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ansh.kumar: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 108; Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:20 am; Thanked: 2 times

by ansh.kumar » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:08 am

275. El Nino, the periodic abnormal warming of the sea surface off Peru, a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine allowing the warm water that has accumulated in the western Pacific to flow back to the east.
(A) a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine allowing the warm water that has accumulated
(B) a phenomenon where changes in the ocean and atmosphere are combining to allow the warm water that is accumulating
(C) a phenomenon in which ocean and atmosphere changes combine and which allows the warm water that is accumulated
(D) is a phenomenon in which changes in the ocean and atmosphere combine to allow the warm water that has accumulated
(E) is a phenomenon where ocean and atmosphere changes are combining and allow the warm water accumulating

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by Giorgio » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:17 am

Answer should be D:

You can easily eliminate A, B, C - They are fragments.

So down to E and D.

Clearly D wins , cause E is very awkward ... are combining and allow? that does not make sense

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by leoruls » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:23 am

Giorgio wrote:Answer should be D:

You can easily eliminate A, B, C - They are fragments.

So down to E and D.

Clearly D wins , cause E is very awkward ... are combining and allow? that does not make sense

Could you please elaborate for A,B,C as being Fragment ?.. Unable to get hold of the Fragment stuff

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by samarpan_bschool » Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:23 am

Option E -> 'where' is used to refer to 'places' (physically)

A, B, & C are fragments -> There is no MAIN VERB in the sentence

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by kapilhede17 » Tue Jun 18, 2013 9:47 am

Can someone please explain the "combine to allow" bit in the OA.
Its not like the intention of the ocean or the atmosphere is to allow the warm water to flow back ...
combine allowing seems more correct .
What am i missing here ?

TIA

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