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by vaivish » Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:36 am
767. The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects, language variations which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated by geographic isolation.
(A) which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(B) that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(C) originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(D) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
(E) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating

Oa is D.

I want to know why B is wrong. Why are we prefering 'ing' form here. Pl Explain....
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by dileepsinha » Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:57 am
B is wrong beacause of parallelism...."originated from" is active, whille "perpetuated by" is passive...
For B to be correct, it should have been either "and were perpetuated by" or "that originated from......., perpetuated by......."
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