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by hmboy17 » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:21 pm
All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

OA D Why A is wrong.
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by money9111 » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:31 pm
I'm not sure why A is wrong because that's the one I chose, but I don't understand why D is correct... i think it may have something to do with But...And, but I'm not so sure...
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by neelimareddym » Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:35 pm
hmboy17 wrote:All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

OA D Why A is wrong.
IMO D..
Unlike "hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, "hunderds of deaths and thousands of injuries" follows parallelism.
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by kaulnikhil » Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:46 pm
hmboy17 wrote:All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

OA D Why A is wrong.
been blamed for causing
A.
hundreds of deaths,
B.
injury to thousands, and
C.seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.
causing hundreds of deaths
causing thousands of injuries
both make sense
Does causing "seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas". make sense ???
If it makes the A is right . If it doesn't then you cant group Causing with "seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas."
HENCE we need to group hundreds of deaths and injury to thousands with causing . and doing with serious damage to
Also notice that causing and doing is parallel
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by komal » Wed Feb 17, 2010 10:14 am
hmboy17 wrote:All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging - Parallelism Error

(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to - Parallelism Error

(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging - Awkward

(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to - Correct

(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to - Wordy
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by analyst218 » Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:18 pm
causing, ..ing, and damaging

or

causing deaths and injuries, and damaging
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by iongmat » Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:37 am
kaulnikhil wrote:
hmboy17 wrote:All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

OA D Why A is wrong.
been blamed for causing
A.
hundreds of deaths,
B.
injury to thousands, and
C.seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.
causing hundreds of deaths
causing thousands of injuries
both make sense
Does causing "seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas". make sense ???
If it makes the A is right . If it doesn't then you cant group Causing with "seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas."
HENCE we need to group hundreds of deaths and injury to thousands with causing . and doing with serious damage to
Also notice that causing and doing is parallel
But what about if A is split as:

they have also been blamed for
a) causing hundreds of deaths,
b) injury to thousands, and
c) seriously damaging the nations recreational areas.

This seems correct, since all the three are noun phrases. So, why is A not correct?
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by The Iceman » Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:33 pm
hmboy17 wrote:All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

OA D Why A is wrong.
A is wrong because the list items are not in parallel.

Before the underlined portion we have "for causing hundreds of". In option A we cannot use 'seriously damaging' other wise it will look like 'causing hundreds of deaths seriously damaging...". In essence we need a noun and not a verb.

Also note that when we have a list of more than two parallel items separated by commas then only the last item is preceded with ', and'.

For this reason

Another way to write this kind of sentence with items would be 'x and y, as well as z' with x and y being the more strongly correlated items among a list of these three items. Only option D uses this correctly.
D can be seen as:
causing hundreds of deaths and causing thousands of injuries, as well as 'doing serious damage to'

So it satisfies our structure.
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by iongmat » Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:39 am
The Iceman wrote: Before the underlined portion we have "for causing hundreds of". In option A we cannot use 'seriously damaging' other wise it will look like 'causing hundreds of deaths seriously damaging...".
Not sure if you read my post above. A can be interpreted as:

they have also been blamed for
a) causing hundreds of deaths,
b) injury to thousands, and
c) seriously damaging the nations recreational areas.

So, it will look like: "..for seriously damaging the nations recreational areas".
The Iceman wrote: In essence we need a noun and not a verb.
Again not true. "for seriously damaging.." is a noun (gerund) and not a verb.
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