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by pappueshwar » Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:26 am
Rules banning cancer-causing substances from food apply to new food additives and not to natural constituents of food because their use as additives is entirely avoidable?

(A) their use as additives is
(B) as additives, their use is
(C) the use of such additives is
(D) the use of such additives are
(E) the use of them as additives is
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by kul512 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 6:05 pm
Given the option, its better to use noun in place of pronoun. By this simple rule C and D are better than A,B,and E. Again D is using wrong Subject-verb agreement, so C is the correct answer.

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by killer1387 » Fri Mar 02, 2012 9:57 pm
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by GmatKiss » Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:34 am
pappueshwar wrote:Rules banning cancer-causing substances from food apply to new food additives and not to natural constituents of food because their use as additives is entirely avoidable?

(A) their use as additives is
(B) as additives, their use is - awkward
(C) the use of such additives is
(D) the use of such additives are
(E) the use of them as additives is
IMO: C
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