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Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce, Senator Bailey believes that the laws are still practical, on the basis that child abductions should be prevented.

(A) on the basis that child abductions should be prevented

(B) on the grounds of preventing child abductions alone

(C) solely in that child abductions should be prevented

(D) while the abductions of children should be prevented

(E) if only because abductions of children should be prevented
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   01 Sep 2018, 05:31
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Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce, Senator Bailey believes that the laws are still practical, on the basis that child abductions should be prevented.

(A) on the basis that child abductions should be prevented

(B) on the grounds of preventing child abductions alone

(C) solely in that child abductions should be prevented

(D) while the abductions of children should be prevented

(E) if only because abductions of children should be prevented


Since the non underlined portion of sentence mentions "still practical",there has to be a specific reason -which is there and is meaningful in option C.
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   01 Sep 2018, 13:01
Harshgmat wrote:
Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce, Senator Bailey believes that the laws are still practical, on the basis that child abductions should be prevented.

(A) on the basis that child abductions should be prevented

(B) on the grounds of preventing child abductions alone

(C) solely in that child abductions should be prevented

(D) while the abductions of children should be prevented

(E) if only because abductions of children should be prevented




believes that ...............................................................................in that this sounds really extraterrestrial

whats the source of the question: GmatAlliens ?
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Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   03 Sep 2018, 08:15
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Choices B, C and E change the meaning by adding the words ‘alone’, ‘solely’ and ‘if only’. These choices imply that the Senator supports the legislation for only
one reason. It is possible that there are other reasons for the Senator’s support. ‘While’ introduces a contrast. There is no contrast between the Senator’s belief
and the basis for that belief. Choice A is the correct answer.
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   20 Nov 2018, 21:39
Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce, Senator Bailey believes that the laws are still practical, on the basis that child abductions should be prevented.

(A) on the basis that child abductions should be prevented

(B) on the grounds of preventing child abductions alone

(C) solely in that child abductions should be prevented

(D) while the abductions of children should be prevented

(E) if only because abductions of children should be prevented
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Do not see how any of options except A can be the answer. They simply do not make sense.
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   21 Nov 2018, 09:18
"on the grounds of" is more correct than "on the basis that"...and because of this i opted for B ,Please clear this confusion
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   30 Nov 2021, 00:42
pranjul wrote:
"on the grounds of" is more correct than "on the basis that"...and because of this i opted for B ,Please clear this confusion


Why "on the ground of" is better then "on the basis that"
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Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   30 Nov 2021, 10:27
Helium wrote:
Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce, Senator Bailey believes that the laws are still practical, on the basis that child abductions should be prevented.

(A) on the basis that child abductions should be prevented

(B) on the grounds of preventing child abductions alone

(C) solely in that child abductions should be prevented

(D) while the abductions of children should be prevented

(E) if only because abductions of children should be prevented


I have a question, in choice A/B/C "child" is single form while "abductions" is in plural form, so is it right? I think it should be "children abductions", can anyone help to shed some light? Thx
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   30 Nov 2021, 23:59
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When we see two nouns in a row like this, the first one is usually working as an adjective, and we don't pluralize adjectives. We say "plastic forks" and "trigonometry textboooks," not "plastics forks" or "trigonometries textbooks." We'd only pluralize the first word if it were integral to the meaning. For instance, you might say "I work in the plastics industry," since the industry itself is not made of plastic; it is the industry that produces different plastics. However, "child abductions" thankfully do not have to apply to more than one child in every instance.
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Re: Although the new laws to protect children will be expensive to enforce [#permalink] New post   01 Dec 2021, 03:01
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Mavisdu1017
When we see two nouns in a row like this, the first one is usually working as an adjective, and we don't pluralize adjectives. We say "plastic forks" and "trigonometry textboooks," not "plastics forks" or "trigonometries textbooks." We'd only pluralize the first word if it were integral to the meaning. For instance, you might say "I work in the plastics industry," since the industry itself is not made of plastic; it is the industry that produces different plastics. However, "child abductions" thankfully do not have to apply to more than one child in every instance.


honor to get an expert response. It's clear and much thx!
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