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by sanjib » Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:51 pm
South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations; church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing.(A) coming from conversions rather than the population increasing
(B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population
(C) coming from conversions instead of the population’s increasing
(D) is from conversions instead of population increases
(E) is from conversions rather than increasing the population

Need explanation please.
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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:27 am
IMO B.

South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations; church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing.

(A) coming from conversions rather than the population increasing
Conversions compared to increasing.

(B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population
Correct.

(C) coming from conversions instead of the population’s increasing
Conversions compared to increasing.

(D) is from conversions instead of population increases
Creates Run on sentence.....because of presence of definite verb "is"

(E) is from conversions rather than increasing the population
Creates Run on sentence.....because of presence of definite verb "is"
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by nitya34 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:36 am
yes B it is
parallelism
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Re: Growth is coming from / growth coming from

by rahulg83 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:50 am
sanjib wrote:South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations; church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing.(A) coming from conversions rather than the population increasing
(B) coming from conversions rather than increases in the population
(C) coming from conversions instead of the population’s increasing
(D) is from conversions instead of population increases
(E) is from conversions rather than increasing the population

Need explanation please.
B is the best choice..
A is not parallel X rather than Y
C X instead of Y, X and Y should be nouns..cross it off not preferable
D, E - sentence fragment main clauses separated by comma
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Re: Growth is coming from / growth coming from

by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:46 am
rahulg83 wrote:C X instead of Y, X and Y should be nouns..cross it off not preferable
Hi Rahul,

Can you please shed some light on this rule ?

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by perfectstranger » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:38 pm
goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO B.

South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations; church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing.


(D) is from conversions instead of population increases
Creates Run on sentence.....because of presence of definite verb "is"
Could you please explain ? Why did ''...is'' create run on sentence?
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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:43 pm
perfectstranger wrote:
goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO B.

South Korea has witnessed the world’s most dramatic growth of Christian congregations; church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth coming from conversions rather than the population increasing.


(D) is from conversions instead of population increases
Creates Run on sentence.....because of presence of definite verb "is"
Could you please explain ? Why did ''...is'' create run on sentence?
If we consider D...then the sentence becomes as below:

church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year, fully two-thirds of the growth is from conversions instead of population increases

The above sentence now consist of two fully independent clauses:

1. church membership is expanding by 6.6 percent a year.
2. two-thirds of the growth is from conversions instead of population increases.

Since both of them are complete independent sentence, so we need to have a coorinating conjuction like say and, but etc. etc....basically two independent clauses cannot be separated by just comma.
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