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by karthikpandian19 » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:28 pm
An experimental device that is being clinically tested does not need to comply with the safety standards that apply to an approved device, for determining whether a company has produced a device that is safe would be impossible if the company were held liable for causing the problems that the clinical test was designed to detect.


(A) An experimental device that is being clinically tested does not need to comply with the safety standards that apply to an approved device, for determining whether a company has produced a device that is safe would be impossible if the company were held liable for causing

(B) The reason that the safety standards that apply to an approved device do not have to be complied to by an experimental device in clinical testing is that determining whether a company has produced a safe device is impossible if it was held liable for the cause of

(C) As it is being clinically tested, an experimental device does not need to comply to the safety standards that are applicable to an approved device, because to determine whether a company has produced a device that is safe would be impossible if the company is held liable for causing

(D) An experimental device, in its clinical testing, does not need to be in compliance with the safety standards applying to an approved device, determining whether a company is producing a device that is safe is impossible if it is held liable to cause

(E) There are safety standards that apply to an approved device that an experimental device that is being clinically tested does not have to comply with them, in that determining whether a company has produced a safe device will be impossible if the company is held liable to cause
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by vk_vinayak » Mon Jul 23, 2012 8:59 pm
A looks correct. All other options have grammatical/meaning errors.
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by karthikpandian19 » Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:06 pm
OA is A.

The comma + conjunction for connects two clauses that can both stand alone as sentences. The if clause describes a condition that would have a certain result if this condition were met. When a situation has an outcome that would take place in the present if the condition is in fact met, then this condition must be in the simple past tense. Furthermore, when the verb describing the condition is a form of "to be," then the past tense is expressed using were, not was, no matter whether the subject is singular or plural.
vk_vinayak wrote:A looks correct. All other options have grammatical/meaning errors.
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