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by jain2016 » Sat Feb 27, 2016 10:20 am
The root systems of most flowering perennials either become too crowded, which results in loss in vigor, and spread too far outward, producing a bare center.

A) which results in loss in vigor, and spread

B) resulting in loss in vigor, or spreading

C) with the result of loss of vigor, or spreading

D) resulting in loss of vigor, or spread

E) with a resulting loss of vigor, and spread

OAD

Hi Experts ,

I got this one right, but I still have doubt in this.

Doubt -- OptionC can eliminate because of parallelism . So can we also eliminate this option because of COMMA+with construction? If yes or no please explain.

Many thanks in advance.

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by bonetlobo » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:29 am
I would agree, because C has the following structure:

The root systems of most flowering perennials either become too crowded, with the result of loss of vigor, or spreading too far outward, producing a bare center.

So,

The root systems of most flowering perennials either become too crowded or spreading too far outward

Hence, The root systems of most flowering perennials spreading too far outward

This is not correct. It should have been "spread":

The root systems of most flowering perennials spread too far outward
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by jain2016 » Sun Feb 28, 2016 9:29 pm
Hi Experts ,

Your thoughts on this.

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by danielle07 » Sun Sep 03, 2017 3:32 am
Letter C isn't the correct answer because the progressive tense shouldn't be on spreading but in resulting which makes the statement correct. So the answer is letter D
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by richachampion » Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:43 am
jain2016 wrote:The root systems of most flowering perennials either become too crowded, which results in loss in vigor, and spread too far outward, producing a bare center.

A) which results in loss in vigor, and spread

B) resulting in loss in vigor, or spreading

C) with the result of loss of vigor, or spreading

D) resulting in loss of vigor, or spread

E) with a resulting loss of vigor, and spread

OAD

Hi Experts ,

I got this one right, but I still have doubt in this.

Doubt -- OptionC can eliminate because of parallelism . So can we also eliminate this option because of COMMA+with construction? If yes or no please explain.

Many thanks in advance.

SJ
generally, comma + with modifies the action(Subject + Verb) of the preceding clause.

Cause and effect: that means X happens first and then Y happens. In our question also crowding of root system results in____

That means crowding happens first.

But with the introduction of "comma + with" it conveys the meaning that :
the result of the loss of vigor and crowding happens together(Not one as a result of the other).
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