Doesnt C imply that the insufficient amount of energy was trying to evaporate the water , but the energy was prevented from doing so .atulmangal wrote:Thought to share the given official explanation:
The original sentence incorrectly uses the verb evaporating, which cannot take a direct object; a subject, here water, can evaporate, but a subject cannot evaporate something else. In the original version of this sentence, evaporating its molecules is not a grammatical use of evaporating.
Additionally, as a result of is an adverbial phrase that does not grammatically describe a verb within the sentence. Prevented... as a result of is not an acceptable construction.
Choice C fixes these errors without introducing new ones. The subject water is prevented from evaporating, and evaporating does not incorrectly take an object. The preposition by grammatically corresponds with the verb prevented. The water is prevented from evaporating... by an insufficient level... The pronoun its clearly refers to water.
Choice D retains the ungrammatical as a result of. The use of being is awkward.
Choice E is illogical; the water is not actively preventing its molecules...
The correct answer choice is C.
water could
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No, in C the MOLECULES are prevented from evaporating BY the insufficient energy.mundasingh123 wrote:Doesnt C imply that the insufficient amount of energy was trying to evaporate the water , but the energy was prevented from doing so .atulmangal wrote:Thought to share the given official explanation:
The original sentence incorrectly uses the verb evaporating, which cannot take a direct object; a subject, here water, can evaporate, but a subject cannot evaporate something else. In the original version of this sentence, evaporating its molecules is not a grammatical use of evaporating.
Additionally, as a result of is an adverbial phrase that does not grammatically describe a verb within the sentence. Prevented... as a result of is not an acceptable construction.
Choice C fixes these errors without introducing new ones. The subject water is prevented from evaporating, and evaporating does not incorrectly take an object. The preposition by grammatically corresponds with the verb prevented. The water is prevented from evaporating... by an insufficient level... The pronoun its clearly refers to water.
Choice D retains the ungrammatical as a result of. The use of being is awkward.
Choice E is illogical; the water is not actively preventing its molecules...
The correct answer choice is C.
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I don't like the use of the singular pronoun to refer to "water". Water is non-countable, and thus is not plural, but it's not singular either. If used as a subject, water will agree with a singular verb("Water is the liquid of life"), but stretching this to a singular pronoun referring back to "water" seems...off. Then again, I don't think it's wrong grammatically. It's just awkward, as it highlights a problem with the grammatical rule that a non-count noun is (arbitrarily) considered a singular subject, either though it's neither plural nor singular - it's non countable.atulmangal wrote:OA is C guys...
Well Op E looks really tempting.
@Geva, m surprised to see your reply:
water does not actively evaporate its own molecules - the molecules can evaporate, or be evaporate (or be prevented from evporating), but water does not evaporate its own molecules - implies that water has some intent or choice in the matter.
This is exactly the reason why Op E is wrong here....because modifier Preventing is modifying the whole preceding clause...that means Op E will be read as
water preventing its molecules from evaporating by....logically incorrect as u stated above..
With Op C there is no such problem....what's wrong u find in Op C (as u said least worst Op) ??
