The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response

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2) The three elements that will be increased need to be in parallel. The first two, “police databases” and “funding for neighborhood watch groups” are before the underline section. The third element, ” programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth,” has to have the word “and” in front of it because it’s the last element on the list. Also, the action of decreasing has to be separate from this list. Choices (A) & (B) treat the action of decreasing as another element on the list, which is incorrect. Choices (D) & (E) introduce a separate verb for the third element on the list, disrupting the parallelism. Only (C) gets all of this correct.

BTW, notice: to show purpose, the construction “programs for rehabilitating” is awkward — this is what (A) & (D) have. What we need is the infinitive of purpose, “programs to rehabilitate.”

For all these reasons, (C) is the only possible answer.

For the post of the other member, I do not know about his assumption.

MAGOOSH Official Explanation:

The three elements that will be increased need to be in parallel. The first two, "police databases" and "funding for neighborhood watch groups" are before the underline section. The third element, "programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth," has to have the word "and" in front of it because it's the last element on the list. Also, the action of decreasing has to be separate from this list. Choices (A) & (B) treat the action of decreasing as another element on the list, which is incorrect. Choices (D) & (E) introduce a separate verb for the third element on the list, disrupting the parallelism. Only (C) gets all of this correct.

BTW, notice: to show purpose, the construction "programs for rehabilitating" is awkward --- this is what (A) & (D) have. What we need is the infinitive of purpose, "programs to rehabilitate."

For all these reasons, (C) is the only possible answer.

Read this sentence in Captain Holt's voice, made me understand it better lol.

The verb "decease" is not parallel with the nouns ...i.e. the structure Increase (verb) Noun, Noun, Noun, and decrease (verb) includes "decrease" in the list.

We need to close this off by the following structure:
Increase {start list 1: noun, noun, and noun}, and decrease {start list 2...}
Only (C) and (E) have this structure.

(C) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, while decreasing
(E) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased, while decreasing

(E) repeats "increase" and reads as follows: "increase programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased" -- this is nonsensical- ->Eliminate.

(C) is correct

Can anyone explains the use of decreasing is correct instead of full verb decrease?

Hello, tryingtoberich. (I like the amusing name.) The answer to your question is based on the five answer choices presented. To be clear, and decrease would be parallel with the infinitive increase from earlier in the sentence, but we would need a sentence that resembled the following:

The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response to the Alkaline Scandal, would increase police databases, funding for neighborhood watch groups, and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, and [would] decrease the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

The first three items in the list are understood to increase, so, in order to separate the third item in that list from the decrease that will follow, we need an and to introduce that final item. Otherwise, we anticipate a fourth item that will increase as well, and the sentence proves confusing to read—i.e. would increase A, B, C, and decrease D. Since no answer choices with and [would] decrease place the crucial (list-ending) and in the correct place, we do not even need to worry about the decrease/decreasing split.

I hope that helps. If you have further questions, feel free to ask. Good luck with your studies.

- Andrew

The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response to the Alkaline Scandal, would increase police databases, funding for neighborhood watch groups, programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

The new crime legislation would increase:
- police databases
- funding for neighborhood watch groups
- AND programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth

while decreasing the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

We need the 'and' before 'programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth'.

Answer is C.

(A) programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease
(B) programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, and decrease
(C) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, while decreasing
(D) increase programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and would decrease
(E) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased, while decreasing

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