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by showbu » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:29 pm
For decades Surgeon Genarals have warned that smoking increases the risk of lung disease, including lung cancer and emphysema, and can complicate pregnancy, and increases the risk of low birth weight.

a. and can complicate pregnancy, and increases the risk of low birth weight.

b. can complicate pregnancy, and increases low birth weight risks.

c. and can complicate pregnancy, increasing the risks of low birth weight

d. and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight

e. complicating pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight
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Re: pregnancy

by logitech » Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:38 pm
smoking increases the risk of lung disease, and can complicate pregnancy, and increases the risk of low birth weight.

Smoking does three things:

1)Increases
2)Complicate
3) and increases

If this is the case it is B

but if low birth weight risk is attributed to complication of birth it is C&D ( same answer choices by the way) :)



b. can complicate pregnancy, and increases low birth weight risks.

c. and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight

d. and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight
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Re: pregnancy

by showbu » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:31 pm
OA D
showbu wrote:For decades Surgeon Genarals have warned that smoking increases the risk of lung disease, including lung cancer and emphysema, and can complicate pregnancy, and increases the risk of low birth weight.

a. and can complicate pregnancy, and increases the risk of low birth weight.

b. can complicate pregnancy, and increases low birth weight risks.

c. and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight

d. and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight

e. complicating pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight
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by acecoolan » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:03 pm
showbu - in ur post both Options C) and D) are the same. I assume its a typo.

I looked around for this in some other forums and found these as the options C) and D)

(C) and can complicate pregnancy, increasing the risks of low birth weight
(D) and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight

I picked 'D' since I thought that the intent was to link the pregnancy complication to the low birth weights. But yes - as Logitech pointed out, we could have interpreted these are 2 separate effects in which case 'B' might have been better -
But what kept me away from 'B' was the fact that it said 'can complicate pregnancy and increases ...' - not parallel and symmetrical to the other parts of the sentence (i.e. increases the risk of lung disease)
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by showbu » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:22 pm
You are right on C. Thank you for pointing out
acecoolan wrote:showbu - in ur post both Options C) and D) are the same. I assume its a typo.

I looked around for this in some other forums and found these as the options C) and D)

(C) and can complicate pregnancy, increasing the risks of low birth weight
(D) and can complicate pregnancy by increasing the risks of low birth weight

I picked 'D' since I thought that the intent was to link the pregnancy complication to the low birth weights. But yes - as Logitech pointed out, we could have interpreted these are 2 separate effects in which case 'B' might have been better -
But what kept me away from 'B' was the fact that it said 'can complicate pregnancy and increases ...' - not parallel and symmetrical to the other parts of the sentence (i.e. increases the risk of lung disease)
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by Bidisha800 » Sun Jan 11, 2009 11:56 am
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