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by [email protected] » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:01 am
Scientists predict that the next large hurricane to strike the Gulf coast will have unimaginably catastrophic results, including a total breakdown of the levee system, infiltration and contamination of the Mississippi River by salt water, permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying New Orleans' wetlands.

Choices

A permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying

B causing permanent alterations to the coastline, and completely destroying

C altering the coastline permanently from its current form, and complete destruction of

D permanent alterations to the coastline, and complete destruction of

E permanent alterations to the coastline's form, and complete destruction in

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by Birottam Dutta » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:20 am
Scientists predict that the next large hurricane to strike the Gulf coast will have unimaginably catastrophic results, including a total breakdown of the levee system, infiltration and contamination of the Mississippi River by salt water, permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying New Orleans' wetlands.

Choices

A permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying

B causing permanent alterations to the coastline, and completely destroying

C altering the coastline permanently from its current form, and complete destruction of

D permanent alterations to the coastline, and complete destruction of

E permanent alterations to the coastline's form, and complete destruction in

D is correct.

A, B and C are incorrect because of parallelism error. Since we have total breakdown of the levee system and infiltration and contamination of the Mississippi River by salt water, so we cannot select the options which have words that end with "ing".

Hope this is the correct answer!
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by shubhamkumar » Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:36 am
[email protected] wrote:Scientists predict that the next large hurricane to strike the Gulf coast will have unimaginably catastrophic results, including a total breakdown of the levee system, infiltration and contamination of the Mississippi River by salt water, permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying New Orleans' wetlands.

Choices

A permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying parallelism

B causing permanent alterations to the coastline, and completely destroying parallelism

C altering the coastline permanently from its current form, and complete destruction of parallelism

D permanent alterations to the coastline, and complete destruction of Correct

E permanent alterations to the coastline's form, and complete destruction in

alterations to the coastline's form is redundant.complete destruction in is grammatically clear but the Original sentence mentions complete destruction of the wetlands not destruction in.

OA after discussion
IMO D.what is OA?
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by GmatKiss » Sun Apr 22, 2012 10:50 pm
Scientists predict that the next large hurricane to strike the Gulf coast will have unimaginably catastrophic results, including a total breakdown of the levee system, infiltration and contamination of the Mississippi River by salt water, permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying New Orleans' wetlands.

A permanently altering the coastline and completely destroying

B causing permanent alterations to the coastline, and completely destroying

C altering the coastline permanently from its current form, and complete destruction of

D permanent alterations to the coastline, and complete destruction of

E permanent alterations to the coastline's form, and complete destruction in

IMO: D
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:16 am
+1 for D.
Regards,

Pranay
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by [email protected] » Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:44 am
OA is indeed D
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