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04 Dec 2013, 20:16
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The arrest of a programmer accused of violating an American digital copyright law has stirred significant opposition, against both the law itself and against the software company that had initiated the case.
(A) against both the law itself and against the software company that had
(B) against both the law itself and also the software company having
(C) against both the law itself and the software company that
(D) both against the law itself and the software company that had
(E) both against the law itself and also against the software company having
(A) against both the law itself and against the software company that had
(B) against both the law itself and also the software company having
(C) against both the law itself and the software company that
(D) both against the law itself and the software company that had
(E) both against the law itself and also against the software company having
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28 Dec 2020, 04:44
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This question is based on Parallelism and Verb forms.
The sentence contains the correlative conjunctions ‘both-and’. To maintain parallelism, each of the pair must be followed by a word of the same part of speech.
In Option A, ‘both’ is followed by the noun ‘the law’; the conjunction ‘and’ is followed by the preposition ‘against’. This option has the past perfect tense ‘had initiated’, which is incorrect as the other verb in the sentence is in the present perfect tense. Since there is an error of tense and a lack of parallelism in this option, Option A can be eliminated.
In Option B, ‘both’ is followed by the noun ‘the law’ but the conjunction ‘and’ is followed by the adverb ‘also’. The adverb is redundant in this sentence, since the conjunction ‘and’ is already present. The participle form ‘having’ is inappropriate as a verb form is required to complete the clause. So, Option B can be eliminated.
In Option D, ‘both’ is followed by the preposition ‘against’ but ‘and’ is followed by the noun ‘the software company’. Option D also contains the same error of tense as Option A. So, Option D can be eliminated.
Option E is wordy. This option also lack parallelism. In this option, ‘both’ is followed by the preposition ‘against’ but ‘and’ is followed by the adverb ‘also’. So, Option E can be eliminated.
In Option C, ‘both’ is followed by the noun ‘the law’; ‘and’ is followed by the noun ‘the software company’. The simple past tense ‘initiated’ is appropriate in the sentence as it conveys an action that took place some time in the past. Therefore, C is the most appropriate option.
Jayanthi Kumar.
