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1000 SC # 55

by punitkaur » Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:53 am
According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.

(A) shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate
(B) shooting dead chickens at airplanes has proved itself helpful as a demonstration of
(C) shooting dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful as demonstrating
(D) that shoots dead chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful to demonstrate
(E) that shoots dead chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating

OA is E

Whats wrong with 'A' grammatically? Any explaination for OA?

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by mrupapara » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:29 am
According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon shooting de@d chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.

(A) shooting de@d chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate
(B) shooting de@d chickens at airplanes has proved itself helpful as a demonstration of
(C) shooting de@d chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful as demonstrating
(D) that shoots de@d chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful to demonstrate
(E) that shoots de@d chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating

OA is E

Whats wrong with 'A' grammatically? Any explaination for OA?




"Cannon that shoots" makes more sense, so A, B and C are out.

Between D and E, E is appropreate choice because of "in demonstrating" is better than "to demonstrate"

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by mrupapara » Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:30 am
According to United States Air Force officials, a cannon shooting de@d chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate what kind of damage can result when jets fly into a flock of large birds.

(A) shooting de@d chickens at airplanes has proved helpful to demonstrate
(B) shooting de@d chickens at airplanes has proved itself helpful as a demonstration of
(C) shooting de@d chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful as demonstrating
(D) that shoots de@d chickens at airplanes proves itself helpful to demonstrate
(E) that shoots de@d chickens at airplanes has proved helpful in demonstrating

OA is E

Whats wrong with 'A' grammatically? Any explaination for OA?




"Cannon that shoots" makes more sense, so A, B and C are out.

Between D and E, E is appropreate choice because of "in demonstrating" is better than "to demonstrate"