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by umaa » Sat May 16, 2009 7:11 am
Q 17. The network security team is responsible for detecting new viruses and the creation of software patches to block those viruses.

This sentence is wrong. Also, I'm confused with the explanation given. (I was thinking in different way). Can you please suggest me the correct sentence?

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by tdadic84 » Sat May 16, 2009 7:16 am
I am no expert...but I would write it like this:

The network security team is responsible for the detection of viruses and the creation of software patches to block those viruses.

Let me know if I am wrong.

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by umaa » Sat May 16, 2009 7:18 am
tdadic84, You're right. But what is wrong with the below sentence:

The network security team is responsible for detecting viruses and creating software patches to block those viruses.

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by tdadic84 » Sat May 16, 2009 12:37 pm
The network security team is responsible for detecting viruses and FOR creating software patches to block those viruses.

all i could come up with.

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by rahulg83 » Sat May 16, 2009 10:14 pm
The network security team is responsible for detecting viruses and FOR creating software patches to block those viruses.


I was also thinking on same terms...

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by chetanojha » Sun May 17, 2009 12:45 am
The network security team is responsible for two things i.e.

1.for detecting viruses
2.for creating software patches

Here For X and For Y is used where x must be parallel to y.