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by singhag » Sat Feb 20, 2010 10:59 am
Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it

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by money9111 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:13 pm
IMO C because it predicted that the processes would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity...
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by thephoenix » Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:24 pm
singhag wrote:Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it

Kindly post your answer with an explanation...OA after some discussion
IMO A

b) wrng idiom "predict X to be Y" is unidiomatic.
c)awkward
d)"predict X to do Y" is unidiomatic.
e) meaning altered

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by onedayi'll » Sat Feb 20, 2010 8:04 pm
+ 1 A

something is "predicted" in past => "would" is require to refer to future from past
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by bhumika.k.shah » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:49 pm
Kindly help yourself clear this ambiguity picture in your mind with regards to this sentence by looking at Ron's explanation in this link

https://www.beatthegmat.com/ethnicity-t39693-15.html

Hope this helps :)

singhag wrote:Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it

Kindly post your answer with an explanation...OA after some discussion