Sentence Correction

As sources of electrical power, windmills now account for only about 2,500 megawatts nationwide, but production is almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide enough electricity for 1.3 million households.

A. almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide
B. almost expected that it will double by the end of the year, thus providing
C. expected that it will almost double by the end of the year to provide
D. expected almost to double by the end of the year and thus to provide
E. expected almost to double by the end of the year, which would thus be providing

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almost expected is meaningless, and so is which referring back to year. So ABE out. I am not to happy choosing either of C or D, but split infinitive in D suggest me to go for C.

IMO D

vote for D

I am not able to understand " thus to provide " part in option D ....please explain on this

I feel D is the correct answer...

i hope that in D we deal with ||-ism issue
to double..and thus to provide

Bad question in my opinion. A,B,E are clearly out for reasons provided by maihuna.

Option C
production is expected that something will happen - Weird construction. Doesn't make any sense.

Option D

clock60 wrote:i hope that in D we deal with ||-ism issue
to double..and thus to provide

In D, the parallel elements are -
Production is expected almost
- to double by the end of the year
and thus
- to provide enough electricity for 1.3 million households.

Now frankly, production is expected to provide sounds crazy to me.

The use of almost is so strange in four choices. Ideally, it should limit double, in the sense that production is expected to almost double. Only choice C has that. However, the construction of C is weird, as outlined above.

aspirant2011 wrote:As sources of electrical power, windmills now account for only about 2,500 megawatts nationwide, but production is almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide enough electricity for 1.3 million households.

A. almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide
B. almost expected that it will double by the end of the year, thus providing
C. expected that it will almost double by the end of the year to provide
D. expected almost to double by the end of the year and thus to provide
E. expected almost to double by the end of the year, which would thus be providing

[spoiler]OA: Will be posted later. Please discuss each answer choice in detail[/spoiler]

IMO D

It seems to be an issue of parallelism.

Also, the usage expected that it will almost double seems to be awkward. Although the usage of expected that is tempting BUT the usage of IT creates a confusion

Production is expected that IT double by....
OR
Production is expected to double by...

Which one seems better?

OA given is D ........I am confused with the usage of "thus to provide" because though the same maintains parallelism but meaning of the sentence is not clear.........

aspirant2011 wrote:OA given is D ........I am confused with the usage of "thus to provide" because though the same maintains parallelism but meaning of the sentence is not clear.........

Why so? Doesn't it follow the Chronological Sequence.
NOW Windmil acct ONLY 2.5k MW -> BUT prod is expctd 2 dbl -> and thus 2 provide enuf elec...

As sources of electrical power, windmills now account for only about 2,500 megawatts nationwide, but production is expected almost to double by the end of the year and thus to provide enough electricity for 1.3 million households.
Expected to double and thus expected to provide enough.........

sameerballani wrote:

aspirant2011 wrote:As sources of electrical power, windmills now account for only about 2,500 megawatts nationwide, but production is almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide enough electricity for 1.3 million households.

A. almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide
B. almost expected that it will double by the end of the year, thus providing
C. expected that it will almost double by the end of the year to provide
D. expected almost to double by the end of the year and thus to provide
E. expected almost to double by the end of the year, which would thus be providing

[spoiler]OA: Will be posted later. Please discuss each answer choice in detail[/spoiler]

IMO D

It seems to be an issue of parallelism.

Also, the usage expected that it will almost double seems to be awkward. Although the usage of expected that is tempting BUT the usage of IT creates a confusion

Production is expected that IT double by....
OR
Production is expected to double by...

Which one seems better?

Hi Sameer,

in option C whats wrong with "it"???????? isn't this "it" refering to production

aspirant2011 wrote:

sameerballani wrote:

aspirant2011 wrote:As sources of electrical power, windmills now account for only about 2,500 megawatts nationwide, but production is almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide enough electricity for 1.3 million households.

A. almost expected to double by the end of the year, which would provide
B. almost expected that it will double by the end of the year, thus providing
C. expected that it will almost double by the end of the year to provide
D. expected almost to double by the end of the year and thus to provide
E. expected almost to double by the end of the year, which would thus be providing

[spoiler]OA: Will be posted later. Please discuss each answer choice in detail[/spoiler]

IMO D

It seems to be an issue of parallelism.

Also, the usage expected that it will almost double seems to be awkward. Although the usage of expected that is tempting BUT the usage of IT creates a confusion

Production is expected that IT double by....
OR
Production is expected to double by...

Which one seems better?

Hi Sameer,

in option C whats wrong with "it"???????? isn't this "it" refering to production

Hi,
It is trying to refer to production only but the point is that its not required and it results in awkwardness.

Just Listen how it sounds-
production is expected that it will almost double by the end of the year to provide
Also, I m not able to recall wat it is exactly, BUT there is some rule that when restating a subject in a relative clause, don't mention it as IT. Something like this..

More concise form could be: It is expected that production will... or Production is expected to double

I hope this helps

Thanks