Bunuel wrote:
The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available apart from fishing.
Solution - This seems to be a classic case of Parallelism error between 'enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available'. enforcement' is a noun whereas 'recreational' is an adjective.
(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being availableOption A is incorrect due to parallelism error.
(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities '
both on the' incorrect usage. Correct usage should be '
on both the ... of X and Y' Drop Option B.
(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities Correct idiom is used both X and Y. Parallelism in correct, nouns used in both cases/parts. Option C is correct. (D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities Trap Option.
The enforcement of recreational activities does not make sense here.
The whole sentence could be incorrectly read is the following way - The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends
on both the ...
being available apart from fishing.
Here, one might think '
on both and
being available' are supposed to be together and this has been modified in Option D as 'on the enforcement of both' instead of 'on both the enforcement of'. However, this is not the case.
Drop Option D.
(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities Idiomatic error. Correct idiom is
both X and Y. Drop Option E.
_________________
Your critical analysis of this post is appreciated.
All the best for your prep and applications!