OG247

susanoffice

OG said D is wordy and unidiomatic. Could anybody explain it to me?

247. Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.

1. proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

2. proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and for subsidizing

3. proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize

4. has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions, and to subsidize

5. was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

alanguo

用一般过去时，D用现在完成时，错误。GMAT改错一般来说不改时态，如果时态没错。

一般过去时和现在完成时的区别：一般过去时表示过去某一时间发生的事，与现在无关；现在完成时强调过去发生的事对现在的影响。例如：

I opened the door. 我（以前）打开了门。（门现在是不是开着不知道）

I have opened the door. 我打开了门。（门现在是开着的）

monicars

as explained in OG, in D, there is no grammatical referent for 'it'. in addition, D violates parallelism (to maintain and to subsidize).

xiongxiong88

In C, the phrase proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated is unidiomatic and overly wordy.

og中说unidiomatic是指the amount from the previous year吗？还是有其他语法错误？

alanguo

C中的to subsidize与proposed后的to reduce并列。但从原句的意思看应该与to maintain并列来形容资金。