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by sivaelectric » Sun May 29, 2011 11:37 am
Every region faces it potential disasters, tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South, earthquakes along the West Coast, and killer blizzards wrack the East Coast.
  • A. tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South, earthquakes along the West Coast
    B. the Midwest' tornadoes, the South' hurricanes, the West Coast' earthquakes
    C. tornadoes trouble the Midwest, hurricanes plague the South, earthquakes disturb the West Coast
    D. the Midwestern tornadoes, Southern hurricanes, earthquakes along the West coast
    E. tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the Midwest, South, and West Coast

    OA C

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by sameerballani » Sun May 29, 2011 12:19 pm
sivaelectric wrote:Every region faces it potential disasters, tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South, earthquakes along the West Coast, and killer blizzards wrack the East Coast.
  • A. tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South, earthquakes along the West Coast
    B. the Midwest' tornadoes, the South' hurricanes, the West Coast' earthquakes
    C. tornadoes trouble the Midwest, hurricanes plague the South, earthquake disturb the West Coast
    D. the Midwestern tornadoes, Southern hurricanes, earthquakes along the West coast
    E. tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the Midwest, South, and West Coast

    OA C
This seems to be a different Question ! Whats the source?
Anyways to answer this u need to concentrate on killer blizzards wrack the East Coast which is non underlined. So we need to choose that options which sets other disaster parallel to this. That is in option C

killer blizzards wrack the East Coast should be
killer blizzards along the East Coast if required to set as per option A
the East coast' blizzards if required to set as per option B
D option in itself is incorrect because the elements in the list within are not parallel.
E same for E. Cannot be made parallel to non-unerlined part.

C) tornadoes trouble the Midwest || hurricanes plague the South || earthquake disturb the West Coast || blizzards wrack the East Coast

What's the source?

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by rohu27 » Sun May 29, 2011 8:28 pm
Weird question..
Source plz?
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by sivaelectric » Sun May 29, 2011 8:30 pm
rohu27 wrote:Weird question..
Source plz?
:) Why do you think its weird?
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by itsmebharat » Mon May 30, 2011 12:19 am
Not weird, I would say but tricky one... IMO C, clearly looking at the "killer blizzards wrack the East Coast. " will help to eliminate other options
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by viv_gmat » Mon May 30, 2011 4:44 am
I agree with sameer...Perfect explanation..
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by g.shankaran » Mon May 30, 2011 6:11 am
sivaelectric wrote:Every region faces it potential disasters, tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South, earthquakes along the West Coast, and killer blizzards wrack the East Coast.
  • A. tornadoes in the Midwest, hurricanes in the South, earthquakes along the West Coast
    B. the Midwest' tornadoes, the South' hurricanes, the West Coast' earthquakes
    C. tornadoes trouble the Midwest, hurricanes plague the South, earthquake disturb the West Coast
    D. the Midwestern tornadoes, Southern hurricanes, earthquakes along the West coast
    E. tornadoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes in the Midwest, South, and West Coast

    OA C
I thought it was A.

I have eliminated C thinking that it doesn't agree in Subject-Verb number. Please correct me If I am wrong.
C tornadoes trouble the Midwest, hurricanes plague the South, earthquake disturb the West
Coast

"earthquakes disturb" vs "earthquake disturb"
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by kruthika » Tue May 31, 2011 11:43 pm
Like g.shankaran has posted, in option C, Subject-Verb agreement flaw is evident. Considering this, the best option that I can see is A.

Can anyone give expert opinion?

'earthquake disturb' ????

Doesnt sound right to me!
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by champmag » Tue May 31, 2011 11:45 pm
IMO:C

C is the best Op that maintains the parallel structure ofthe sentence.
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by sivaelectric » Tue May 31, 2011 11:51 pm
Hey Kruthika, g.shankaran sorry it may be a typo. It should be Earthquakes. My bad :( and as champmag said C is the only option maintains the parallel structure. :)
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by aftableo2006 » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:18 am
C is the correct answer but there is a tipo error which is creating confusion C is the only option which maintains conyinuity of the parallel structure
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