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While some industry analysts propose to deal with illegal sharing of music by attempting to change people's attitudes toward pirating, others by suggesting reducing online music prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others by calling for the prosecution of those who share and distribute music files illegally.

(A) by suggesting reducing online music prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others by calling
(B) by suggesting the reduction of online music prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others call
(C) suggest the reduction of online music prices for decreasing the incentive for pirating, and still others call
(D) suggest the reduction of online music prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others by calling
(E) suggest reducing online music prices to decrease the incentive for pirating, and still others are calling



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While some industry analysts propose to deal with illegal 02 Dec 2005, 12:34
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E is best.
While some industry analysts propose..., others suggest- so A and B are out.
attempting, reducing, and calling- only E maintains parallelism.
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While some industry analysts propose to deal with illegal 02 Dec 2005, 21:12
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Another OG "knockoff".

OA is E.

OE:

Look for Conjunctions and/or multiple descriptions.The list of things of the various suggestions/proposals by analysts shows that lists are being tested.

Rule and Fix:
A list must be of all nouns or all verbs and must be balanced, the list in this case contains one part that is not underlined (some industry analysts propose ..., others by suggesting, ... and still others by calling) and two parts that are. However the list is not currently balanced, since all components are not the same verb form.

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A, B, and D all have parts that are not parallel because they dont use a present tense verb or include a preposition (by).

Chunk and Compare:
Compare C to E. The difference is for decreasing versus to decrease, for decreasing is unidiomatic

Reread your choice:
Choose E
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good explanation Matt.

I was stuck between C and E for a long time. :m16



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