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Rebuilding and Levee Development has Permitted the Seacoast Town GMAT Sentence Correction

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Sayantani Barman

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Question: 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

Answer: C
Explanation: To convince someone to modify their language, provide the following justification:

  • Parallelism
  • Thinking about two distinct truths
  • Modifiers

Given that,
The seacoast town's increased tourist traffic over the past few months and ability to reallocate the budget surplus as a result of construction and levee development.
Meaning: Levee development and reconstruction These two organisations have given the seaside town permission to do two things:
A. boost traveller numbers B. repurpose budget excess
Because there is a clear intention conveyed, the first verb must use the second verb.
Option A: use of "with increasing" is inappropriate because it doesn't reflect the passage's intent and results in inconsistent parallelism.
Option B: The SV pair agrees there is no error.
Option C: Corrects the noted error
Choosing D: SV pair agrees on no errors, parallelism errors, and starts an IC with the usage of it.
Choice E: Parallelism problem again with reallocating and use of for is improper

Let's check the given options in detail.

A: Incorrect
It is an incorrect choice. The use of with increasing is incorrect as it doesn't show the intent as mentioned in the passage, and causes inconsistent parallelism. Hence this choice is eliminated.

B: Incorrect
This choice is an incorrect one. has allowed the seacoast town to reallocate resources and enhance visitor visits during the previous six months (has is the wrong usage; the two actions connected by and should use a plural verb: have). Hence this choice is eliminated.

C: Correct
It is the correct choice. We use "let someone do something" the most frequently. With "to grow" and "to reallocate" perfectly parallel, (C) satisfies the expectation. To beat other possibilities, they must be far superior (C).

D: Incorrect
D is an incorrect choice. has allowed the seaside town to see an increase in visitor traffic in recent months, and it is reallocating resources. "Rebuilding and levee development" is the subject. The necessary parallelism is absent. Hence this choice is eliminated.

E: Incorrect
This is an incorrect choice. By including the word "to," "permit for the town to increase" sounds a little better than (A). There's a chance that it appeared in some ancient manuscripts. Nonetheless, for the sake of brevity on the GMAT, words like "for" or "being" should be dropped if they can be done safely.
Moreover, "to increase" and "reallocate" are not equivalent.
The word "and" is shorter than "as well as," to finish. Hence this choice is eliminated.

“Rebuilding and levee development has permitted the seacoast town” is a GMAT sentence correction question. The text that is underlined in these questions has grammatical mistakes, and we must select the right response from the list of possibilities. The GMAT verbal section includes GMAT sentence correction.

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