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I have a problem related to modiers.
* To determine whether there are deposits of frozen water on the moon, research scientists at NASA launched two unmanned satellites that orbited the moon's atmosphere, analyzing radar echos from the lunar surface.
A) analyzing
B) as the analysis technique of
C) to the analysis of
D) to analyze
E) a tecnique for analyzing
OA A
Could you explain me the role of modifier “analyzing” --- to what it is modifying and how ??
What are the rules ??
Are present and past participle modify the subject of the verb ??
As in these 2 examples
1. Socrates questioned the foundations of political behavior, forcing Athenians to examine duty they owed the state, encouraging youth to question the authority of their elders, claiming all the while that he wanted only to puzzle out the truth.
2. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of powerful intellect, driven by an insatiable curiosity and haunted by a vision of artistic perfection
Or modify the nearest noun as in the OG,if not then why modifier is not modifying , animal-hide shields with wooden frames
1. For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
A) a method to protect
B) as a method protecting
C) protecting
D) as a protection of
E) to protect
OA C
This is also the eg. Of OG
Og11 Sc127
127. Found throughout Central and South America, sloths hang from trees by long
rubbery limbs and sleep 15 hours a day, moving infrequently enough that two
species of algae grow on its coat and between its toes.
(A) sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs and sleep 15 hours a day,
moving infrequently enough
(B) sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs, they sleep 15 hours a day, and
with such infrequent movements
(C) sloths use their long rubbery limbs to hang from trees, sleep 15 hours a day,
and move so infrequently
(D) the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeping 15 hours a day
and moving so infrequently
(E) the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeps 15 hours a day,
and it moves infrequently enough
OA A
I have a problem related to modiers.
* To determine whether there are deposits of frozen water on the moon, research scientists at NASA launched two unmanned satellites that orbited the moon's atmosphere, analyzing radar echos from the lunar surface.
A) analyzing
B) as the analysis technique of
C) to the analysis of
D) to analyze
E) a tecnique for analyzing
OA A
Could you explain me the role of modifier “analyzing” --- to what it is modifying and how ??
What are the rules ??
Are present and past participle modify the subject of the verb ??
As in these 2 examples
1. Socrates questioned the foundations of political behavior, forcing Athenians to examine duty they owed the state, encouraging youth to question the authority of their elders, claiming all the while that he wanted only to puzzle out the truth.
2. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of powerful intellect, driven by an insatiable curiosity and haunted by a vision of artistic perfection
Or modify the nearest noun as in the OG,if not then why modifier is not modifying , animal-hide shields with wooden frames
1. For members of the seventeenth century Ashanti nation in Africa, animal-hide shields with wooden frames were essential items of military equipment, a method to protect warriors against enemy arrows and spears.
A) a method to protect
B) as a method protecting
C) protecting
D) as a protection of
E) to protect
OA C
This is also the eg. Of OG
Og11 Sc127
127. Found throughout Central and South America, sloths hang from trees by long
rubbery limbs and sleep 15 hours a day, moving infrequently enough that two
species of algae grow on its coat and between its toes.
(A) sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs and sleep 15 hours a day,
moving infrequently enough
(B) sloths hang from trees by long rubbery limbs, they sleep 15 hours a day, and
with such infrequent movements
(C) sloths use their long rubbery limbs to hang from trees, sleep 15 hours a day,
and move so infrequently
(D) the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeping 15 hours a day
and moving so infrequently
(E) the sloth hangs from trees by its long rubbery limbs, sleeps 15 hours a day,
and it moves infrequently enough
OA A
