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by ska7945 » Sun Aug 17, 2008 3:16 am
The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have an economy free of inflation.
(A) be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have
(B) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(C) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility of having
(D) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(E) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility of having

answer E
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by aj5105 » Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:33 am
'possibility of' is the idiom here.Hence A,B,D are out.

Coming to C - instead of on - 'the' would be a better choice.

E is left.
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by stubbornp » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:44 pm
IMO C...

because seriously impact parallels to severely impede.....

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by bourne159 » Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:38 pm
'seriously impact on' is not correct usage.
It should be 'seriously impact industrialized nations'.
Therefore B and C are incorrect.

A has a problem because the sentences uses 'serious impact to'. It should be 'serious impact on'.

Between D and E, the 'possibility of' is the correct usage. Hence E is right.

I believe the best option is 1 below
1) could seriously impact industrialized nations and could severely diminish/impede or
Since we don't have that option 2) works.
2) could have a serious impact on nations and could severely diminish

The usage of have might be confusing but it is the best choice we are left with.
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by drgmatIL » Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:49 am
C is out because impede != diminish
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