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The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.
A. by the officers being satisfied, to hold
B. by the officers satisfaction, hold
C. with the officers' being satisfied, holding
D. to the officers' satisfaction, hold
E. to the officers' satisfaction, holding
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Originally posted by globaldesi on 29 Feb 2020, 04:41.
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2020, 05:01
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i think C, d and e are out for parallelism reason. Between "A" and "b" - B is the correct answer.
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2020, 06:27
clearly C, D and E are ruled out as per parallelism .

IMO in between A and B - "officers satisfaction" doesn't sound grammatically correct.
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2020, 06:49
globaldesi wrote:
The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.
A. by the officers being satisfied, to hold
B. by the officers satisfaction, hold
C. with the officers' being satisfied, holding
D. to the "ficers' satisfaction, holy
E. to the officers' satisfaction, holding


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Is option D. to the "ficers' satisfaction, holy correctly typed?
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2020, 06:58
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The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.
A. by the officers being satisfied, to hold
B. by the officers satisfaction, hold
C. with the officers' being satisfied, holding
D. to the "ficers' satisfaction, holy
E. to the officers' satisfaction, holding


"conclude by" is incorrect in A and B. We need a noun who actually concludes to go with "by"; "officers satisfaction" can not conclude anything on its own.

we need "hold" at the end for parallelism so C and E are out.

Only D remains, it should be "hold" at the end and I don't know whether "ficers' is a valid alternative to officers' nonetheless, I feel D should be the answer.
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2020, 07:29
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globaldesi wrote:
The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.
A. by the officers being satisfied, to hold
B. by the officers satisfaction, hold
C. with the officers' being satisfied, holding
D. to the "ficers' satisfaction, holy
E. to the officers' satisfaction, holding


"conclude by" is incorrect in A and B. We need a noun who actually concludes to go with "by"; "officers satisfaction" can not conclude anything on its own.

we need "hold" at the end for parallelism so C and E are out.

Only D remains, it should be "hold" at the end and I don't know whether "ficers' is a valid alternative to officers' nonetheless, I feel D should be the answer.

apologies for mistype.Corrected the option now
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The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 01 Mar 2020, 04:58
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The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.
A. by the officers being satisfied, to hold
B. by the officers satisfaction, hold
C. with the officers' being satisfied, holding
D. to the officers' satisfaction, hold
E. to the officers' satisfaction, holding


The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.

Instead of to hold, there should be just hold hold to make the list parallel.

A, C & E is out

Between B and D, B doesn't have apostrophe over officers. Hence D is the correct answer

Originally posted by ajaygaur319 on 29 Feb 2020, 10:01.
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2020, 23:38
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Conclude to is idiomatic, and to retain parallelism the last verb should be in simple present tense i.e hold, hence d

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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   02 Mar 2020, 11:33
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(D) This question tests idioms and parallelism. This sentence presents a list of activities that are permitted by the new laws. Parallelism dictates that these activities must be in the same grammatical form: Officers are allowed to 'single out suspicious-looking men and women, enact brief searches of their belongings, and... hold the suspects for questioning.'
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Re: The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out [#permalink] New post   20 Mar 2020, 08:20
globaldesi wrote:
The new terrorism-prevention laws enable police officers to single out suspicious-looking men and women, exact brief searches of their belongings, and, if such searches do not conclude by the officers being satisfied, to hold the suspects for questioning.
A. by the officers being satisfied, to hold
B. by the officers satisfaction, hold
C. with the officers' being satisfied, holding
D. to the officers' satisfaction, hold
E. to the officers' satisfaction, holding


In this sentence since there are three actions that the new law enables officers to do, these three actions have to be grammatically & logically parallel.
Since there is an infinitive to single out in first, either we need a choice that has infinitives in all 3 actions or only in the first one. Based on this, we can easily eliminate options A, C & E (A for using infinitive in 2 and not 3 actions, C & E for using -ing to describe third).
In B even if we ignore the correct idiom, it still has an error in Officers which is a plural. Here we require a possessive which we can find in option D.

Therefore, D is the best choice based on all requirements.
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