare the answer choices to each other.
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12 Aug 2016, 09:46
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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 Maintains the parallelism ----- to maintain AND to subsidize Well constructed and every word is placed in right order so no modification issue in this part ---- “A nearly 17% reduction in the amount allocated the previous year” (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 parallelism issue ---- for the maintenance 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 _________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- Target - 720-740 http://gmatclub.com/forum/information-on-new-gmat-esr-report-beta-221111.html http://gmatclub.com/forum/list-of-one-year-full-time-mba-programs-222103.html Intern Joined: 16 Jun 2016 Posts: 28 Concentration: Accounting GMAT 1: 640 Q51 V24 GMAT 2: 730 Q51 V37 Followers: 1 Kudos [?]: 6 [0], given: 43 Re: Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink]

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02 Oct 2016, 10:12
According to Manhattan SC guide, the bossy verb propose takes only the command subjunctive form and follows subjunctive construction:
bossy verb + that + subject + command subjunctive

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02 Oct 2016, 12:32
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sachin0890 wrote:
According to Manhattan SC guide, the bossy verb propose takes only the command subjunctive form and follows subjunctive construction:
bossy verb + that + subject + command subjunctive

Thank you

The concept you mentioned is applicable when one is using a clause as an object of the bossy verb - one may as well use a noun as the direct object of a bossy verb.

I propose that the price be reduced. (subjunctive - object is a clause)
I propose a reduction in price. (object is a noun)
I demand that you arrive punctually. (subjunctive - object is a clause)
I demand your punctual arrival. (object is a noun)

All the above examples are alright.

Oh! I didn't know that. Thank you for the explanation.
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Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink] ### Show Tags 28 Feb 2017, 09:20 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.

Issue: Parallelism | Construction

Analysis:
1. The non-underlined portion of the sentence shows that the mayor was faced with the budget gap and that gap prompted him to propose a reduction. These two actions should be parallel. The temporal relationship is implied here by the construction, "Faced with ... budget gap, the mayor proposed..."
2. In the underlined portion of the sentence, the reduction is in the amount allocated to maintain ... and to subsidize... The two allocation actions should be parallel.

Faced with budget gap ---> the mayor proposed a reduction in budget
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allocated_____________
/                      \
to maintain...   (and)    to subsidize...

(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
- "reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount" - is wordy.
- "to maintain" and "for subsidizing" - parallelism issue

(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
- "for the maintenance" and "to subsidize" - parallelism issue

(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
- "has proposed" - changes meaning
- "for maintaining" and "to subsidize" - parallelism issue

(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
- "was proposing" - changes meaning
- "maintaining" and "subsidization" - parallelism issue

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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 --> correct. (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 _________________ Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one - Bruce Lee Intern Joined: 14 Sep 2012 Posts: 12 Location: United States Concentration: Technology, Entrepreneurship GMAT 1: 650 Q50 V28 GPA: 3.2 WE: Engineering (Telecommunications) Followers: 0 Kudos [?]: 1 [0], given: 19 Re: Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink]

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15 May 2017, 19:15
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 Meaning analysis: city - propose - plan - to maintain - and - to subsidize >>> we need to keep parallelism to maintain and to subsidize or for maintaining and for subsidizing Extra-note: Propose X to do Y propose that SVO (subjunctive mode) >>> propose that the amount they were allocating be reduced: this part is correct Intern Joined: 19 Aug 2015 Posts: 34 Location: India GMAT 1: 650 Q49 V30 Followers: 0 Kudos [?]: 1 [0], given: 24 Re: Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap, the citys [#permalink]

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23 May 2017, 04:30
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 correct (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 Re: Faced with an estimated$2 billion budget gap, the citys   [#permalink] 23 May 2017, 04:30

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