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by prachich1987 » Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:40 am
Japan's abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils, it has made possible the raising of a variety of crops.

A. it has made possible the raising of
B. has made it possible for them to raise
C. have made it possible to raise
D. have made it possible for raising
E. thus making it possible for them to raise
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by tomada » Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:42 am
IMO (C).
prachich1987 wrote:Japan's abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils, it has made possible the raising of a variety of crops.

A. it has made possible the raising of
B. has made it possible for them to raise
C. have made it possible to raise
D. have made it possible for raising
E. thus making it possible for them to raise
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by winner's attitude » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:37 am
prachich1987 wrote:Japan's abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils, it has made possible the raising of a variety of crops.

A. it has made possible the raising of
B. has made it possible for them to raise
C. have made it possible to raise
D. have made it possible for raising
E. thus making it possible for them to raise
Let me try

1) whenver a lot of commas are there... mostly they are multipliers placed to create S/V error.
2) to+ verb is generally used for "in order to " with a purpose ,a nd - ing is either modifier or noun.

( if someone has any other opinion abt -ing and to+verb .. pls share )

C is the best choice here
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by prachich1987 » Tue Dec 14, 2010 11:41 pm
The OA is C
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by sungoal » Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:24 am
The use of "and" in the underlined sentence indicates that we have to go for parallelism.. choice A,B and E are not parallel. have produced a lush vegetation cover and have blah blah blah or have produced a lush vegetation cover and participle(ed) should be the answer choice.

Out of C and D, D possible for raising sounds awkward and changes the meaning. So correct answer is C..
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