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by agarwalva » Tue May 15, 2012 7:00 pm
Yellowstone National Park officials have begun to fine those campers who fail to lock their cars at night, exposing their cars and other campers with scavenging bears.

(A) night, exposing their cars and other campers with

(B) night and expose their cars and other campers toward

(C) night, and expose their cars and others campers with

(D) night and who expose their cars and other campers to

(E) night, by exposing their cars and other campers to

OA [spoiler](D)[/spoiler]
whats the issue with A
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue May 15, 2012 7:07 pm
Yellowstone National Park officials have begun to fine those campers who fail to lock their cars at night, exposing their cars and other campers with scavenging bears.


A says "exposing with", B uses "expose toward", and C says "expose with"; all of these are unidiomatic. The correct expression is "expose to", which D and E both have.

E says that the campers fail to lock their cats by exposing their cars and other campers to scavenging bears, which does not make sense.
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by ice_rush » Tue May 15, 2012 7:15 pm
Hi Bill,

Is 'exposing' in choice (A) modifying Park Officals or campers?




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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue May 15, 2012 7:22 pm
That's another reason we can eliminate A: ambiguity. "Exposing..." is a participial phrase, which means it can modify either the subject or the noun before the comma.
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by rajcools » Wed May 16, 2012 8:16 am
(D) night and who expose their cars and other campers to

Bill , in (D) dont we need comma after night

night, and who expose their cars and other campers to

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got the answer, clause after and is not an independent clause

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Wed May 16, 2012 10:13 am
As you said, we're not using "and" to link two independent clauses but rather two modifying phrases:

"who fail...and who expose..."
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by joshmachine » Wed May 16, 2012 10:37 am
exposing ... with, expose towards, expose with -- unidiomatic -- wrong A,B,C out
E -- changes meaning -- By exposing cars/campers to bears they fail to lock -- Yucks!
D -- fail to lock cars, exposing cars/campers to bears - correct

IMO: D

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