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Until the passage of the Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendments Act in 1982, a first-time
charge of copyright infringement was merely a misdemeanor charge, federal prosecutors
being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were subject to
relatively small penalties.
A. charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright
infringers, while offenders were
B. charge, with federal prosecutors who were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright
infringers, offenders being
C. charge, federal prosecutors unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, while
offenders were
D. charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely in pursuing criminal
copyright infringers and offenders being
E. charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright
infringers, and offenders were



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Since two part of the sentence are not directly connected, you should divide them with a semicolon. Remember that GMAT does not like "being" and the infinitiv is better that "-ing" form, so (E) is the right choice.
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+1 E

Parallelism as "x were" and "Y were"
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Until the passage of the Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendments Act in 1982, a first-time
charge of copyright infringement was merely a misdemeanor charge, federal prosecutors
being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were subject to
relatively small penalties.
A. charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright
infringers, while offenders were
B. charge, with federal prosecutors who were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright
infringers, offenders being
C. charge, federal prosecutors unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, while
offenders were
D. charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely in pursuing criminal
copyright infringers and offenders being
E. charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright
infringers, and offenders were
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E.
One of the reasons we use semicolon is to show cause and effect relationship.
In the question, federal prosecutors were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers because the charge was merely a misdemeanor. This relationship is quite aptly conveyed by a semicolon.
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Clearly E, since we need a coonector such as "Therefore" to connect the two sentence, so only D and E remains. E is better worded and avoids being so that is the answer
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Until the passage of the Piracy and Counterfeiting Amendments Act in 1982, a first-time
charge of copyright infringement was merely a misdemeanor charge, federal prosecutors
being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright infringers, while offenders were subject to
relatively small penalties.
A. charge, federal prosecutors being unlikely in pursuing criminal copyright
infringers, while offenders were
B. charge, with federal prosecutors who were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright
infringers, offenders being
C. charge, federal prosecutors unlikely to pursue criminal copyright infringers, while
offenders were
D. charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely in pursuing criminal
copyright infringers and offenders being
E. charge; therefore, federal prosecutors were unlikely to pursue criminal copyright
infringers, and offenders were
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+1 for E. Both independent clauses. Semi colon correctly prevents run on. infinitive used instead of participle.
E wins.



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