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by Jatinder » Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:39 am
Modern inventions such as the pneumatic drill
may seem to have improved the work conditions
of manual laborers, but in fact, have increased
the incidence of health hazards such as silicosis
because it has aggravated the dust hazard

involved in excavation and demolition.

(A) have increased the incidence of health
hazards such as silicosis because it has
aggravated the dust hazard
(B) has increased the incidence of health
hazards such as silicosis because it has
aggravated the dust hazard
(C) have increased the incidence of health
hazards such as silicosis because they
have aggravated the dust hazard
(D) increased the incidence of health hazards
such as silicosis because they aggravated
the dust hazard
(E) increased the incidence of health hazards
such as silicosis because of aggravating
the dust hazard

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by niraj_a » Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:47 am
i choose A, between A and C.

we need a 'have' here to begin the underlined sentence to maintain the verb construction. as for the 'it' later in the sentence, the it is meant to refer to the pneumatic drill, not the inventions, so it should be appropriate since drill is singular.

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by vivek.kapoor83 » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:01 am
IMO C...
have....coz of modern inventions and 'they'refer to modern inventions , not drills..
SO C

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by stop@800 » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:09 am
IMO also C

OA please

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Re: Modern Inventions_Kaplan

by iamcste » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:19 am
Jatinder wrote:Modern inventions such as the pneumatic drill
may seem to have improved the work conditions
of manual laborers, but in fact, have increased
the incidence of health hazards such as silicosis
because it has aggravated the dust hazard

involved in excavation and demolition.

(A) have increased the incidence of health
hazards such as silicosis because it has
aggravated the dust hazard


it singular pronoun refers to the plural antecedent "Modern inventions"

(B) has increased the incidence of health
hazards such as silicosis because it has
aggravated the dust hazard


SV..Plural subject modern inventions to singular verb has

(C) have increased the incidence of health
hazards such as silicosis because they
have aggravated the dust hazard


Correct agreement and pronoun mapped correctly to antecendent

(D) increased the incidence of health hazards
such as silicosis because they aggravated
the dust hazard

Incorrect tense...Tense should be present perfect...

(E) increased the incidence of health hazards
such as silicosis because of aggravating
the dust hazard

Incorrect tense...Tense should be present perfect...


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by mals24 » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:24 am
IMO C

'Have' and 'it' refer to the same noun modern inventions, hence both should be plural.

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by Bidisha800 » Sun Nov 09, 2008 3:04 pm
(C)
Drill baby drill !

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by Jatinder » Sun Nov 09, 2008 8:05 pm
OA is C

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by nervesofsteel » Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:14 am
Though C is the best

can someone explain if "THEY" can refer to WORKERS also instead of Modern inventions

it will be a pronoun reference error

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