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Nine months after the county banned jet skis and other water boats from the tranquil waters of Puget Sound, a judge overturned the ban on the grounds of violating state laws for allowing the use of personal watercraft on common waterways.
Title
Jet skis on Puget Sound
Your Result
Correct
Difficulty
Hard
Your Pace
0:08
Others' Pace
1:06
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Text Explanation
The phrasing in both (A) & (B) are awkward for expressing an action. The idiom "on the grounds of X" works best when X is a simple noun, but for a gerund conveying an action, we need a "that" clause.
(C) The context of the rest of the sentence is in the past tense, so the switch to the present tense for "violates" is incorrect.
(D) is direct and grammatically correct.
(E) the passive construction is unusual and unnatural. It is very natural to say "X violates the law," but it sounds quite peculiar to say "the law is violated." The use of the progressive makes the entire construction even more awkward. This is incorrect.
The only possible answer is (D).
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