SC parallelism

[maihuna]

The US-BASIC accord, taken as a final conference draft, contained elements like limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, factoring in overriding priorities of poverty for developing nations.

contained elements like limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, factoring in

contained elements such as limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, factoring in

contained elements including limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, after factoring in

containing elements such as limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, and factoring in

contained elements such as limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible and factoring in

[homersimpson]

IMO E whats the OA?

[Shawshank]

IMO -- D

[getso]

IMO -D

[umaa]

The US-BASIC accord, taken as a final conference draft, contained elements like limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, factoring in overriding priorities of poverty for developing nations.

contained elements like limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, factoring in

contained elements such as limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, factoring in

contained elements including limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, after factoring in

containing elements such as limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible, and factoring in

contained elements such as limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, peaking of global and national emissions as soon as possible and factoring in

IMO D

A - Like is wrong; AND is needed before "factoring"
B - AND is needed before "factoring"
C - Changes the meaning;
D - Correct
E - doesn't have COMMA before AND FACTORING.

What is OA?

[maihuna]

OA is C: factoring in is not parallel to other two activities.

[umaa]

Maihuna,
I'm not convinced with the OA. But D is definitely wrong. I somehow missed to see the CONTAINING. Its wrong. D is a run-on sentence. The clause doesn't have a verb.

[mariah]

whats the source ?

[getso]

@Testluv : Could you please help us here ..

I'm confused

[hrishi19884]

OHH GOD!!!!

I read option C more than 10 times but still not able to understand the meaning correctly.

Which source did you get this ans from?

I think, it should be either D or E

[CrazyGmatter]

IMO E..

In C, contained and including is creates redundancy.

Testluv or Stuart..pls clarify

[Testluv]

received a pm.

The subject of this sentence is the "US-BASIC accord".

Choice D creates a sentence fragment. If you remove the fluff, with choice D, the sentence reads:

"The US-BASIC accord, taken as a final conference draft, containing..., and factoring in...priorities... ."

If you remove the unnecessary intervening phrase, it reads:

"The US-BASIC accord containing...and factoring in...priorities... ."

The sentence is incomplete because it lacks a verb and fails to convey a complete thought. It is the same as this: "The man, walking in the cold night." Which is clearly not a complete sentence. The sentence can be made complete like this: "The man, walking in the cold night, zipped up his coat." Or like this: "The man walked in the night."

Choice E is not parallel. If it is going to have "and", it would have to end with "and factored in" in order to be parallel with "contained", and in order for the tense to be coherent. This is also why choice C is correct by comparison. By using "after factoring in" it is clear that the "factoring in" happened in the past.

[hrishi19884]

Testluv, your explanation is alright but the basic problem here in option C is

"including limiting...." seems to be absurd. Both verbs here are used together which doesn't make any sense.

generally we use "including" as below :

"Please do all the questions from the chapter 1, including the last two questions"

[Testluv]

Hi hrishi,

I agree that the sentence sounds a bit awkward. I'm not terribly impressed with this question. The best way of looking at it is: "contained elements including a, b..." So, the "limiting" is just part of item a in the list of elements included.

For example: "I like various activities, including going to the movies, and eating."

[hrishi19884]

Testluv, Thank you so much!