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Re: Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   31 Dec 2021, 12:35
In the correct option A:

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.

Here the objects of the || verbs "permits" and "allow" : compensating and claims respectively don't seem to be in ||.

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Re: Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2022, 08:31
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abhishekmayank wrote:
In the correct option A:

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.

Here the objects of the || verbs "permits" and "allow" : compensating and claims respectively don't seem to be in ||.

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"-ing" words can function as good old-fashioned nouns. For instance, Tim can enjoy chocolate and swimming. (Just not usually at the same time.) Both "chocolate" and "swimming" are nouns here, and that's fine.

Same deal in (A). "Compensating" and "claims" both function as nouns, so they're parallel.

For more on "-ing" words, check out this article.

I hope that helps!
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Re: Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   10 Jan 2022, 05:54
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abhishekmayank wrote:
In the correct option A:

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.

Here the objects of the || verbs "permits" and "allow" : compensating and claims respectively don't seem to be in ||.

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Hello abhishekmayank,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, in this context "compensating" is a present participle ("verb+ing") that functions as a noun; such present participles are known as gerunds.

We hope this helps.
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Re: Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2022, 07:51
Thanks GMATNinja and ExpertsGlobal5 for the explanation !!
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Re: Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   17 Jun 2023, 22:32
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I think this tests prepositional //ism. ‘For injury to’ people in the non-underlined part should be matched by a corresponding ‘for damage to’ in the underlined portion. Note that only A keeps such a prepositional //ism perfectly; hence that is the correct choice. Because all other choices foul this basic tenet, I would confidently dump them and go to the next.


Also i think permit followed by giving is sounding redundant. Both have similar meaning.
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Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   18 Oct 2023, 07:09
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.

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(A) compensating state governments for damage to - "compensating" - Gerund acting as a Noun is parallel to "claims" - Noun. Compensating....for damage to is parallel to claims for injury to. Ok.

(B) compensating state governments for the damaging of - breaks parallelism and conveys a wired meaning as if governments are paid for damaging their natural resources instead of damage to their natural resources, which is the intended meaning. Wrong.

(C) giving state governments compensation for damaging - "giving" and "compensation" - redundant. "for damaging" same issues.

(D) giving compensation to state governments for the damage of - "giving" and "compensation" - redundant.

(E) the giving of compensation to state governments for damaging - "giving" and "compensation" - redundant. "for damaging" same issues.
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Re: Federal legislation establishing a fund for the cleanup of sites damag [#permalink] New post   07 Jan 2024, 23:12
AjiteshArun MartyMurray DmitryFarber I am not able to eliminate any options on solid grounds can you guys please explain ?
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