Agencies studying discrimination in housing

Question

Agencies studying discrimination in housing have experimentally proved that minority clients are often discouraged as prospective buyers of residential real estate and  the antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices.

A) the antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices
B) in recent decades, the antidiscrimination legislation only mitigated, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices
C) that antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades has only mitigated, rather than abolished, inequity in housing practices
D) that, in recent decades, antidiscrimination legislation has only mitigated, rather than abolishing, housing practices’ inequity
E) that recent decades’ antidiscrimination legislation only were mitigating, rather than abolishing, housing practices’ inequity

shriramvelamuri · Answer

YUp... Glaring choice answer C.

Option A: legislation is a singular..... Hence this is out.

Option B: Changes the meaning and also not parallel (mitigated and Abolishing...)

Option D: Changed the meaning and also not parallel (Mitigated and Abolishing)

Option E: Legislation is singular.

Nice question.

sukanyar · Answer

"that" should be repeated after "and" to match with the "that" before "and". So, we only have C, D and E to choose from.

Now, parallelism between " mitigated" and "abolished" makes it C!

E unnecessarily uses two possessives: decades’ anti-discrimination legislation and housing practices’ inequity.

321kumarsushant · Answer

Rather Than is used for Verb only. OPtion C is correct.

Abhishek009 · Answer

Agencies studying discrimination in housing have experimentally proved

1.   that   minority clients are often discouraged as prospective buyers of residential real estate and
2.  ___________    antidiscrimination legislation of recent decades ...............

To maintain parallelism " that " is needed : That X and That Y

The correct Idiomatic usage of rather is - X rather than Y

A)  the antidiscrimination  legislation of recent decades were only mitigating, rather than abolishing, inequity in housing practices  - Incorrect  
B)  in recent decades , the antidiscrimination legislation only  mitigated, rather than abolishing , inequity in housing practices  - Incorrect

C)  that antidiscrimination  legislation of recent decades has only  mitigated, rather than abolished , inequity in housing practices

D)  that, in recent decades,  antidiscrimination legislation has only mitigated, rather than abolishing, housing practices’ inequity -  Incorrect

E)  that recent decades’ antidiscrimination  legislation only were mitigating, rather than abolishing, housing practices’ inequity  Posessive - Incorrect

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