Sentence Correction

What are the correct ans. of these SCs? Please help

Please see the answers and my queries in next post that I'll post soon

Well here goes my analysis...

1) IMO E

initially i just went for parallelism by...,by.... and by.... so this narrowed down to D and E.

now salmon's numbers "are reducing" talks bout the current situation whereas "have been" talks that the process has started in the past and is still continuing... hence E is better than D

2) IMO D

i don't have a solid explanation...i just went for D because it sounds right..

Correct ans:
[spoiler]1. e
2. d[/spoiler]

PAB2706, u got it correct. My doubts:
1. How can we use "numbers of x" because as per my understanding it should be "number of x" and it takes singular verb.
2. Don't we need a comma to separate adjectives from the noun here which is used in choice b?

hey vaibhav,

1)you are right numbers OF is a wrong usage.. but you are missing the point here.... wild salmon's numbers is right for example...you will understand if i give u a relevant example.. " During the partition, muslims left india in large numbers." similarly "salmon's numbers" is right usage showing large quantity. i dnt know whether you are following what i mean to say..i am sloppy when it comes to explaning grammar

Thanks PAB2706,
Your example is pretty clear. I guess you mean to say here "numbers" is used as noun. Thanks again.

Can u comment on ques. 2?

vaibhav.iit2002 wrote:What are the correct ans. of these SCs? Please help

Please see the answers and my queries in next post that I'll post soon

for the second one check Parallelism
1 -- says both rooted
so has to be in the form both X and Y
where X and Y verbs .. and Y Missing so leave it
2 --- has the same problem
3 --- who produced a body rooted is given as an non essential modifier (since in commas) try droping it and you will find the answer doesn't make sense .
4 ----correct answer perfect uses that, which in turn plays the role of essential modifier
5 --same problem as 1 and 2
hope this helps

kaulnikhil, thanks for the explanation. I got it.