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by zagcollins » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:00 am
Responding to the public’s fascination with-and sometimes undue alarm over-possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth.

A. a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may
B. a scale that astronomers have developed rates how likely it is for a particular asteroid or comet to
C. astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to
D. astronomers have developed a scale for rating the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet will
E. astronomers have developed a scale that rates the likelihood of a particular asteroid or comet that may.

OA is C
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by Dante » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:10 am
I go with C (will looks bad)

E also looks fine (but feel to is required). Please clarify.
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by ricky » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:25 am
IMO c.
E is undiomatic and changes the meaning of original sentence

What is OA?
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by reachac » Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:02 am
IMO D
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by lvincy » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:05 am
I will go with D
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by kiranlegend » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:14 am
IMO D.. what's OA?
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by Vignesh.4384 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:08 pm
Hi,

IMO D.

C does not seem to be a good option.
between D and E .. D maintains parallelism..
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by rolodex » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:32 pm
IMO C

C. commet will be likely to collide .................. (this is the right way)
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by ildude02 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:59 pm
C is my pick. I think using "will" in D along with the word "likelyhood" which means it's not certain is not correct. The word that fits the "uncertain" event is "may" . E changes the meaning to say that sclae rates its self instead of C which says, scale is "used" to rate. Not sure if my reasoning is OK.
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by Aldiablo » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:48 pm
IMO C.

AB wrong modifier

D changes meaning from comets may collide to comets will collide.

E 'that' should be have been 'which'.
When you think you can or you cannot, you are generally correct.
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by Vignesh.4384 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:01 am
Hi ,

Why do u need the word may here ? the word likelihood intrinsically that it might or might not collide ..
so i thought we could do away with that word may.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

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by Aldiablo » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:16 am
Vignesh.4384 wrote:Hi ,

Why do u need the word may here ? the word likelihood intrinsically that it might or might not collide ..
so i thought we could do away with that word may.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

Regards,
vignesh

Basic skeleton is like -
measure likelihood of X that may do Y.

So likelihood does not necessarily mean that it may not collide. So 'may' is required. IMO.
When you think you can or you cannot, you are generally correct.
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