785). The National Labor Relations Act expressly forbids unions from engaging in secondary boycotts against companies not directly involved in a labor dispute.
(A) unions from engaging in
(B) the engagement by unions of
(C) unions to engage in
(D) unions from becoming engaged with
(E) that unions engage upon
786). The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended the use of fail-safe mechanisms on airliner cargo door latches assuring the doors are properly closed before takeoff and to prevent them from popping open in flight.
(A) assuring the doors are properly closed
(B) for the assurance of proper closing(C) assuring proper closure
(D) to assure closing the doors properly
(E) to assure that the doors are properly closed
Answers:
785) .OA - C - idiomatic - forbid X to Y
786). (OG 10th Ques No. 96) - OA - E - with its idiomatic and precise noun clause, is the best answerOE: The correct choice will include to assure, an infinitive parallel to to prevent. Thus, A, B, and C are disqualified.
A, C - incorrect - the participial phrases in A and C (assuring... ), easily construed as adjectives modifying latches, are confusing.
B, C - incorrect - in omitting the noun doors, they fail both to specify what is being closed and to supply an antecedent for the pronoun them.
D - incorrect - offers the necessary infinitive, but the gerund phrase closing ... imprecisely refers to the act of closing the doors rather than to the condition of the closed doors.
787). The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.(A) The nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.(B) To the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote two letters, being the only eyewitness accounts of the great eruption of Vesuvius.(C) The only eyewitness account is in two letters by the nephew of Pliny the Elder writing to the historian Tacitus an account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.(D) Writing the only eyewitness account, Pliny the Elder’s nephew accounted for the great eruption of Vesuvius in two letters to the historian Tacitus.
(E) In two letters to the historian Tacitus, the nephew of Pliny the Elder wrote the only eyewitness account of the great eruption of Vesuvius.
788). The new contract forbids a strike by the transportation union.(A) forbids a strike by the transportation union(B) forbids the transportation union from striking(C) forbids that there be a strike by the transportation union(D) will forbid the transportation union from striking(E) will forbid that the transportation union strikes
Answers:
787). (OG 10th Ques no - 256) - OA - E
OE: E, the best choice, conveys its meaning clearly, without ambiguity, and uses straightforward syntax.
A - incorrect - the placement of the phrase in two letters to the historian Tacitus generates ambiguity: the nonsensical suggestion is that the eruption of Vesuvius took place in the letters themselves.
B - incorrect - the verb phrase that begins being the only eyewitness accounts modifies the subject of the preceding clause, suggesting nonsensically that the nephew of Pliny the Elder himself was the eyewitness accounts. Furthermore, To the historian Tacitus, the nephew... wrote two letters is unnecessarily clumsy.
C - incorrect - the meaning of the sentence is unclear (The only eyewitness account of what?), the repetition of account is clumsy, and the syntax is highly
convoluted (... in two letters by the nephew of Pliny the Elder writing to the historian Tacitus an account...).
D - incorrect - writing the only eyewitness account, Pliny the Elder's nephew accounted is redundant, and the placement of in two letters to the historian Tacitus generates ambiguity, suggesting under one available reading that the eruption took place in the letters
788). OA - A
Correct idiom is x forbids y to do z or x prohibits y from doing z thus A is equivalent to - The new contract forbids the transportation union to strike
B - incorrect - unidiomatic - ...forbid...from.. http://www.bartleby.com/68/83/2583.html
C - incorrect - wordy - ..there be...
D, E - incorrect - use of will is wrong....simple present tense is required here. Further contract (singular) so we need forbids(singular).
789). The new regulations mandate that a company allows their retiring employees who would otherwise lose group health care coverage to continue the same insurance at their own expense for a specified period.
(A) that a company allows their retiring employees who would otherwise lose group health care coverage to continue
(B) companies to allow their retiring employees who would otherwise lose group health care coverage that they can continue
(C) that a company allow its retiring employees who would otherwise lose group health care coverage to continue(D) companies allowing a retiring employee whose group health care coverage would otherwise be lost the continuation of
(E) companies to allow a retiring employee whose group health care coverage would otherwise be lost he continuation of
790). The number of mountain gorillas is declining with such rapidity that the population is one-half in the twenty years between a count made by George Schaller in 1960 and the one made by Dian Fossey in 1980.
(A) with such rapidity that the population is one-half
(B) with such rapidity that the population was one-half
(C) so rapidly the population divided in half
(D) so rapidly that the population was halved
(E) in such rapidity that the population is halved
Answers:
789). OA - C
A - incorrect - ...a company(singular)....their(plural)...
B, D, E - incorrect - subjunctive so require that
790) . OA - D - idiomatic - ...so+adjective/ adverb+that..
A, B, E - incorrect - unidiomatic - ..such rapidity
C - incorrect - changes the meaning - wrongly suggests that the population divided in half
