Sentence Correction

Nuclear fusion is the force that powers the Sun, the stars, and hydrogen bombs, merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors.
(A) merging the nuclei of atoms and not splitting them apart, as in nuclear reactors
(B) merging the nuclei of atoms instead of splitting them apart, like nuclear reactors
(C) merging the nuclei of atoms rather than splitting them apart, as nuclear reactors do
(D) and merges the nuclei of atoms but does not split them apart, as is done in nuclear reactors
(E) and merges the nuclei of atoms, unlike atomic reactors that split them apart

In the Q above I chose (E) , obviously wrong as it changed "nuclear reactors" to "atomic reactors".
However my doubt is , how come, "merging the nuclei of atoms rather than splitting them apart" do not modify "hydrogen bombs" which is a noun closest to it.

thanks,

anyone??

IMO C

IMO D

IMO D.....

IMO C
Whats OA?

The first part of the sentence is a modifying clause with a subject and a verb and therefore the merging the nuclei of atoms does not need to touch Nuclear fusion.

In case of modifying phrases without a subject modifying clause needs to touch the verb.

In order to make merging the nuclei of atoms a modifier for hydrogen bombs a which will be needed.

I hope it is clear now!

now "as" is used for comparison.
the only problem i see for option C is that "Nuclear fusion" is compared to "nuclear reactors".



Thanks!

Option E is correct because it uses parallelism in the sentence.
Other incorrectly compares fusion with the reactor.
Atomic reactor in option E doesn't changes the meaning as Nuclear reactor are of two types, fusion and fission. Fission are also called atomic reactors. Correct me if Im wrong.
Regards,

I would still go with 'E'.

The word 'like' (or 'unlike') allows you to compare dissimilar items (e.g. they looked like ghosts).
This allows us to compare Nuclear Fusion with an Atomic Reactor.

Also simply using the word 'merging' after the comma would be wrong IMO, because it should be 'by merging'.

Lastly, 'D' would be wrong because active type sentence is changed to passive type in 'as is done by nuclear reactors'.

OP - it is okay if nuclear reactors changes to atomic reactors.

What's the correct answer?

IMO D

what is OA?

sprony
PostPosted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: Re: SC OG 104 .. doubt on modifiers ..
I would still go with 'E'.

The word 'like' (or 'unlike') allows you to compare dissimilar items (e.g. they looked like ghosts).
This allows us to compare Nuclear Fusion with an Atomic Reactor.

Also simply using the word 'merging' after the comma would be wrong IMO, because it should be 'by merging'.

Lastly, 'D' would be wrong because active type sentence is changed to passive type in 'as is done by nuclear reactors'.

OP - it is okay if nuclear reactors changes to atomic reactors.

Leave alone atomic or nclear reactor . E cant be the correst answer .

Reason : Nuclear fusion is the subject and you are trying to compare it with nclear reactor. there is a wrong comparison. Nclear fission is a proces and c\nclear reactor is a apparatus.

The answer cannor be D either.

Reason : As should be followed by a clause . a clause should have a sbject and verb. and one more reason the latter part of the sentence is passive.

It has 2 be C.

Can someone answer the question of abhaypratapsingh ?
OA: C

IMO: C
As should be used when the sentence compares actions

OA is C