The proposed budget

[yuunamiD493]

Hi, I'm very confused about the correct answer of this question. Although I'm not questioning its truth (because the correct answer is always correct), I still want to know how such structure works:

The proposed budget includes more than $1 billion in cuts that will shrink the police department through attrition, have halted some ambulance shifts, and have suspended plastic and glass recycling.

A. have halted some ambulance shifts, and have suspended
B. along with halts in some ambulance shifts, and suspending
C. as well as halted some ambulance shifts, and suspend
D. halt some ambulance shifts, and suspending
E. halt some ambulance shirts, and suspend

OA:E

It seems that "halt some ambulance shirts, and suspend..." are sentence fragments, because they lack a subject. But they could also be interpreted as "omission". What's more, it seems that the "parallelism" takes priority here so the structure is n+v+object.

Could anyone explain how does this structure work?

By the way, I'd like to know whether we could omit the subject after a conjunction if the two actions are done by the same subject. For example, "I went to the shopping mall and bought some cloths". Will it be counted as a "sentence fragment" cos "bought some cloths" is another phrase (which is connected with a conjunction) and it omits the subject "I"? We could certainly say so in speaking English but I'm not sure about how the GMAC view it...

Thank you!

[RonPurewal]

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[yuunamiD493]

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Thanks.

I found this sentence in my notebook but I didn't indicate any source together with it the first time I marked it down...It's quite possibly from one of the GMAT Prep questions that I've done (although I'm not 100% sure). But I'm sure at least it's not from the OG (13th edition, that's the one I have) or other banned sources from our form (I've checked the list).

I'm so sorry if this still cannot make the questions open to discussion...If you still could not answer the question, could you please just answer my question concerning " incomplete phrase parallelism"? (i.e, why it's correct to say "The proposed budget includes more than $1 billion in cuts that will shrink the police department through attrition, halt some ambulance shirts, and suspend plastic and glass recycling." whilst "shrink", "halt" and "suspend" are verbs without a subject and there's no conjunction to link them together.)

Thanks again, and I'm really looking forward for your reply.

[RonPurewal]

Please read the forum rules before posting.

* We need the original source of the problem.

* The thread should be titled according to the first few words of the problem (to facilitate future searches).

Thanks.

I found this sentence in my notebook but I didn't indicate any source together with it the first time I marked it down...It's quite possibly from one of the GMAT Prep questions that I've done (although I'm not 100% sure). But I'm sure at least it's not from the OG (13th edition, that's the one I have) or other banned sources from our form (I've checked the list).

I'm so sorry if this still cannot make the questions open to discussion...If you still could not answer the question, could you please just answer my question concerning " incomplete phrase parallelism"? (i.e, why it's correct to say "The proposed budget includes more than $1 billion in cuts that will shrink the police department through attrition, halt some ambulance shirts, and suspend plastic and glass recycling." whilst "shrink", "halt" and "suspend" are verbs without a subject and there's no conjunction to link them together.)

Thanks again, and I'm really looking forward for your reply.

Not sure I understand. The three verbs are linked in a standard list ("X, Y, and Z"), in which the commas + "and" link the parallel structures together.

Helping verbs (will + verb, can + verb, has/have + verbed, etc.) needn't be repeated.
Tonight after work I will go to the gym, work out, come home, eat, change clothes, and go to the club.

Any further discussion will require a citation of the source. Thanks.