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by ska7945 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:59 am
3．The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents， weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had anticipated.
（A）weather conditions that could not be foreseen，and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had
（B）weather conditions that cannot be foreseen， and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than
（C）unforeseeable weather conditions， and pilot errors are the cause of much larger deposits of spray than they had
（D）weather conditions that are not foreseeable，and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than
（E）unforeseeable weather conditions， and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had

answer B

accident-noun
unforeseeable weather conditions-noun
pilot errors-noun
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by gmatmachoman » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:19 am
ska7945 wrote:3．The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents， weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had anticipated.
（A）weather conditions that could not be foreseen，and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had
（B）weather conditions that cannot be foreseen， and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than
（C）unforeseeable weather conditions， and pilot errors are the cause of much larger deposits of spray than they had
（D）weather conditions that are not foreseeable，and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than
（E）unforeseeable weather conditions， and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had

answer B

Answer is B
Reason: IF u gonna Zero down to option B or E,I call for Option B .Becoz in B it logically includes" accidents and weather that are both unseen,where as in option E it handles only the weather conditions and leaves the "accident "part untouched.


accident-noun
unforeseeable weather conditions-noun
pilot errors-noun
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by Vignesh.4384 » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:20 am
ska7945,

U can eliminate option A , C and E because these options contain the word they . Who does they refer 2 ?? Nobody .. thats why i guess E got eliminated.

Between B and D even i am confused ... :x
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by Suyog » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:31 am
pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, weather conditions that cannot be foreseen
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by NSNguyen » Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:28 am
I am in between B and D,
Who know why D is wrong? I have tried to find out why D is wrong
Do "that" is redundancy in choice D?
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by logitech » Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:27 pm
What makes D wrong ?
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by logitech » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:36 pm
A,C,E - incorrect - ambiguous they

D - incorrect - foreseeable is an adjective and cannot be used as the object of a sentence
I still need a better explanation for D.
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by nervesofsteel » Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:40 am
IMO B

use of "foreseeable" in place of foreseen is awkward
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parallelism??

by krishnakumarhod » Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:01 am
The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned,
but accidents-->Noun
weather conditions that are not foreseeable，and -->Seems like a verb expression
pilot errors -->Noun

often cause much larger deposits of spray than

//lism i think.Please correct me if i have done the above wrongly

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by Uri » Sun Feb 15, 2009 5:21 am
Even after all the above discussion, I am afraid, I can not eliminate (D). Can someone provide a little more explanation???
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by radhaswami » Mon Feb 16, 2009 9:51 pm
As Suyog already mentioned before that in the original question stem the wrod is can are is 100% sure
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by rahulakacyrus » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:36 pm
According to Manhattan SC, we use "HAD" only when necessary.
It indicated past perfect form.

Here, HAD is not required at all.

So it comes down between B and D.

but accidents...cannot be foreseen..Is logical construction.

IMO: B
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by jeevan.Gk » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:56 pm

I still need a better explanation for D.
Parallelism ..
B --noun, noun, noun
E -- noun,noun with adjective, noun..

So you can decide which is better option.
Afterall we have to choose the best option not perfect option.
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by deepoe » Tue Feb 17, 2009 12:56 pm
I hesitated between B and D, but don't really know why D is incorrect :S
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