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The International Space Station

by YellowSapphire » Sat Jan 08, 2011 9:08 am
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The International Space Station recently received two new solar panels, the largest solar arrays ever constructed, which would be increasing the space station's power fivefold, and are essential to further station science experiments and will reflect enough light back to Earth to make the space station one of the brightest objects in the night sky.

A. which would be increasing the space station's power fivefold, and are essential to further science experiments and will reflect enough light back to Earth
B. which will increase the space station's power fivefold, are essential to further science experiments, and will reflect enough light back to Earth *
C. so that the space station's power is increasing fivefold and this is essential to further science experiments and then they will reflect enough light back to Earth
D. scientists say will increase the space station's power fivefold and will be essential to further science experiments, and it will happen that they reflect enough light back to Earth
E. causing there to be a fivefold increase in power at the space station, and more science experiments, and also causing enough light to be reflected back to Earth

I don't think any of the answer is correct.

What is your opinion?
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by prachich1987 » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:08 am
IMO : B
B is the best of all five.
I would be grateful, if while posting questions from Veritas, you remove the "*" beside the correct answer.
It will help the reader to reach the answer without getting any clue.

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by YellowSapphire » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:41 am
prachich1987 wrote:IMO : B
B is the best of all five.
I would be grateful, if while posting questions from Veritas, you remove the "*" beside the correct answer.
It will help the reader to reach the answer without getting any clue.
Unlike THAT, WHICH refers to immediately preecing noun or noun phrase even previous one is non-essential modifire.

How can we say that WHICH refers to solar panels?
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by prachich1987 » Sat Jan 08, 2011 10:44 am
I would be grateful if experts can reply on above

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by lunarpower » Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:03 am
well -- i agree that the authors of this problem are playing fast and loose with the "which" modifier.

as far as i know, i haven't seen any official evidence that either confirms or refutes the legitimacy of this construction -- i.e., i don't recall ever seeing NOUN, (appositive modifier), WHICH... in an official problem.
so, for now, i can't really judge the correctness of this construction.

the rest of that choice, though, contains good parallelism between the 3 expressions starting with verbs.
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