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A 1964 ordinance in the city of Pittsburgh increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling in a residential neighborhood.


(A) increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling

(B) increased the number of people who are allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling

(C) increases the number of people who have been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling

(D) increased the number of people who had been occupying a single-family dwelling

(E) increases the number of people allowed foroccupation in a single-family dwelling
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+1 for B.

(A) increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling --> Incorrect usage of past perfect tense

(B) increased the number of people who are allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling --> Correct, rectifies Verb-Tense error and conveys intended meaning

(C) increases the number of people who have been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling --> Verb-Tense error

(D) increased the number of people who had been occupying a single-family dwelling --> Incorrect usage of past perfect tense

(E) increases the number of people allowed foroccupation in a single-family dwelling --> Verb-Tense error

Hence, B.
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A 1964 ordinance in the city of Pittsburgh increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling in a residential neighborhood.

The sentence is about an event in past, So option B "who are allowed to occupy", the use of present tense in the sentence is unclear.

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A 1964 ordinance in the city of Pittsburgh increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling in a residential neighborhood.

The sentence is about an event in past, So option B "who are allowed to occupy", the use of present tense in the sentence is unclear.

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ordinance was indeed passed in past..but what its effect is presently also true and is being followed.

So use of present tense is perfect here.
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A 1964 ordinance in the city of Pittsburgh increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling in a residential neighborhood.

The sentence is about an event in past, So option B "who are allowed to occupy", the use of present tense in the sentence is unclear.

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The intended meaning is that the number of people has increased. the did no increase in the past. Hence "are" is the correct usage.
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A 1964 ordinance in the city of Pittsburgh increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling in a residential neighborhood.

(A) increased the number of people who had been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling - ''had been allowed'' implies that at some point in the past, this fact ceased to exist. This is not the intended meaning of the passage; the passage intends to discuss about something that occurred in the past and whose effect/presence is still felt today.

(B) increased the number of people who are allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling - has no error. Hence, (B) is the right answer choice.

(C) increases the number of people who have been allowed to occupy a single-family dwelling - since the effect of ''increase'' took place in the past, we need to use the past tense.

(D) increased the number of people who had been occupying a single-family dwelling - has the same error as described in (B).

(E) increases the number of people allowed foroccupation in a single-family dwelling - to ''allow for'' means ''to accommodate''. Hence, (E) introduces the following structure: "....increase the number of people to accommodate occupation''. it does not make any sense to ''accommodate occupation''.
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