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by heshamelaziry » Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:07 pm
If the patterns predicted by climate models are correct about melting glaciers, by the year 2025 the tides around Greenland's east coast will rise to a level more than two feet higher than were those in 2000, according to the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment's 1990 report.


A)will rise to a level more than two feet higher than were those

B)will rise to a level more than two feet higher than that

C)would rise to a level more than two feet higher than it was

D)would rise to a level more than two feet higher than those

E)would rise to a level more than two feet higher than they were


OA [spoiler]B. Why not use "would" ? I know there is a prediction, but this conditional and not confirmed, so why use will ? Can you guys clear this "would" vs "will" issue.
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by Ludacrispat26 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:18 pm
If you ever have an "if...then" situation, you need to use the future tense.

Examples:

John would have gone to the movies if Mark went.

If Mark goes to the movies, John will go as well.
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by Ludacrispat26 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:20 pm
Also, here's the OE from Knewton:
The original sentence displays a comparison error and a pronoun-antecedent agreement error.

The level, a singular noun, is being compared with those, a plural pronoun. When two items are linked in a comparison, that must refer to singular items and those must refer to plural items. Additionally, the verb were is incorrectly used; the heights of levels are compared, not the rise, the verb used in the comparison.

Choice B fixes both errors without introducing additional ones. The verb is eliminated and the plural those is changed to the singular that, which logically refers to level.

The other options introduce errors.

The use of the verb will in the original must be preserved. Choices C, D, and E replace will with would. In an if...then situation in which the condition is in the present, here if patterns are correct, the outcome must be in the future.

The correct answer is B.
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by brick2009 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:46 pm
let me try:

You use WILL.. for a Future event and you are assuming that event to be true.. hence it is a REAL event..

You use would.. For an event that has occurred in the recent past, and th eevent is not TRUE..so you are expressive what you would have done ..if the event was true... (contrary to reality..as the event is Not True)

In this case.. IF the predictions are correct, the tides will rise..
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by vijay_venky » Mon Nov 16, 2009 2:54 am
There is a particular pattern that should be followed when we use the conditional statement if,

if<simple present> (then)will/can<base verb>
if<simple past> (then)would/could<base verb>
if<past perfect> (then)would/could+have+<past participle>

this problem comes in to the first form of usage.
And "were those" in the question is wrong as we talk about the rise which is singular, so I think B is apt.
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