kidnly explian the differece in between A and B.

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PostSun Aug 02, 2009 5:29 am
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532. New theories propose that catastrophic impacts of asteroids and comets may have caused reversals in the Earth's magnetic field, the onset of ice ages, splitting apart continents 80 million years ago, and great volcanic eruptions.
(A) splitting apart continents
(B) the splitting apart of continents
(C) split apart continents
(D) continents split apart
(E) continents that were split apart


Hi All,
I am unable to understand the difference between A an B, please shed some light on this question.

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PostSun Aug 02, 2009 7:04 am
IMO

A = here splitting is acting as verb (due to absence of "the"
B = it is acting as noun...whatever follows( articles like "a", "an", "the" is noun)...

since we need to have noun parallelism as required in the sentence...so we need to have the correct option as B....
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