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parallelism..how?

by warlock » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:17 am
Environmental scientists have been careful to point out that the pollution of estuaries has various causes, including seepage from septic fields, overuse of waterways by boats lacking proper waste disposal facilities, spraying indiscriminate pesticides by farmers, and inadequate protection of the water table.


a) spraying indiscriminate pesticides by farmers

b) the indiscriminate spraying of pesticides by farmers

c) pesticides which are sprayed by farmers indiscriminately

d) pesticides being sprayed in indiscriminate amounts by farmers

e) farmers who spray pesticides indiscriminately
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by sunisshining » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:59 am
Isn't this question easy? My choice is B, noun form should carry on in all parts in parallel...
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by warlock » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:16 pm
sunisshining wrote:Isn't this question easy? My choice is B, noun form should carry on in all parts in parallel...
OA: option B.
Could you elaborate the explanation.

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by NSNguyen » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:28 am
B express parallelism noun phrases...
Please share your idea and your reasoning :D
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by sunisshining » Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:51 am
"seepage from septic fields", "overuse of waterways... " and "inadequate protection..." are noun phrases, so the correct noun usage of spraying of indiscriminate pesticides is expressed in choice B. In question the phrase is used as verb and should be corrected to noun usage...
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