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by drgmatIL » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:38 am
Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or “African sleeping sickness,” a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.
(A) are in danger of contracting
(B) are in danger to contract
(C) have a danger of contracting
(D) are endangered by contraction
(E) have a danger that they will contract


why B is wrong?

************ A *****************
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Re: African sleeping sickness

by duke » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:52 am
drgmatIL wrote:Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or “African sleeping sickness,” a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.
(A) are in danger of contracting
(B) are in danger to contract
(C) have a danger of contracting
(D) are endangered by contraction
(E) have a danger that they will contract


why B is wrong?

************ A *****************
Either "in danger of" or "endangered by". Here we have a name of disease right next to "contract". So I think A would be better than D.
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by bhar_rohit » Mon Sep 15, 2008 7:03 am
Danger to is not idiomatic .... "danger of is correct" .... and "dangerous to" is correct.
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by ddo » Mon Sep 15, 2008 9:12 am
should be A correct idiom is to be in danger of
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by GmatKiss » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:17 am
IMO: A
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by 1947 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:18 am
drgmatIL wrote:Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or �African sleeping sickness,� a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.
(A) are in danger of contracting
(B) are in danger to contract
(C) have a danger of contracting
(D) are endangered by contraction
(E) have a danger that they will contract


why B is wrong?

************ A *****************


between A and C will choose A though not sure why is C wrong
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by optimist » Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:39 am
I request experts/instructors to explain why is C incorrect.
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by optimist » Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:20 pm
@GMATGuruNY, @Stacey

could you please explain why is 'C' incorrect?
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by patanjali.purpose » Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:33 pm
optimist wrote:could you please explain why is 'C' incorrect?
IMO

"WE HAVE A DANGER" = we are possessing a danger (just like I HAVE A PEN).

The original sentence does not intend to say that Africans are possessing a danger

WE ARE IN DANGER = We are in trouble
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by neer.king » Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:47 am
Health officials estimate that 35 million Africans are in danger of contracting trypanosomiasis, or "African sleeping sickness," a parasitic disease spread by the bites of tsetse flies.
(A) are in danger of contracting
(B) are in danger to contract
(C) have a danger of contracting

I am not an expert but IMO A

B: non idiomatic (danger of)

A: is correct as it uses the correct present continuous tense.

C: wrong as it uses present perfect continuous tense ( refers to action that started in the past, rolls over to the present and still continuing but here the sentence refers to present tense only and does not state anywhere that Africans were in danger from the past)
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