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garima99: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 217; Joined: Tue May 31, 2011 9:42 pm; Thanked: 8 times; Followed by:2 members

All-terrain vehicles

by garima99 » Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:56 pm

74. All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.
(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to
Why is D correct when 'damage' is not parallel with 'causing', should it not be damaging ?

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by vikram4689 » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:01 pm

(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to - TOO MANY ERROS TO MARK
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to - CAUSING .....as well as DOING are ||. It can be doing damage OR damaging. It cannot be DOING DAMAGING

(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to

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by Frankenstein » Thu Jun 23, 2011 9:13 pm

Hi,
causing and damaging (or) doing damage are parallel
They are causing hundreds of deaths, causing injury to thousands--> causing a list of 2 things. So, to make it clear we use and before the last thing in the list
There is no 'and' before injury in A.
Moreover hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries are parallel as well.
Only D takes care of these issues.

Hence, D

All-terrain vehicles have allowed vacationers to reach many previously inaccessible areas, but they have also been blamed for causing hundreds of deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging the nation's recreational areas.
(A) deaths, injury to thousands, and seriously damaging
(B) deaths and injuring thousands, and serious damage to
(C) deaths, thousands who are injured, as well as seriously damaging
(D) deaths and thousands of injuries, as well as doing serious damage to
(E) deaths, thousands are injured, and they do serious damage to
Why is D correct when 'damage' is not parallel with 'causing', should it not be damaging ?

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