The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends

Question

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends  on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available  apart from fishing.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities

(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities

ramlala · Answer

IMO D

Sumi1010 · Answer

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends on both  the enforcement  of regulations and  recreational activities  being available apart from fishing.

The correct construction :  Both X and Y  ; X and Y should be parallel and comparable.

Note  : 
enforce = to make people obey a law or rule .

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available
  the enforcement  (action noun) is not parallel with  activities  (noun).  
(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities
 Violation of the structure  Both X and Y   
(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities
 Correct. The enforcement || the availability  
(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities
 Meaning change - Recreation activities can't be enforced. If some activity is enforced, it can't be considered recreational. 
(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities
 Violation of the structure  Both X and Y

C

zhanbo · Answer

My answer is  (C) . It took me 01:37.

I am pretty sure that (B) is meant to be: both on the enforcement of regulations   and   on recreational activities. Otherwise, (B) is too easy to rule out.

(A) In "both X and Y", it is critical to maintain the parallelism between X and Y. In this option, "the enforcement of regulations " and "recreational activities being available" are not strictly parallel. In addition, if we can remove "being" in "being available" and still maintain the same meaning, we should get rid of "being" for the sake of efficiency.

(B) As written, it is super easy to rule out as it lacks "and" to pair with "both". By adding the missing "and", however, we have:
... both on the enforcement of regulations and on recreational activities...
This version is much better, but in comparison with option (C), we determine that (C) has better parallelism and clearer meaning.

(D) "Enforcement of recreational activities" does not make sense.

(E) We need "both ... and" as opposed to "both ... in combination with".

sudeshpatodiya · Answer

The structure is - The survival of X depends on  both  A and B apart from fishing.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available  Incorrect. Use of passive is not correct.

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities -  Incorrect. Changes the meaning by saying Both on A on B

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities -  Correct. Goes with the structure discussed

(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities -  Incorrect. Change in meaning. Now the sentence mean the survival depends on enforcement of regulations and recreational activities and not on availability of recreational activities

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities -  Incorrect. We don't need in combination with when we can simply do this by using and

(C)

TarunKumar1234 · Answer

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available apart from fishing.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available

---the enforcement of regulations, recreational activities being available not parallel

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities

--- Idiomatic problem: 'and' is missing.

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities

--- Idiom is in correct place. Both the items in list are also parallel.

(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities

--- Although idiom is used correctly here, the meaning seems distorted as recreational activities are paired with 'enforced', which we cannot determine is correct .

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities

---(Both - and ) is the correct idiomatic usage. Here (Both - in combination with ) is used.

ranjan1 · Answer

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends  on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available  apart from fishing.

Error Analysis:- Original sentence has parallelism issue. Plus, Usage of being seems to be wrong.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available
Incorrect. As explained above.

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities
Incorrect. With "both" we need to have two elements linked. Plus, it is also changing the intended meaning.

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities
 Correct.
 
(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities
Incorrect. Changes the intended meaning.  We can't enforce recreational activities rather their availability

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities
Incorrect. "both" and "in combination with" is redundant.

IMO C.

DisciplinedPrep · Answer

ramlala  - Answer choice D is clearly incorrect because it conveys a nonsensical meaning. Please note that the sentence is grammatically correct, but it has a meaning issue. The survival depends on two things: enforcement of regulations and two availability of recreational activities. Answer choice D conveys a nonsensical meaning that survival depends on two things: enforcement of regulations and enforcement of recreational activities. Enforce recreational activities? Nah!

winterschool · Answer

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available apart from fishing.

(A) on both  the enforcement of  regulations and  recreational activities  being available  Incorrect

parallelism error - ...........both the enforcement of ..........and recreational activities ..........

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations  on recreational activities   Incorrect

correct idioms - .........both...............and ..................

(C)  on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities   Correct

(D) on  the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities   Incorrect

changes meaning

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations  in combination with  available recreational activities  Incorrect

correct idioms - .........both...............and ..................

jhavyom · Answer

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends  on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available  apart from fishing.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available
'the enforcement of regulations' and 'recreational activities being available' are not parallel.

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities
Parallel marker 'both X' should be followed by 'and Y'.
Incorrect

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities
Correct

(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities
The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends on
i. the enforcement of regulations
ii. the enforcement of recreational activities.
the enforcement of recreational activities conveys a wrong meaning.

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities 
Parallel marker 'both X' should be followed by 'and Y'.
Incorrect

jessiemjx · Answer

IMO C

warrior1991 · Answer

Both the X and Y X:- The enforcement of regulations Y:-Recreational activities Incorrect Parallelism.Eliminate Both the X and Y X:- On the enforcement of regulations Y:-Recreational activities Incorrect Parallelism. Also, here we have meaning issue. One is saying enforcement of regulations so other should be also somewhat like this. Eliminate This is correct . X and Y are structurally and logically parallel. Both X and Y. Here X and Y are parallel but the meaning is changed. The sentence is not saying "enforcement of recreational activities". Option C on the other hand clearly mentions "enforcement of regulations" and "availability of recreational activities". Option C is better choice. Structurally parallel :-

Logically parallel:-

Eliminate Structure is both X and Y. Not both in combination with. Eliminate

shikhasing4 · Answer

The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available apart from fishing.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available - incorrect usage of being

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities - incorrect as changes meaning

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities -  correct- because uses the right idiom both X and Y where X and Y are both logically and grammatically parallel
 
(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities - the sentence is incorrect because parallelism error

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities - incorrect usage of  in combination with

RajatJ79 · Answer

Solution  - This seems to be a classic case of Parallelism error between 'enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available'. enforcement' is a noun whereas 'recreational' is an adjective.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available 
Option A is incorrect due to parallelism error.

(B) both on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities  
' both on the ' incorrect usage. Correct usage should be ' on both the ... of X and Y ' Drop Option B.

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities  
 Correct idiom is used  both X and Y . Parallelism in correct, nouns used in both cases/parts. Option C is correct.

(D) on the enforcement of both regulations and recreational activities  
Trap Option.  The enforcement of recreational activities  does not make sense here.
The whole sentence could be incorrectly read is the following way - The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends  on both  the ...  being available  apart from fishing.
Here, one might think ' on both  and  being available ' are supposed to be together and this has been modified in Option D as 'on the enforcement of both' instead of 'on both the enforcement of'. However, this is not the case. 
Drop Option D.

(E) on both the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities  
Idiomatic error. Correct idiom is  both X and Y . Drop Option E.

HoneyLemon · Answer

imo ,  C 
The survival of many endangered species of fish in our rivers depends  on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities being available  apart from fishing.

(A) on both the enforcement of regulations and recreational activities  being  available
'the enforcement of regulations' and 'recreational activities being available' are not parallel.
not correct use of being

(B) both  on the enforcement of regulations on recreational activities 
Incorrect meaning 
both and .. not present ..

(C) on both the enforcement of regulations and the availability of recreational activities
 seems Correct
 
(D) on the enforcement of both  regulations and recreational activities 
Change in meaning meaning.

(E) on  both  the enforcement of regulations in combination with available recreational activities 
Parallel marker 'both X' should be followed by 'and Y'.
Incorrect

penco · Answer

There is issue with parallelism here. The correct idiom is :  Both X and Y.  ,  X and Y should follow parallel structure.

Based on above reasoning, Correct answer,imo,  C

ramlala · Answer

DisciplinedPrep 
Thank you for highlighting my error. I overlooked meaning while cheking for grammer.

Bunuel · Answer

Official Explanation:

Answer – C

Whenever you see ‘both’ in a sentence check for two things—the placement of  both  and parallelism between the two things being referred to by  both , that is, enforcement and availability.

In A, the two things implied by ‘both’— the enforcement  and  recreational activities —are not parallel. The use of  being  is also best avoided. B is incorrect because there are no two things coming after  both . In D, the placement of  both  is incorrect as it suggests that there is an enforcement of two things happening in the sentence. In E, the correct idiom is  both X and Y  and not  both X in combination with Y . Also  available recreational activities  is different from availability of recreational activities. C is the correct answer as it makes  enforcement  parallel to  availability

Romil042 · Answer

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