Rebuilding and levee development has permitted the seacoast town

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Rebuilding and levee development  have permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate  the budget surplus as a result.

A) have permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate

B) has permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate

C) have permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate

D) has permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months, and it is reallocating

E) have permitted for the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months as well as reallocating

generis · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC2)

THE PROMPT  
 
• Subject: compound.
Two events happened: (1) rebuilding   and (2) development of the levee.

• Idiom
→ The correct idiom is  permitted to   
There is no such thing as  permitted with   .
 Permitted for    is also not idiomatic.

THE OPTIONS  
 
• lack of parallelism
→ The verb  permit  takes direct objects—in this case, an increase in tourists and a reallocation of its budget
→ But the direct objects, joined by and, are not parallel.  With increasing  . . . and  to reallocate  are not parallel

• Idiom error and nonsensical
→ There is no such thing as  permitted with. 
We say that X is   permitted to   do ABC.

• nonsensical
→ What on earth is  permitted . . . with increasing its tourist visitation ?
Never mind the idiom error. Quite aside from it, the language makes no sense.
ELIMINATE A
 
• subject/verb error
The compound subject  rebuilding and levee development  requires the plural verb  have,  not the singular verb  has. 
ELIMINATE B

• I do not see any errors

• the compound subject requires the plural verb  have permitted

•  permitted TO  is the correct idiom

•  to increase  . . . and  to reallocate  are parallel 
KEEP

• subject/verb agreement
→ same problem as that in option B

• idiom error
→ same problem as that in option A
ELIMINATE D

• idiom error and mixup
→  permitted for  is not correct
→  permitted to  is correct
→ often,  allowed for  is correct; the authors may be trying to hook people with this idiom.

• lack of parallelism
→  to increase  and  reallocating  are not parallel
The town can now do two things. Those things should be parallel because they are objects of the verb  permit .
 As well as  does not require quite as strict a level of parallelism as does the word  and,  but if  as well as  is acting like the word  and,  parallel construction is preferred.
ELIMINATE E

The answer is C.

COMMENTS

ppy  , welcome to SC Butler.

These answers are very good; the whole thread is worth reading to get different perspectives and analysis.

I actually have too many contenders—at least 4—for Best Community Reply.

Nicely done!

zhanbo · Answer

My answer is  (C) .

The subject is "Rebuilding and levee development". "Rebuilding" and "levee development" are two separate actions, so the subject is plural. Eliminate (B) and (D) because both uses "has" (singular) in verb.

Mostly commonly, we use "permit someone to do something". (C) fits the expectation, and ”to increase" and "to reallocate" are in perfect parallel. Other options must be supremely better to beat (C).

(A) "permit the seacoast town  with ” is no contender as such usage is rare, if at all. Also, "with increasing.." and "to reallocate" are not parallel.

(E) "Permit  for  the town to increase", by the virtue of using "to", sounds a bit better than (A). It might have been used in some archaic texts. In GMAT, however, if a word such as "for" or “being" can be eliminated safely, it should for the sake of brevity. 
Also, "to increase" is not parallel with "reallocating".
Finally, "and" is shorter than "as well as".

winterschool · Answer

Rebuilding and levee development have permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate the budget surplus as a result.

A) have permitted the seacoast town  with increasing  its tourist visitation over the past few months and  to reallocate   Incorrect

B)  has  permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate  Incorrect

C)  have permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate   Correct

D)  has  permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months, and it is reallocating  Incorrect

E) have permitted for the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months  as well as reallocating   Incorrect

POE -

I think - ...permitted .....to.... - correct idioms
Rebuilding and levee development - plural form, so has should be have
Eliminate B & D

In A -to reallocate- is not parallel with - with increasing, so eliminate
In E - as well as - uses wrong and reallocating is not parallel with increase , eliminate E

Answer C

sumitkrocks · Answer

(C) is the answer IMO

Rebuilding and levee development have permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate the budget surplus as a result.

A) have permitted the seacoast town  with  increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate

Correct idiom is "permitted to" not "permitted with"

B)  has  permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate
S-V disagreement 
Subject is "Rebuilding and levee development" plural

C) have permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate

D)  has  permitted the seacoast town  with  increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months ,  and it is reallocating
Subject is "Rebuilding and levee development" plural 
Required parallelism is missing 
 
E) have permitted  for  the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months  as well as  reallocating 
Required parallelism is missing 
Wordy

ppy · Answer

Meaning - Rebuilding and Levee Development these two entities have permitted the seacoast town to do 2 things:
a. increase tourist visitation 
b. reallocate the budget surplus 
There is a clear intention stated hence use of to verb is needed for the first verb.

Choice A :use of with increasing is incorrect as it doesn't show the intent as mentioned in the passage ,and causes inconsistent parallelism
Choice B :SV pair agree in no. error
Choice C :Corrects the error mentioned 
Choice D :SV pair agree in no. error, parallelism error with the use of it is reallocating and the comma + and starts an IC
Choice E : use of for is unidiomatic , parallelism error again with reallocating

Correct answer choice C

kantapong · Answer

By S-V agreement, B and D are eliminated.
A) have permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate
(permit with increasing ... + permit to reallocate ...: both could not be correct at the same time -> DROP)

C) have permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate
(permit to increase... + permit to reallocate ...: good -> KEEP)

E) have permitted for the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months as well as reallocating
(permit to increase ... + permit to reallocating ...: same as A -> DROP)

Ans: C

swim2109 · Answer

IMO C is the answer.

Pre-thinking error: Parallelism issue is the major issue. Have permitted the seacoast town  to ..... and  to  allocate

A) have permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate----> (No parallelism maintained; with.....to is wrong)

B) has permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate (has is worng usage; the two actions connected by and should use plural verb: have)

C) have permitted the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months and to reallocate----> (correct)

D) has permitted the seacoast town with increasing its tourist visitation over the past few months, and it is reallocating----(Parallelism and Subject verb agreement issues)

E) have permitted for the seacoast town to increase its tourist visitation over the past few months as well as reallocating--->( permitted for is wrong. Parallelism issue also persists)

thelonghalloween · Answer

So the main differences are
have vs has 
with increasing vs to increase
to reallocate vs reallocating

X and Y have gone out.. This is the correct structure i.e., When joined by AND, the verb should be plural

So using 'have' is correct
Second, 'with increasing' is not correct idiom
Reallocate should simply be parallel to the form of word 'increase'

All three conditions are satisfied only in option C

So IMO C

Archit3110 · Answer

2/3 split with 
Rebuilding and levee development ; use of have is correct eliminate B & D
option C is correct as it has parallelism
  have permitted the seacoast town  to increase  its tourist visitation over the past few months and  to reallocate

generis · Answer

The official explanation is  here .

kadamhari825 · Answer

Hello experts 
@sumitrocks,  generis

I got this question wrong because i had impression that "levee development and rebuilding" ARE singular subject because ( I THOUGHT) development and rebuilding are two sides of same coin, so how to make sure whether subject is singular of plural when we do not know the meaning of levee development?

Thanks in advance

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