Question

A New York City ordinance of 1897 regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted pedestrians right-of-way.

(A) regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required of cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
(B) regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, granting
(C) regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and it granted
(D) regulating the use of bicycles, mandating a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, requiring of cyclists that they keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted
(E) regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted

Answer 1

The correct option is E: regulating the use of bicycles mandated a maximum speed of eight miles an hour, required cyclists to keep feet on pedals and hands on handlebars at all times, and granted

Step-by-step explanation:

In Option A has problems with parallelism. The "IT" before the granted made the sentence not to be parallel.

In Option B, the problem i find with this one is that there is no "and" before the granting. You cannot have a list in a sentence without an "and" before the last item on the list

Option C is also wrong because it is not parallel. Mandated cannot be parallel to "it granted". Same error as the first.

Option D is also wrong because it is incorrect to use "ing" forms as verb.

Option E: This eliminates all the errors from the previous options, hence is the correct option.