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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them for 72 hours before doing so.

(A) to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them

(B) that would have allowed drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(C) under which drug traffickers are allowed to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(D) that would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain in imprisonment

(E) to allow the drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain imprisoned
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Hey ChandlerBong,

Out of curiosity, why is the answer E? Any response would be greatly appreciated.
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I thought, 'motion to allow..' would mean that the judge denied the motion because of the intention to allow drug traffickers...
That is incorrect meaning
It will be more appropriate to use 'that' instead of 'to' after motion.
Thats why I chose B
Is my understanding incorrect?
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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug 25 Oct 2023, 21:08
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Here goes another one:

TIP: Here instead of is incorrect, between 2 things unless replaceable use rather than (shows a sort of preference)

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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them for 72 hours before doing so.

(A) to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them

(B) that would have allowed drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(C) under which drug traffickers are allowed to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(D) that would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain in imprisonment

(E) to allow the drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain imprisoned
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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug 26 Oct 2023, 23:02
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Here goes another one:

TIP: Here instead of is incorrect, between 2 things unless replaceable use rather than (shows a sort of preference)

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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them for 72 hours before doing so.

(A) to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them

(B) that would have allowed drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(C) under which drug traffickers are allowed to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(D) that would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain in imprisonment

(E) to allow the drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain imprisoned
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Don't you think "to allow" changes the intended meaning.
Option E suggests that Judge denied the motion so that drug traffickers can apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest, and Option D suggests that Judge denied the motion which would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest.
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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug 27 Oct 2023, 00:47
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Can any of the experts please explain how we arrived at the official answer?
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Here goes another one:

TIP: Here instead of is incorrect, between 2 things unless replaceable use rather than (shows a sort of preference)

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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them for 72 hours before doing so.

(A) to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of to imprison them

(B) that would have allowed drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(C) under which drug traffickers are allowed to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest instead of imprisoning them

(D) that would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain in imprisonment

(E) to allow the drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest rather than remain imprisoned


Don't you think "to allow" changes the intended meaning.
Option E suggests that Judge denied the motion so that drug traffickers can apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest, and Option D suggests that Judge denied the motion which would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest.
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I dont think the intended meaning was to use 'To allow' to show the intent of an action (this helps in some cases but I wouldnt blindly use this as a rule, as with many things it depends on the meaning).

Here the intended meaning is not that the judge denied the motion in order to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest the intended meaning is that the Judge denied the motion allowing traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours. The 'to allow... to' is the object of the motion here.
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The old judge on the verge of retirement denied a motion to allow drug 27 Oct 2023, 21:13
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Don't you think "to allow" changes the intended meaning.
Option E suggests that Judge denied the motion so that drug traffickers can apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest, and Option D suggests that Judge denied the motion which would allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest.[/quote]

I dont think the intended meaning was to use 'To allow' to show the intent of an action (this helps in some cases but I wouldnt blindly use this as a rule, as with many things it depends on the meaning).

Here the intended meaning is not that the judge denied the motion in order to allow drug traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours of arrest the intended meaning is that the Judge denied the motion allowing traffickers to apply for bail within 24 hours. The 'to allow... to' is the object of the motion here.[/quote]


if the intended meaning is not that the judge denied the motion in order to allow drug traffickers to apply bail, we eliminate the option A and E, leaving us with option B,C, D. Then, D should be the correct answer
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One important clue here is the final piece after the underline. "Before doing so" means that whatever action we're describing in the second half has to precede some action mentioned earlier that is performed by the same person. For instance, we might say "You can go swimming, but you should rinse off before doing so," with "doing so" referring back to YOUR action of going swimming. However, we can't say "I will make my pool available for swimming, but you should rinse off before doing so," because the only actual action described before was MINE--making my pool available. There's no action of yours for "doing so" to refer back to.

In this case, the earlier action is "apply for bail." The traffickers are the ones applying, so we need to contrast this with something else the traffickers do before "doing so" [applying for bail]. For that reason, we need D or E, which give the traffickers a second verb ("remain imprisoned") rather than A-C, which attempt to provide a second verb or modifier describing what is DONE TO the traffickers ("imprisoning them").

If we dig into A-C, we might also ask who is even performing these actions. A bill or motion can ALLOW something, but can it IMPRISON someone? It makes more sense for the bill to allow one thing rather than another ("allow them to APPLY rather than REMAIN").

Also, as noted above, we don't want "instead of" for anything but nouns. If we were going to make something like A-C work, it would have to be "to allow . . . rather than to imprison."

(In other news, in a nod to the original poster, RIP Matthew Perry.)
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I see what you're saying about meaning, but in this case I think we need to read "to allow" as modifying "motion," not the judge's denial. In other words, there was a motion to do what the sentence describes, and the judge denied it. We wouldn't want to go with the other interpretation ("The judge denied a motion, and the result of this denial was to allow . . . ") because it wouldn't be clear. What motion are we talking about? Why does denying it allow these things? In the intended version, the meaning is more clear. The motion would have allowed these things, and the judge denied it, so we know the result.
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