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by HarvardDreamin » Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:19 pm
A a result of a supernova explosion, every human being on Earth was bombarder on Februarry 23,1987, by about 100 billion neutrinos; fortunately, neutrinos are harmless elementary particles that are produced in nuclear reactions and that interact very weakly with matter.

a) neutrinos are harmless elementary particles that are produced in nuclear reactions and that
b) neutrinos, which are harmless, are elementary particles produced in nuclear reactions and which
c) neutrinos are harmless elementary particles produced in nuclear reactions and which
d) these harmless elementary particles are produced in nuclear reactions, and neutrinos
e) these elementary particles, harmless products of nuclear reactions, are neutrinos that

Any ideas people? OA is a
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by niraj_a » Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:07 pm
i was choosing between A and E, and I chose E in the end because they just mention neutrinos like a word before fortunately so i thought there was no need for repetition.

i guess im wrong on this one.
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by stubbornp » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:02 pm
B,C eliminated due to wrong usage of which.....

D,E out bcoz reesumptive modifier is necessary here...

A is correct bcoz it uses the reesumptive modifier neutrinos
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by sunnychopra » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:12 pm
Hi All,
i will also go with A because it is using correct parallelism form 'that.....that..'
b and C are incorrect because of wrong usage of 'which'.

Thanks,
Regards,
Sunny
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by pdabur » Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:25 pm
'A' seems to be most logical and grammatical
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by louvre » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:34 am
sunnychopra wrote:Hi All,
i will also go with A because it is using correct parallelism form 'that.....that..'
b and C are incorrect because of wrong usage of 'which'.

Thanks,
could someone explain the difference of usage with "which" and "that" please.
I want to nail the difference once for all!
Cheers,
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by mastbombay » Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:53 pm
pls let me know what is reesumptive modifier?
stubbornp wrote:B,C eliminated due to wrong usage of which.....

D,E out bcoz reesumptive modifier is necessary here...

A is correct bcoz it uses the reesumptive modifier neutrinos
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by java_ka_jalwa » Thu Sep 11, 2008 2:39 pm
its a typo. try searching "resumptive modifiers".
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