Effects of several tsunamis

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Effects of several tsunamis

by satishchandra » Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:10 pm
After suffering the effect of several tsunamis, the residents of a Japanese city built a wall on their coast over forty feet hih and a mile long, a way to protect the city against another disaster.

A. a way to protect
B. in efforts to protect
C. Protecting
D. to protect in one way
E. in order to protect

[spoiler]OA: C; Source:Kaplan800
My question is: Whats wrong with 'E'.
Why residents had to build the wall? To protect the city against one more disaster.
I thought 'to protect' or 'in order to protect' makes ideal sense here. [/spoiler]
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by VivianKerr » Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:04 am
In E, the comma after "long" changes things. If there had been no comma, E would have been acceptable, but you would have a comma precede "in order to" as it would need to be a part of the preceding clause. In this instance, though, also notice how C is less wordy than E.
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by viv_gmat » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:41 am
I agree with Vivian that is exactly I got C.

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by gmatpup » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:25 am
I also chose C... I thought about parallelism.. since they use "suffering" then "protecting" goes with it

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