Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture

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Among the reasons for the decline of New England agriculture in the last three decades were the high cost of land, the pressure of housing and commercial development, and basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California.

A . basing a marketing and distribution system on importing produce from Florida and California
B . basing a marketing and distribution system on the imported produce of Florida and California
C . basing a system of marketing and distribution on the import of produce from Florida and California
D . a marketing and distribution system based on importing produce from Florida and California
E . a marketing and distribution system importing produce from Florida and California as its base
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by sumit.sinha » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:44 am
IMO D.
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by Dangerous Dude » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:45 am
Ans D...
Parallelism... Noun phrase....

A, B, C.. Participle phrase breaks the parallelism.. E changes meaning

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by novel » Wed Oct 20, 2010 4:40 am
Ans should be D

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