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Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

(A) that they enforce their
(B) for enforcing their
(C) they should enforce their
(D) it should enforce its
(E) to enforce its
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Originally posted by bmwhype2 on 21 Jun 2007, 13:32.
Last edited by Bunuel on 12 Dec 2019, 06:09, edited 3 times in total.
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  21 Jun 2007, 13:48
E

Parallelism here.

since the first part of the sentence introduces the requirements using "either to", the second part (after the "or") needs to begin with "to" as well.
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  21 Jun 2007, 14:00
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bmwhype2:
you seem to be posting a lot of questions where parallelism is being tested. Here's a quick tip, cut the unecessary stuff out of the sentence, modifiers and prepositions. For example:

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

Becomes

Under the ... Act, the ... Agency is required either to approve ... or ... their own plan ...

Simplifying like this points clearly to the answer, which is E.
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  21 Jun 2007, 16:06
baer wrote:
bmwhype2:
you seem to be posting a lot of questions where parallelism is being tested. Here's a quick tip, cut the unecessary stuff out of the sentence, modifiers and prepositions. For example:

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

Becomes

Under the ... Act, the ... Agency is required either to approve ... or ... their own plan ...

Simplifying like this points clearly to the answer, which is E.


that's some good advice. it will save you time on the actual exam as well.
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  25 May 2016, 10:47
baer wrote:
bmwhype2:
you seem to be posting a lot of questions where parallelism is being tested. Here's a quick tip, cut the unecessary stuff out of the sentence, modifiers and prepositions. For example:

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

Becomes

Under the ... Act, the ... Agency is required either to approve ... or ... their own plan ...

Simplifying like this points clearly to the answer, which is E.


Can someone tell me how the sentence is cut down by removing the unwanted statements like "individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water" and what this acts like in the sentence?? A prepositional phrase or anything else?
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  27 May 2016, 07:51
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praneethmadiraju wrote:
baer wrote:
bmwhype2:
you seem to be posting a lot of questions where parallelism is being tested. Here's a quick tip, cut the unecessary stuff out of the sentence, modifiers and prepositions. For example:

Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

Becomes

Under the ... Act, the ... Agency is required either to approve ... or ... their own plan ...

Simplifying like this points clearly to the answer, which is E.


Can someone tell me how the sentence is cut down by removing the unwanted statements like "individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water" and what this acts like in the sentence?? A prepositional phrase or anything else?


The EPA is required to do either of these two things: to approve OR to enforce.

The basic structure of the sentence is,
The EPA is required EITHER to approve OR to enforce.

Now object for the infinitive to approve : individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water
Object for the infinitive to enforce : its own plan for states without adequate regulations

Thus the sentence becomes:
The EPA is required EITHER to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground waterOR to enforce its own plan for states without adequate regulations.
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  27 May 2016, 10:12
bmwhype2 wrote:
886. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

(A) that they enforce their
(B) for enforcing their
(C) they should enforce their
(D) it should enforce its
(E) to enforce its


Identify the parallel marker

Either… or…


Go through the sentence once -

Either to approve or to.......... <---- Must be the correct structure of the sentence...

Among the given options only (E) addresses the parallelism issue...
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  02 Aug 2019, 01:11
Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency is required either to approve individual state plans for controlling the discharge of wastes into underground water or that they enforce their own plan for states without adequate regulations.

(A) that they enforce their- to missing and they is incorrect (should be singular since the subject is singular)
(B) for enforcing their- same as A
(C) they should enforce their- same as A
(D) it should enforce its- to missing
(E) to enforce its- correct
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  18 Aug 2021, 22:34
since is singular so instead of there its must be there
also it is subjunctive so option containing should be eliminated

you will left be option E
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Re: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency [#permalink] New post  09 Dec 2021, 10:04
This problem is clearly of Correlative Conjunction with parallelism.
Idiom used is Either X ..or Y.
Here 'Either to' is not parallel with 'or that'.
The correct version should have 'either to' with 'or to'.
And only option E has this combination, So it's the correct answer.
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