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by sivaelectric » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:32 am
Smelling of rotten eggs, sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from sulfur and oxygen, two of the major elements consumed in coal smelting, react with each other.
  • A. sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from
    B. sulfur dioxide is created when
    C. sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks, and when
    D. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks when
    E. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks from
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by Ozlemg » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:36 am
IMO C

For me, "is" and "when" are missing words
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by sivaelectric » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:37 am
Sorry this is supposed to be a sentence correction questions :( wrong forum
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by abhi0697 » Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:05 pm
IMO D, "when" is the correct usage here. between B and D, I will go with "formed" rather than "created" in this sentence
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by hardikm » Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:18 pm
D,E is incorrect as it forms fragments
A is incorrect, wrong idiom from ... and...
C is incorrect,
IMO B : But it drops out some info so not a strong contender but no other choices are good enough and grammatically correct.
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by sivaelectric » Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:06 pm
OA B, though its missing some words out, its the only one with the correct grammar construction. It connects the first and the last so well. :)
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by cans » Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:54 pm
'when' should be used instead of from. eliminating a,e
c) incorrect because of 'and'
doubt between B&D but 'is' is missing in D
Thus IMO B
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by HSPA » Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:30 pm
I think I am reading from school that sulfer and oxygen combine to "form" sulpherdioxide. 'Creation' is like hurting me here.
Smelling of rotten eggs == Sulferdioxide.. this is ackward...

Can you kindly ping Brian@Veritas for this as you mentioned the source is Veritas... I am doubting this question.
sivaelectric wrote:Smelling of rotten eggs, sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from sulfur and oxygen, two of the major elements consumed in coal smelting, react with each other.
  • A. sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from
    B. sulfur dioxide is created when
    C. sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks, and when
    D. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks when
    E. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks from
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by aftableo2006 » Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:44 am
B is the correct answer but there are some typo errors
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by sivaelectric » Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:31 am
There is not a typo. This is what is mentioned in the material. Even I had the same doubt.
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by aspirant2011 » Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:28 am
HSPA wrote:I think I am reading from school that sulfer and oxygen combine to "form" sulpherdioxide. 'Creation' is like hurting me here.
Smelling of rotten eggs == Sulferdioxide.. this is ackward...

Can you kindly ping Brian@Veritas for this as you mentioned the source is Veritas... I am doubting this question.
sivaelectric wrote:Smelling of rotten eggs, sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from sulfur and oxygen, two of the major elements consumed in coal smelting, react with each other.
  • A. sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from
    B. sulfur dioxide is created when
    C. sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks, and when
    D. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks when
    E. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks from
agree with you,when I first went through option B, I kept it aside because of the word "created"
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by sanabk » Thu Jun 02, 2011 2:46 pm
Is it ok to omit "formed in smokestacks" in answer choice B???
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by aspirant2011 » Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:49 am
sanabk wrote:Is it ok to omit "formed in smokestacks" in answer choice B???
in option B where is "formed in smokestacks"????????[/b]
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by sameerballani » Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:50 pm
What's the issue in case created is used in place of formed.
We can eliminate all the other options because of some or the other reason.
And even using created doesn't change the meaning of the sentence, therefore i feel there should not be any problem using it.
Can we have expert comments please.

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by aspirant2011 » Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:44 am
sameerballani wrote:What's the issue in case created is used in place of formed.
We can eliminate all the other options because of some or the other reason.
And even using created doesn't change the meaning of the sentence, therefore i feel there should not be any problem using it.
Can we have expert comments please.

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Hi Sameer,

Can you please explain why exactly is D wrong,though I feel that if in D preposition "is" would have been there then it would have been the best choice out of 5 but now also whats exactly wrong with option D.....

Smelling of rotten eggs, sulfur dioxide is formed in smokestacks from sulfur and oxygen, two of the major elements consumed in coal smelting, react with each other.

D. sulfur dioxide, formed in smokestacks when

I think above part in Green is acting as a modifier and modifies sulfur dioxide.............somebody in the above post mentioned that D is having fragments and is therefore, wrong but I am confused on the same as I don't find any issue related to the fragmentization..........
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