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by vishalwin » Sun Nov 15, 2015 10:08 pm
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cows will produce
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by vishalwin » Sat Nov 21, 2015 12:06 pm
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by DavidG@VeritasPrep » Sat Nov 21, 2015 2:17 pm
An older thread discussing this problem: https://www.beatthegmat.com/holstein-cows-t282583.html

(And there is no general rule dictating that "provided with" is better than "providing them." Such a choice will depend on the context of the sentence.)
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