'Based on' vs 'n ing modifier without a coma'.!!!

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by [email protected] » Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:15 pm

Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land, the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.

[A] basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California

basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California

[C] basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California

[D] a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California

[E] a marketing and distribution system importing produce from Florida and California as its base

I came down to D and E and chose E.

But the OA is D. Can any of the experts help in this. According to me D and E, both deliver the meaning but according to me a system based on something is more wordy than the system itself importing produce.

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Mon Nov 26, 2012 11:19 pm

D and E are the only ones that maintain parallel form in the list of reasons.

In E, it's not the marketing and distribution system that is directly importing produce. The act of importing produce allows the marketing and distribution to work, and this is more clear in D.

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