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One is expected to abide and respect the law of one's country.

A. abide and respect the law of one's

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The verb abide requires another preposition in order to correctly connect to the law. You cannot abide the law - you can abide by the law.

Whenever the first verb requires a preposition after it and the second verb does not the preposition must not be omitted:

Incorrect: John cares and loves Jane.
Correct: John cares for and loves Jane.

What helps us identify this question as a Split Construction question and identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

A split construction: Verb A + and/or + Verb B + object


B. abide by and respect the law of their

Although this answer choice corrects the original Preposition mistake by adding the preposition by after abide, it is still grammatically incorrect: the pronoun their refers to one but does not agree with it as one is singular and their is plural.

The pronoun one agrees with itself only.

What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it


C. abide by and respect the law of his

Although this answer choice corrects the original Preposition mistake by adding the preposition by after abide, it is still grammatically incorrect. The pronoun his can refer to human male nouns, but there's no such noun in the sentence.

The pronoun one agrees with itself only.

What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it


D. respect and abide by the law of one's

The verb abide requires another preposition in order to correctly connect to the law. This answer choice solves this error by adding the preposition by.


E. have respect for and abide by the law of one's

Although this answer choice corrects the original Preposition mistake by adding the preposition by after abide, it is still stylistically flawed as it uses the unnecessarily long phrase have respect for instead of the more concise respect.
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Initial Analysis - THe right phrasing/idiom is Abide by.
and Have respoect for.

A. abide and respect the law of one's
REJECTED - It has to be 'abide by' - not 'abide' and not 'abide for'

B. abide by and respect the law of their
REJECTED - Since 'One is' is used, it cannot be 'their'

C. abide by and respect the law of his
REJECTED - Since the sentence begins with 'One is', it cannot swithc to second person and use 'his'.
Also, 'One' is gender agnostic, so why not 'her' ?

D. respect and abide by the law of one's
REJECTED - The phrasing has to be 'respect for' and 'abide by'.

E. have respect for and abide by the law of one's
RIGHT ANSWER - THe phrasing has been completed - and it is right.

A. abide and respect the law of one's.................'abide by' should be used. 'abide' simply means tolerate. The intention is to obey the law not to tolerate the law.

B. abide by and respect the law of their..............We need 'one's' as the sunbject is 'one'

C. abide by and respect the law of his............We need 'one's' not his/her/their etc.

D. respect and abide by the law of one's.............Looks fine

E. have respect for and abide by the law of one's............................Meaning change

IMO OA should be D

(E) is correct IMO



A. "Abide by" is the correct idiom

B. Pronoun "Their" do not agree in number with singular subject "one"

C. Pronoun his has not referent noun

D. One is expected to respect the law of one's country and to abide by the law of one's country
Parallelism is lost because of missing preposition

E. One is expected to have respect for the law of one's country and to abide by the law of one's country
Correct

Since the subject of the given sentence is One, any possessive form of that subject must be one's. In other words, the arbitrary use of the possessive adjectives their and his would not be considered acceptable in the GMAT. This means that you can discard B and C.

The verb in A, to abide means to tolerate, to bear, as in the sentence Some people can't abide the smell of garlic. But it makes little sense to say that One is expected to tolerate and respect a law: how, indeed, does one tolerate a law? What is needed here is a synonym for the other verb in the sentence, respect. So you can now discard A.

Both D and E use abide by, which means, more or less, obey. This makes sense. One might well abide by a law. A democratic government must abide by the terms of a constitution.

E, however, introduces a change of meaning. One can have respect for a person or for laws, but this is simply a feeling. One might feel that a law is powerful or beneficial, and so feel respect for it. But this is not what the sentence is getting at. We want a verb to match and reinforce abide by. This verb is simply to respect, which means to submit to or obey So you can discard E.

D is the only remaining option. Here, you have a succinct and meaningful statment: one must both respect (i.e. submit to) and abide by (i.e. obey) the law of one's country. This is therefore the correct answer.

IMO answer is D

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One is expected to abide and respect the law of one's country.

A. abide and respect the law of one's -> missing preposition. Incorrect.
B. abide by and respect the law of their -> their is incorrect.
C. abide by and respect the law of his -> his is incorrect.
D. respect and abide by the law of one's -> respect for is missing. Incorrect.
E. have respect for and abide by the law of one's -> This is better.

So, I think E.

One is expected to

abide (the law of one's country)

and

respect the law of one's country.

Possessive form of the subject 'One' is "One's"( they --> their, he --> his).
"abide by" is a phrasal verb meaning (2 or more word together form a different meaning than what each of those words individually put together mean. Example: take off, lock down on).
abide by means, to follow a rule.
abide means tolerate/accept( here the intend is, we are not tolerating the law though, but following the law).
by means so as to go past.
respect - to submit to.

It could have been better with:
One is expected to respect and then follow the law of one's country.( meaning, we respect and then follow something).
=> One is expected to respect and abide by the law of one's country.


A. abide and respect the law of one's
Idiomatic expression 'abide by' correctly presents the intended meaning of the sentence.


B. abide by and respect the law of their
possessive form error, One's is the correct usage.


C. abide by and respect the law of his
possessive form error, One's is the correct usage.

D. respect and abide by the law of one's
This is correct as per the analysis. Correct answer choice is D.

E. have respect for and abide by the law of one's
'have respect for' means **feeling** respectful and here changes the meaning of the sentence here. Eliminate.

One is expected to abide and respect the law of one's country.

A. abide and respect the law of one's
B. abide by and respect the law of their
C. abide by and respect the law of his
D. respect and abide by the law of one's
E. have respect for and abide by the law of one's

If we use the indefinite pronoun “one”, we should use “one’s” for its possessive case.
Eliminate all options that break this rule- B and C.

“Abide by” is the correct idiom. One is expected to abide by the law and not abide the law.
Eliminate A.

One is expected to DO two things- " to respect laws" and "to abide by the laws". Both the items therefore must be verbs and must be parallel.
Eliminate E.

Option D is correct.
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