Sentence Correction

Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone.

A. on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone
B. on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone
C. solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided
D. while the duplication of facilities should be avoided
E. if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided


OA: E

Can someone explain this one?

thank you so much!!

Building large new hospitals in the bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone.

A. on the basis of avoidance of duplicated facilities alone
B. on the grounds of avoiding duplicated facilities alone
C. solely in that duplicated facilities should be avoided
D. while the duplication of facilities should be avoided
E. if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided


This one is tricky until you realize that duplicated is the wrong word for the sentence and changes the meaning. The problem that they are outlining is not that the facilities are clones but that they are redundant. Between D and E the word while changes the meaning. You want to say building the facilities is bad BASED ON THE FACT THAT... The phrase If only because achieves that goal.

HG.

But i read somewhere that the use of "Should" is wrong in "IF" clause

Hi,

If can be used with should. If you can post the link or the article that you read that would be great. I am sure that there are times when the if/should combination is inappropriate because just as any other grammatical construction: it depends on what you are trying to express


HG.

The word "should" can appear in the "If clause", but the words "would" and "could" shouldn't appear in "If clause". Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thank you,
Vivek.

Hi Tommy,

That makes sense about the pasting of the examples. Just to clarify. Are you saying that the construction: If I should ..... I will..... is incorrect? Or just that the correctness of the tuxedo sentence depends on how likely it is that I will attend the party? And perhaps you're right that I should have chosen a more obvious example to express a low probability of the action actually occurring.

HG.