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?

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

Source OG 11

[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?

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


Source OG 11

[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?