(A) and establish tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are to be allowed to grow and to encourage
(B) and establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain able to be grown by farmers and encouraging
(C) establishing tighter restrictions for the amount of grain farmers are allowed to grow and to encourage
(D) to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain capable of being grown by farmers and encouraging
(E) to establish tighter restrictions on the amount of grain farmers will be allowed to grow and to encourage
Solution:
OG Solution: Idiom
This sentence requires attention to the small, linking words so often overlooked. When will try is used with another verb to show purpose or intent, the correct expression is will try to, not will try and. The correct preposition following restriction is not for but on. Are to be allowed to grow is wordy; the infinitive to be should be omitted for a tighter and clearer expression.
(A) To, indicating purpose, should replace and before establish, restrictions is incorrectly followed by for rather than on; to be is wordy and should be omitted
(B) And before establish does not show purpose; the passive voice able to be grown by is weak and wordy; the constructions and establish… and encouraging… are not parallel
(C) Will try establishing does not show intent or purpose; restrictions must be followed by on not for, parallelism is lost
(D) Passive voice construction capable of being grown by is week and wordy; encouraging and to establish are not parallel
(E) Correct. To establish indicates purpose and parallels to encourage, restrictions is correctly followed by on; the wordiness of the verb phrase has been eliminated.
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