The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response

Question

The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response to the Alkaline Scandal, would increase police databases, funding for neighborhood watch groups,  programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease  the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

(A) programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease
(B) programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, and decrease
(C) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, while decreasing
(D) increase programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and would decrease
(E) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased, while decreasing

AshutoshB · Answer

C
(A) programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease :  absence of conjunction 'And' 
(B) programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, and decrease: absence of conjunction 'And' 
(C) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, while decreasing : correct order and placement of conjunction 
(D) increase programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and would decrease: absence of conjunction 'And' 
(E) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased, while decreasing: logic change

idjevin · Answer

AshutoshB , most of your reasoning is correct. However, don't you think parallelism is vioated in option C ?

I feel (B) is the better answer, since a conjunction is required only between the last two points(as given in option B).
What are your thoughts?

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chesstitans · Answer

here is OE from Magoosh,
I am happy to respond to you

2) The three elements that will be increased need to be in parallel. The first two, “police databases” and “funding for neighborhood watch groups” are before the underline section. The third element, ” programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth,” has to have the word “and” in front of it because it’s the last element on the list. Also, the action of decreasing has to be separate from this list. Choices (A) & (B) treat the action of decreasing as another element on the list, which is incorrect. Choices (D) & (E) introduce a separate verb for the third element on the list, disrupting the parallelism. Only (C) gets all of this correct.

BTW, notice: to show purpose, the construction “programs for rehabilitating” is awkward — this is what (A) & (D) have. What we need is the infinitive of purpose, “programs to rehabilitate.”

For all these reasons, (C) is the only possible answer.

For the post of the other member, I do not know about his assumption.

aragonn · Answer

MAGOOSH Official Explanation:

The three elements that will be increased need to be in parallel. The first two, "police databases" and "funding for neighborhood watch groups" are before the underline section. The third element, "programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth," has to have the word "and" in front of it because it's the last element on the list. Also, the action of decreasing has to be separate from this list. Choices (A) & (B) treat the action of decreasing as another element on the list, which is incorrect. Choices (D) & (E) introduce a separate verb for the third element on the list, disrupting the parallelism. Only (C) gets all of this correct.

BTW, notice: to show purpose, the construction "programs for rehabilitating" is awkward --- this is what (A) & (D) have. What we need is the infinitive of purpose, "programs to rehabilitate."

For all these reasons, (C) is the only possible answer.

pineapple123456 · Answer

Read this sentence in Captain Holt's voice, made me understand it better lol.

dcummins · Answer

The verb "decease" is not parallel with the nouns ...i.e. the structure Increase (verb) Noun, Noun, Noun, and decrease (verb) includes "decrease" in the list.

We need to close this off by the following structure:
 Increase  {start list 1: noun, noun, and noun} , and decrease  {start list 2...} 
Only (C) and (E) have this structure.

(C) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, while decreasing
(E) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth  would be increased , while decreasing

(E) repeats "increase" and reads as follows: "increase programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased" -- this is nonsensical- ->Eliminate.

(C) is  correct

tryingtoberich · Answer

Can anyone explains the use of decreasing is correct instead of full verb decrease?

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  tryingtoberich . (I like the amusing name.) The answer to your question is based on the five answer choices presented. To be clear,  and decrease  would be parallel with the infinitive  increase  from earlier in the sentence, but we would need a sentence that resembled the following:

The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response to the Alkaline Scandal, would increase police databases, funding for neighborhood watch groups,   and  programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, and   decrease  the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

The first three items in the list are understood to  increase , so, in order to separate the third item in that list from the  decrease  that will follow, we need an  and  to introduce that final item. Otherwise, we anticipate a fourth item that will increase as well, and the sentence proves confusing to read—i.e.  would increase A, B, C, and  decrease  D . Since no answer choices with  and   decrease  place the crucial (list-ending)  and  in the correct place, we do not even need to worry about the  decrease/decreasing  split.

I hope that helps. If you have further questions, feel free to ask. Good luck with your studies.

- Andrew

Basshead · Answer

The new crime legislation, introduced by Senator Gladstone in response to the Alkaline Scandal, would increase police databases, funding for neighborhood watch groups,  programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease  the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

The new crime legislation would increase:
- police databases
- funding for neighborhood watch groups
- AND programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth

while decreasing the parole possibilities for violent convicts.

We need the 'and' before 'programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth'.

Answer is C.

(A) programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and decrease
(B) programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, and decrease
(C) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth, while decreasing
(D) increase programs for rehabilitating at-risk youth, and would decrease
(E) and programs to rehabilitate at-risk youth would be increased, while decreasing

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