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Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is fa [#permalink] New post   24 May 2019, 03:13
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Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is far more serious than was previously thought, property owners are being advised by authorities to test all dwellings below the third floor for radon gas and to make repairs as needed.

(A) property owners are being advised by authorities to
(B) property owners are advised by authorities that they should
(C) authorities are advising property owners to
(D) authorities are advising property owners they
(E) authorities’ advice to property owners is they should
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Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is fa [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 24 May 2019, 12:51
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The non underlined portion is a modifier that modifies our subject "Authorities" and should touch the subject

Eliminate (A), (B) & (E)

"advise" is one of the few verb that always take the infinitive instead of subjunctive ('allow', 'forbid', 'persuade', 'want' are some others)

Eliminate (D)

(E) also takes the reporting form and so 'is' must be followed by 'that'

(C) is clear and concise

IMO answer is (C)

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Originally posted by firas92 on 24 May 2019, 04:34.
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Re: Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is fa [#permalink] New post   24 May 2019, 10:02
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Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is far more serious than was previously thought, property owners are being advised by authorities to test all dwellings below the third floor for radon gas and to make repairs as needed.

(A) property owners are being advised by authorities to
(B) property owners are advised by authorities that they should
(C) authorities are advising property owners to
(D) authorities are advising property owners they
(E) authorities’ advice to property owners is they should


My approach:

the first part - prompted..... is a modifier and it can modify property owners and authorities...

We can instantly reject E because authorities'' advice is not getting prompted.

D - can be rejected because the clause - authorities are advising prop. owners and they test... are not connected properly..

A - usage of "being" is absolutely correct (used as a verb because "being" is preceded by a helping verb) but A is more of a passive structure. Same goes with B

My take C


daagh GMATNinja - please provide your inputs


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Re: Prompted by new evidence that the health risk posed by radon gas is fa [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2022, 18:04
in my opinion, B is wrong because " they should" isn't parallel with "to make"!
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