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by GmatKiss » Tue May 15, 2012 12:17 pm
In spite of continuing national trends toward increased consumption of specialty foods, agronomists in the Midwest foresee a gradual reversion to the raising of agricultural staples: feed corn and hard red wheat.

  (A) a gradual reversion to the raising of agricultural staples

  (B) that a gradual reversion back will feature the raising of agricultural staples

  (C) a gradual reversion back to the raising of agricultural staples again

  (D) a gradual reversion to raise agricultural staples

  (E) a gradual reversion into the raising of agricultural staples
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by gmatblood » Tue May 15, 2012 12:40 pm
IMO: D

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by veenitj » Tue May 15, 2012 12:49 pm
A - raising of agricultural staples - is not right
B - that and raising - is not right
C - reversion back - back is same as reversion
E - into the raising - is not correct usage.

Hence answer is D.

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by alex.gellatly » Tue May 15, 2012 6:44 pm
Another for D. What's the OA?

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue May 15, 2012 7:04 pm
"Reversion back" is redundant, so we can get rid of B and C.

"Reversion into" in E is unidiomatic; the correct expression is "reversion to" (as in "reversion to the mean")

A and C both have "reversion to," but C is incorrect. Why? Because the "to" is part of the infinitive "to raise", so we have "reversion" on its own, which doesn't work.

A works: "(reversion to) the raising..." (where "raising" is a gerund)
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by ice_rush » Tue May 15, 2012 7:07 pm
my vote is for (A)...(D) changes the meaning.


What's the OA?

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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Wed May 16, 2012 1:39 am
+1 for D

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