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Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other [#permalink]
 27 Dec 2005, 07:39
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Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities.
A. is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,
B. is so reflective tha t little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,
C. so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else
D. reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or
E. reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did
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JAI HIND wrote: Antarctica receives more solar radiation than does any other place on Earth, yet the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise, the water levels of the oceans would rise 250 feet and engulf most of the world’s great cities.
A. is reflective, so that little polar ice melts during the summer; otherwise,
B. is so reflective tha t little of the polar ice melts during the summer; were it to do so,
C. so reflective that little polar ice melts during the summer, or else
D. reflective, so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer, or
E. reflects so that little of the polar ice melts during the summer; if it did
I choose B between B and C.
Reasoning - to maintain ||ism we have to use so reflective.
I think B has the correct construction with "were it to do so"
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I don't like the final sentence, but I choose B.
It provides parallelism and uses the correct idiom, as mentioned before.
temperatures are so... ice cap is so
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B. llism.
the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is so reflective
also need semicolon ( ; ) to seperate two ICs.
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I am choosing B as well although I don't like how B ends ...were it to do so. But the other choices are worse.
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B... but not sure if "were it to do so" is correct ?
but the rest seems to be worse off...
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Creeping and crawling through the choices, I also arrived at B.
Can anyone explain why C is incorrect?
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giddi77 wrote: Creeping and crawling through the choices, I also arrived at B.
Can anyone explain why C is incorrect?
the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective,
These are two clauses we need separate verb here. In 'C' verb is missing.
It makes it sound like...
the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap reflective,
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vivek123 wrote: giddi77 wrote: Creeping and crawling through the choices, I also arrived at B.
Can anyone explain why C is incorrect? the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, These are two clauses we need separate verb here. In 'C' verb is missing. It makes it sound like... the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap reflective, Got it! 
Thanks vivek.
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go with B as well...II'sim is there + it uses correct idiom...{are so cold & is so reflective}
though "were it to do so" sounds weird to me... 
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giddi77 wrote: vivek123 wrote: giddi77 wrote: Creeping and crawling through the choices, I also arrived at B.
Can anyone explain why C is incorrect? the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap is reflective, These are two clauses we need separate verb here. In 'C' verb is missing. It makes it sound like... the temperatures are so cold and the ice cap reflective, Got it! Thanks vivek. Is there a difference in meaning between "little of the polar ice melts" (used in B,D and E) and little polar ice melts (used in A and C)
Can some one clarify if the following interpretations are correct?
little of polar ice - implies a small portion of the polar ice
little polar ice - implies the polar ice, which was little, melts..
Thanks
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