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by reply2spg » Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:33 pm
Canadian scientists have calculated that one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite, while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.

(A) one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite

(B) a human being should be struck by a meteorite once in every nine years

(C) a meteorite will strike one human being once in every nine years

(D) every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite

(E) every nine years a human being should be struck by a meteorite

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[spoiler]Can I tackle this question as a parallelism question. It is in following way.

I can easily eliminate A, B and C based on usage of 'should be'. However, between D and E, I changed the question as follows.
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Canadian scientists have calculated that each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain and every nine years a human being will be struck Is this approach correct?
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by reply2spg » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:25 pm
Can any respected instructor take a time to explain my query here? Thanks in advance
reply2spg wrote:Canadian scientists have calculated that one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite, while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.

(A) one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite

(B) a human being should be struck by a meteorite once in every nine years

(C) a meteorite will strike one human being once in every nine years

(D) every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite

(E) every nine years a human being should be struck by a meteorite

OA D

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[spoiler]Can I tackle this question as a parallelism question. It is in following way.

I can easily eliminate A, B and D based on usage of 'should be'. However, between C and E, I changed the question as follows.
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Canadian scientists have calculated that each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain and every nine years a human being will be struck Is this approach correct?
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by tomada » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:33 pm
reply2spg wrote:Can any respected instructor take a time to explain my query here? Thanks in advance
reply2spg wrote:Canadian scientists have calculated that one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite, while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.

(A) one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite

(B) a human being should be struck by a meteorite once in every nine years

(C) a meteorite will strike one human being once in every nine years

(D) every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite

(E) every nine years a human being should be struck by a meteorite

OA D

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[spoiler]Can I tackle this question as a parallelism question. It is in following way.

I can easily eliminate A, B and D based on usage of 'should be'. However, between C and E, I changed the question as follows.
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Canadian scientists have calculated that each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain and every nine years a human being will be struck Is this approach correct?
I'm not respected, but I am wondering how you eliminated choice 'D' on the basis of "should be".
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by reply2spg » Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:57 pm
Sorry I have updated the post
reply2spg wrote:Canadian scientists have calculated that one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite, while each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain damage from such objects.

(A) one human being should be struck every nine years by a meteorite

(B) a human being should be struck by a meteorite once in every nine years

(C) a meteorite will strike one human being once in every nine years

(D) every nine years a human being will be struck by a meteorite

(E) every nine years a human being should be struck by a meteorite

OA D


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[spoiler]Can I tackle this question as a parallelism question. It is in following way.

I can easily eliminate A, B and C based on usage of 'should be'. However, between D and E, I changed the question as follows.
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Canadian scientists have calculated that each year sixteen buildings can be expected to sustain and every nine years a human being will be struck Is this approach correct?
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by fukushima.ryan » Thu Jul 15, 2010 2:14 pm
My approach was slightly different.

The meaning of "...a human being should be struck..." is not correct. Should humans be struck or will they be struck? These are two different questions.

I eliminated all answers with "...Should be" (eliminate ABE)

C and D were tricky because they are inverted. I chose to keep the answer in parallel with 2nd half of the sentence. Therefore, chose answer D.
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by fitzgerald23 » Thu Jul 15, 2010 3:01 pm
Eliminate A, B, & E because of use of the word should.

D is concise, while C is either using redundant words or changes the meaning by indicating that a specific human will be struck once every nine years.
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