Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota have begun to enforce

Question

Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota have begun to enforce statewide bans prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.

A. prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings.
B. prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass fillings.
C. prohibiting landfills from accpeting leaves, brush, and grass clippings
D. that leaves, brush, and grass fillings cannot be accepted in landfills
E. hat landfills cannot accpept leaves, brush, and grass clippings


I shortlisted two. Now am confused with the OA.

Any explanations?

Thanks!

thearch · Answer

correct idiom should be prohibiting X from doing
so (C)

AJB77 · Answer

You prohibit someone  from  doing something. So C it is.

vkat007 · Answer

No doubt... it is C. Prohibit from + Ex: You are prohibited from drinking alcohol while taking the GMAT. ( Although, I think I perform much better if they did allow me to drink alcohol during the test :-)

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thearch · Answer

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ywilfred · Answer

I'll go with C. 'from accepting' is the best form between A,B and C. D and E are plain awkward.

kdhong · Answer

Another one for C. The idiom used is prohibit from.

Jacques · Answer

This is a OG question and it is simple. You prohibit X from doing Y.

A. prohibiting landfills to accept leaves, brush, and grass clippings. 
Wrong. 'prohibiting X to do Y' is not idiomatic.

B. prohibiting that landfills accept leaves, brush, and grass fillings. 
Wrong. Not idiomatic.

C. prohibiting landfills from accpeting leaves, brush, and grass clippings 
Right. prohibiting X(landfills) from doing Y(accepting x,y and z) form.

D. that leaves, brush, and grass fillings cannot be accepted in landfills 

E. that landfills cannot accpept leaves, brush, and grass clippings

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