NEW HERE? LEARN MORE
closeclose
Last visit was: 26 Apr 2024, 02:02 It is currently 26 Apr 2024, 02:02
Decision Tracker
My Rewards
New posts
New comers' posts

Close
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.

Customized
for You

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History

Track
Your Progress

every week, we’ll send you an estimated GMAT score based on your performance

Practice
Pays

we will pick new questions that match your level based on your Timer History
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Go to My Error Log Learn more
Close
Request Expert Reply
Confirm Cancel

This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi

SORT BY:
Date
Kudos
 1   2   
Tags:
Find Similar Topics 
Show Tags
Hide Tags
User avatar
G
aaba
Manager
Manager
Joined: 08 Jan 2018
Posts: 169
Own Kudos [?]: 991 [36]
Given Kudos: 332
Location: United States (ID)
Schools: UC Davis '20 Anderson '20 SMU '19
GPA: 3.33
WE:Accounting (Accounting)
Send PM
GMAT ToolKit User
This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 09 Apr 2020, 23:34
4
Kudos
32
Bookmarks
00:00
A
B
C
D
E

Difficulty:

95% (hard)

Question Stats:

40% (01:43) correct 60% (01:39) wrong based on 905 sessions
Hide Show timer Statistics
This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsibility for the precipitous reduction of plastic waste in the city, declaring that their advocacy for ordinances mandating that fees be on plastic containers prevent significant amounts of litter

A mandating that fees be on plastic containers prevent
B mandating fees on plastic containers is preventing
C that mandate fees on plastic containers prevent
D to mandate fees on plastic containers are preventing
E to mandate fees on plastic containers is preventing

source: ready4gmat
ShowHide Answer
Official Answer
B

Originally posted by aaba on 14 Feb 2018, 10:46.
Last edited by Abhi077 on 09 Apr 2020, 23:34, edited 1 time in total.
Corrected the underlined portion
User avatar
G
Masterscorp
Manager
Manager
Joined: 14 Oct 2017
Posts: 192
Own Kudos [?]: 271 [0]
Given Kudos: 385
GMAT 1: 710 Q44 V41
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   14 Feb 2018, 14:15
Isn't "declaring that" a subjunctive and hence needs an infinitive?

Apparently not as neither A) or C) are correct. Can someone please elaborate?
avatar
S
harikrish
Manager
Manager
Joined: 05 Nov 2014
Posts: 79
Own Kudos [?]: 83 [0]
Given Kudos: 113
Location: India
Concentration: Strategy, Operations
Schools: Stanford '20 ISB '19 IIM-A"19
GMAT 1: 580 Q49 V21
GPA: 3.75
Send PM
Reviews Badge
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2018, 00:15
Need an explanation for eliminating C over B. Can someone help
User avatar
G
sdlife
Manager
Manager
Joined: 21 Jul 2015
Posts: 185
Own Kudos [?]: 63 [4]
Given Kudos: 489
GMAT 1: 730 Q50 V38
Send PM
Reviews Badge
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2018, 00:21
4
Kudos
harikrish wrote:
Need an explanation for eliminating C over B. Can someone help


C has a clear subject - verb agreement error.

Read C: their advocacy [Subject] for ordinances that mandate fees on plastic containers prevent [Main verb] -- it should be prevents because advocacy is singular.

Hope this helps.
User avatar
L
aragonn
Retired Moderator
Joined: 23 Sep 2015
Posts: 1267
Own Kudos [?]: 5651 [1]
Given Kudos: 416
Send PM
GMAT ToolKit User Reviews Badge
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   18 Feb 2018, 05:34
1
Kudos
Quote:
A mandating that fees be on plastic containers prevent

"that " is actually not referring to anything. even if we look for nearest noun(ordinances) it makes no sense at all.
Quote:
B mandating fees on plastic containers is preventing

no pronoun error is removed and meaning is correct.
rest of the choices are easy to remove.
User avatar
S
ManasviHP
Intern
Intern
Joined: 12 Jan 2018
Posts: 40
Own Kudos [?]: 48 [3]
Given Kudos: 36
Location: India
Concentration: General Management, Marketing
Schools: Tepper '22 (S)
GMAT 1: 680 Q49 V32
WE:Engineering (Energy and Utilities)
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   18 Feb 2018, 07:29
1
Kudos
2
Bookmarks
A mandating that fees be on plastic containers prevent - *that* is wrong here. Infinitive firm also not required.
B mandating fees on plastic containers is preventing -hold
C that mandate fees on plastic containers prevent- that is unnecessary
D to mandate fees on plastic containers are preventing - again SVA error.
E to mandate fees on plastic containers is preventing- hold
Between B and E, the infinitive form is unnecessary as it is used when we need to present the purpose or the intention of an action. This phrase is actually a shorter way of “writing” “in order to verb”. Not the case here hence B.
Hence ans is B

Please give kudos if you like the post. :)

Posted from my mobile device
avatar
B
Rickyrocks
Intern
Intern
Joined: 09 Sep 2017
Posts: 8
Own Kudos [?]: 4 [2]
Given Kudos: 276
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   18 Feb 2018, 21:31
1
Kudos
A mandating that fees be on plastic containers prevent -redundant & wordy
B mandating fees on plastic containers is preventing - correct (sva)
C that mandate fees on plastic containers prevent - incorrect sva (prevent is plural but subject advocacy is singular)
D to mandate fees on plastic containers are preventing - svae
E to mandate fees on plastic containers is preventing -- to not required
User avatar
P
chesstitans
VP
VP
Joined: 12 Dec 2016
Posts: 1030
Own Kudos [?]: 1779 [1]
Given Kudos: 2562
Location: United States
Schools: Stanford '19 Carroll '19 LBS '19
GMAT 1: 700 Q49 V33
GPA: 3.64
Send PM
GMAT ToolKit User
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   23 Feb 2018, 19:39
1
Kudos
Test takers must know that this question contains important and common pattern. B is such the pattern
User avatar
S
abhik1502
Manager
Manager
Joined: 09 Oct 2016
Posts: 129
Own Kudos [?]: 45 [1]
Given Kudos: 154
GMAT 1: 730 Q51 V38
GPA: 3.6
Send PM
Reviews Badge
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   31 May 2018, 05:06
1
Kudos
We are using "mandate" out here which is subjunctive verb. And subjunctive form comes in below form only,

Subjunctive clause+ that + S+V+O
So, out here usage of that is mandatory.
Under same option 1 should be only correct answer as that only follows this standard.
Would someone pls elaborate why we have diverted from very standard rule.
User avatar
S
lary301254M7
Manager
Manager
Joined: 28 Jan 2018
Posts: 113
Own Kudos [?]: 77 [0]
Given Kudos: 273
Location: Taiwan
GMAT 1: 690 Q47 V38
GPA: 3.34
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   05 Jun 2018, 00:42
This question is derived from an OG question:

OG16 SC134
Last week local shrimpers held a news conference to take some credit for the resurgence of the rare Kemp's ridley turtle, saying that their compliance with laws requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect adult sea turtles.

A. requiring that turtle-excluder devices be on shrimp nets protect
B. requiring turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting
C. that require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets protect
D. to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets are protecting
E. to require turtle-excluder devices on shrimp nets is protecting
User avatar
G
Masterscorp
Manager
Manager
Joined: 14 Oct 2017
Posts: 192
Own Kudos [?]: 271 [0]
Given Kudos: 385
GMAT 1: 710 Q44 V41
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   07 Jun 2018, 03:14
chesstitans wrote:
Test takers must know that this question contains important and common pattern. B is such the pattern


chesstitans


Can you please elaborate on why you think that this is such an important pattern and perhaps highlight the special structure?

Thanks in advance :-)
avatar
Rv7622
Intern
Intern
Joined: 25 May 2018
Posts: 32
Own Kudos [?]: 5 [1]
Given Kudos: 0
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2019, 02:07
1
Kudos
C has a clear SV agreement problem, ‘advocacy; is singular but ‘prevent’ is plural. ‘Fees be on’ is very awkwardly constructed. So A should not be considered. D has SV agreement problem too, ‘advocacy’ is singular ‘are’ is plural. ‘to mandate’ in E is improperly constructed, so B is the right answer.
avatar
B
jorgetomas9
Intern
Intern
Joined: 19 Aug 2018
Posts: 29
Own Kudos [?]: 7 [0]
Given Kudos: 35
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2019, 09:51
But mandating here is not a subjunctive?, I don't understand.
avatar
B
surbhi1991
Intern
Intern
Joined: 01 Nov 2018
Posts: 27
Own Kudos [?]: 8 [0]
Given Kudos: 203
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2019, 05:47
shouldn't option E be preferred over B?
As we prefer to+verb over verb-ing
User avatar
B
Raj30
Manager
Manager
Joined: 07 Jan 2019
Posts: 55
Own Kudos [?]: 78 [0]
Given Kudos: 103
Concentration: International Business, Finance
WE:Engineering (Manufacturing)
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   23 Feb 2019, 09:02
Shouldn't there be a comma after ordinances for option B to be true?
User avatar
P
DmitryFarber
Manhattan Prep Instructor
Joined: 22 Mar 2011
Posts: 2642
Own Kudos [?]: 7775 [2]
Given Kudos: 55
GMAT 2: 780  Q50  V50
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   16 Apr 2019, 14:44
1
Kudos
1
Bookmarks
Expert Reply
The phrase "mandating fees on plastic containers" is a noun modifier, so a comma would not be appropriate. (Comma + -ing typically indicates an adverbial modifier.

The meaning here is that the advocacy is preventing litter. Which advocacy? The advocacy for ordinances. Which ordinances? The ordinances mandating fees on plastic containers.

A and C get the verb wrong ("advocacy . . . prevent"). It also doesn't make much sense to say "mandate that fees be on plastic containers."
D and E suggest that the ordinances exist in order to mandate fees. It makes more sense to simply say that the ordinances *do* mandate fees. It's not something the ordinances are going to *try* to do.
avatar
B
Tushrgupta
Intern
Intern
Joined: 26 Jun 2019
Posts: 42
Own Kudos [?]: 18 [0]
Given Kudos: 29
Location: India
Concentration: Strategy, International Business
GPA: 2.7
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   02 Dec 2019, 02:39
Subject ordinance is singular prevent/are all wrong..
Left with Option B & E E is using the infinitive form but the preposition for looks up for an ing form.
User avatar
G
sasyaharry
Manager
Manager
Joined: 22 Nov 2016
Posts: 205
Own Kudos [?]: 267 [0]
Given Kudos: 50
Concentration: Leadership, Strategy
Schools: Wharton Exec '22 (A) Haas EWMBA '23 (A)
Send PM
Reviews Badge
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   03 Jan 2020, 10:02
The “Advocacy” is singular hence the only two options are B & E since they use the singular “is preventing”.
Among these two, usage of subjunctive requires you to choose B over E.
User avatar
L
Abhi077
SC Moderator
Joined: 25 Sep 2018
Posts: 1122
Own Kudos [?]: 2209 [0]
Given Kudos: 1665
Location: United States (CA)
Concentration: Finance, Strategy
Schools: Rotman '21 Jindal '21 Stern '21
GPA: 3.97
WE:Investment Banking (Investment Banking)
Send PM
GMAT ToolKit User Reviews Badge
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   07 Jan 2020, 10:28
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION


When we first read the sentence, we're confused whether the organizers' advocacy or the fees on plastic containers is what's "prevent[ing] significant amounts of litter." That confusion means that the sentence as written, choice (A), does not work.
How do we make the sentence clear, then? Let's figure out what we want to make it say first. If the community organizers want to take responsibility, or credit, for the lower amount of plastic waste, then they want to claim that "their advocacy" prevented amounts of litter. So, we need to make "prevent" the verb of "their advocacy," and only (B) and (E) match that singular subject.
The main difference between (B) and (E) is tense: (E)'s "to mandate" would mean that these fees don't yet exist, but they do because the community organizers are taking credit for some of the early effects of these fees. Choice (B)'s "mandating" correctly indicates that these fees have already been put into effect.
The correct answer is Choice (B).
avatar
fff23232020
Intern
Intern
Joined: 06 Feb 2020
Posts: 2
Own Kudos [?]: 1 [0]
Given Kudos: 3
Send PM
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink] New post   09 Apr 2020, 23:31
DmitryFarber wrote:
The phrase "mandating fees on plastic containers" is a noun modifier, so a comma would not be appropriate. (Comma + -ing typically indicates an adverbial modifier.

The meaning here is that the advocacy is preventing litter. Which advocacy? The advocacy for ordinances. Which ordinances? The ordinances mandating fees on plastic containers.

A and C get the verb wrong ("advocacy . . . prevent"). It also doesn't make much sense to say "mandate that fees be on plastic containers."
D and E suggest that the ordinances exist in order to mandate fees. It makes more sense to simply say that the ordinances *do* mandate fees. It's not something the ordinances are going to *try* to do.



i don't understand why the ordinances are not" try to do xxx". i believe they created the ordinances in order to mandate fees, that's the nature for ordinanc, which is to make people TO DO something right? I am very confused.
GMAT Club Bot
gmatclubot
Re: This year community organizers issued a press release to take responsi [#permalink]
09 Apr 2020, 23:31
 1   2   
Moderators:
GMATNinja
GMAT Club Verbal Expert
6921 posts
GMATNinjaTwo
GMAT Club Verbal Expert
238 posts

Powered by phpBB © phpBB Group | Emoji artwork provided by EmojiOne
Main navigation
GMAT Resources
Partners
MBA Resources
www.gmac.com|www.mba.com | | GMAT Club Rules | Terms and Conditions