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by surferdude » Fri Dec 14, 2007 7:02 pm
#128 As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.

A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
C) taking advantage of off season demand, standardizing
D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize


I was able to narrow down the answers to B and E because I knew they needed to be parallel "to sell....." , "to standardize...." and "to predict..."

But I wasn't sure whether it was "take advantage" or "taking advantage". Any ideas??
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by sujaysolanki » Fri Dec 14, 2007 11:09 pm
B ..its parallel

to sell ..., to standardize and to predict sales volume in advance.
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by theroadrunnershow » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:52 am
its obviously either B or E.
sujay.. why is it B?
i peronally feel E is the answer
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by beingAndNothing » Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:35 pm
"taking advantage of off-season demand" acts as an adverbial modifier, modifying the verb "sell all year around". Adverbial modifiers usually start with the ing form. Hence (B)
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by seekmba » Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:43 pm
IMO ans should be B

clearly te phrase "taking advantage of off-season demand" is a modifier which describes the process of selling the fish. It is not one of the main actions

there are four verb phrases in the sentence

to sell the shellfish year-round
taking advantage of off-season demand
standardize its sizes and colors
to predict sales volume in advance

now the phrase "taking advantage of off-season demand" is a verb phrase but it does not represent an action on the shellfish instead it modifies the verb phrase "sell...." (so it is an adverbial phrase) hence E is incorrect, it makes this phrase parallel with the other verb phrases i.e portrays it as a main action.

we need an infinitive to acheive parallesim of the verb phrase "standardize...." with the other verb phrases, both B & E provide this but B also correctly introduces the adverbial modifier

B

Hi Danielle pls do provide your valuable comments on this too!
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by Danielle » Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:26 pm
The answer is B. I can't add anything that seekmba didn't though! Good job, guys!
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