Sentence Correction

The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople and how they would have to act militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them
(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary
(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event
(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event
(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for dealing with it


Please correct me if I am wrong in my explanation.

In option A they refers to "The British Admiralty and the War Office" and them refers to Russian. If we need to refer to 'The British Admiralty and the War Office' then THEMSELVES should have been used but then sentence wouldn't make any sense.

B- THEM refers to Russian.

C- No idea why it is wrong. militarily seems to wrong here.

E- necessity is Noun form. 'IT' has no reference.

Also, I read on some post "in order to cannot serve to modify action (noun)." Can anyone explain this?

vishalwin wrote:The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople and how they would have to act militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them
(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary
(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event
(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event
(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for dealing with it


Please correct me if I am wrong in my explanation.

In option A they refers to "The British Admiralty and the War Office" and them refers to Russian. If we need to refer to 'The British Admiralty and the War Office' then THEMSELVES should have been used but then sentence wouldn't make any sense.

B- THEM refers to Russian.

C- No idea why it is wrong. militarily seems to wrong here.

E- necessity is Noun form. 'IT' has no reference.

Also, I read on some post "in order to cannot serve to modify action (noun)." Can anyone explain this?

Hi,
Firstly, A and B can be discarded straightaway because 'Them' points to 'The british admirality and the war office" as it is the only plural subject here.
In"a possible Russian attempt" subject is 'attempt' not 'Russian' (Russian acts as an adjective modifying 'attempt')
Next 'and' denotes parallelism so in order to make 'to consider' parallel we need to use 'to deal'
Eliminating C and E

Thus answer is D

I would love to have some expert comment on this question and check if my logic is sound!!!

Also please underline the part that is to be underlined.

sharkin wrote:The British Admiralty and the War Office met in March 1892 to consider a possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople and how they would have to act militarily to deal with them.

(A) how they would have to act militarily to deal with them
(B) how to deal with them if military action would be necessary
(C) what would be necessary militarily for dealing with such an event
(D) what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event
(E) the necessity of what kind of military action in order to take for dealing with it

In A and B, them (pronoun) cannot serve to refer to Russian (adjective).
Eliminate A and B.

C: what would be necessary militarily
The WAR OFFICE is likely to decide that MILITARY ACTION is what would be necessary.
As a result, C seems to imply that MILITARY ACTION would be MILITARILY necessary -- an error of redundancy.
Eliminate C.

in order to must serve to modify a VERB.
E: military action in order to
Here, in order to cannot serve to modify action (noun).
Eliminate E.

The correct answer is D.

B: if military action would be necessary
if + SUBJECT + would is always wrong.
Eliminate B.

Hello Mitch, I had read somewhere that phrases and clauses are not considered parallel to each other, but it looks like my impression is in correct, because here, the OA does have a phrase and a clause:

- Phrase: a possible Russian attempt to seize Constantinople
- Clause: what military action would be necessary in order to deal with such an event

Hi Mitch,
I cant understand the parallelism in correct answer choice D.
Please help.
Thanks in advance

pujadutta wrote:Hi Mitch,
I cant understand the parallelism in correct answer choice D.
Please help.
Thanks in advance

Neuroscientists are now drawing solid conclusions about the disease.
Here, the disease serves as the object of the preposition about.

A clause includes both a subject and a verb.
A clause may function as a noun.
SC720 in the OG18:
Neuroscientists are now drawing solid conclusions about how the human brain grows.
Here, the portion in blue contains both a subject (brain) and a verb (grows) and thus constitutes a clause.
This clause functions as a NOUN -- a noun serving as the object of the preposition about, just like the disease in the sentence above.
A clause that functions as a noun is known as a NOUN CLAUSE.

and must serve to connect PARALLEL FORMS.
VERB and VERB
MODIFIER and MODIFIER
OBJECT and OBJECT
Forms connected by and must serve the SAME FUNCTION, but they do NOT have to exhibit the same structure.

OA: to consider a possible Russian attempt...and what military action would be necessary
Here, each green portion serves as an object of the verb consider.
Since the two green portions serve the same function, they are considered parallel -- even though they are structured differently.

necessary to do " is idiomatic. " necessary for doing " is not idiomatic. choice c is gone
in choice e, "necessity of what kind of action" dose not exist in english.

sorry to post second time
in choice e, "for dealing with" refer to "necessity" .
"necessity for dealing with..." is not idiomatic.

necessity to deal with is idiomatic
so, choice e has one more error