Quote:
With no policy restricting the number of children a family can have and nursing homes that care for the elderly, Census Bureau officials estimate the United States' population to have grown by 150 million people over the last sixty years.
(A) With no policy restricting the number of children a family can have and nursing homes that provide care for the elderly, Census Bureau officials estimate the United States' population to have
(B) With no policy restricting the number of children a family can have and with nursing homes that provide care for the elderly, Census Bureau officials’ estimate of the population in the United States has
(C) With no policy restricting the number of children a family can have and with nursing homes where the elderly are provided with care, the United States' population, Census Bureau officials estimate, has
(D) Without a policy restricting the number of children a family can have and the elderly provided with care in nursing homes, the United States has a population that Census Bureau officials estimate to have
(E) Without a policy restricting the number of children a family can have and with nursing homes where the elderly are provided with care, Census Bureau officials estimate that the United States' population has
went with E, initially.
further close reading uncovers the following:-
2 ways to deal with:
1.
* 'population...have' - wrong. Should be 'population...has' - eliminates A and D
* Parallelism: "with [something] and with [something else]" - eliminates E
* Modifier - 'With no policy...' should modify 'United States' population and not modify Census Bureau. ---> So we take C over B.
2.
* Modifier - who is the modifier (front portion) pertaining to? United States population or Census Bureau? ---> United States population. So, eliminates A, B and E, leaving us C and D.
* Parallelism - it should be 'With [something] and with [something else]' ---> we eliminate D, thus arriving at answer C.