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Doctors still know little about how the Listeria bacterium [#permalink]
 10 Jan 2006, 22:36
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Doctors still know little about how the Listeria bacterium is spread and why the disease it causes, listeriosis, afflicts some people in a contaminated area though it spares many others.
(A) though it spares
(B) where it spares
(C) despite sparing
(D) when sparing
(E) while sparing
Pls explain your answer!!
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I think it it is B.. Since the disease is inflicted only on some people and rest are unaffected.. where it spares
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Yups i go for B too.. Though A looks appealing but we need a "where" .
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I will pick B. E is also tempting. I think that the thing bieng "spared" is the "area" and not the people. The "area" is spared from contamination on many other people.
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i would have picked E for sure. How do we know that its the area being spared, and not the people ?
Usually, people are spared .... cant say Ive ever heard of areas being spared 
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I take on 'E'
(A) though it spares
>> Wrong usage of 'though'
(B) where it spares
>> 'where' is used correctly but this sounds as if it is talking about "particular area" where it spared few people
(C) despite sparing
>> Wrong usage of 'despite'
(D) when sparing
>> 'when' usage is wrong.
(E) while sparing
>> Sounds good & logical, keeps continuation..."does X while doing Y"
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vivek123 wrote: I take on 'E'
(A) though it spares
>> Wrong usage of 'though'
(B) where it spares
>> 'where' is used correctly but this sounds as if it is talking about "particular area" where it spared few people
(C) despite sparing
>> Wrong usage of 'despite'
(D) when sparing
>> 'when' usage is wrong.
(E) while sparing
>> Sounds good & logical, keeps continuation..."does X while doing Y"
Vivek,
yes OA is E
I selected B for two reasons.
1 where --> relative clause for area and describe the area.
2 Tense on both the side are same "afflicts" || "spares" both present tense. the how come the present progresive tense "sparing" is fine in E.
And also "while" is a conjuction which should connect two clause. but the "sparing many others" is not a clause its a phrase.
pls explain !!!
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cool_jonny009 wrote: vivek123 wrote: I take on 'E'
(A) though it spares
>> Wrong usage of 'though'
(B) where it spares
>> 'where' is used correctly but this sounds as if it is talking about "particular area" where it spared few people
(C) despite sparing
>> Wrong usage of 'despite'
(D) when sparing
>> 'when' usage is wrong.
(E) while sparing
>> Sounds good & logical, keeps continuation..."does X while doing Y" Vivek, yes OA is E I selected B for two reasons. 1 where --> relative clause for area and describe the area. 2 Tense on both the side are same "afflicts" || "spares" both present tense. the how come the present progresive tense "sparing" is fine in E. And also "while" is a conjuction which should connect two clause. but the "sparing many others" is not a clause its a phrase. pls explain !!! cj,
'B' actually appears parallel (or it is parallel) but it distorts the meaning of the whole sentence, as I have mentioned. So, it can't be correct. In short, only parallelism is not enough, it should convey correct/logical meaning.
'B' sounds as if "it attacks some people in the area where it spares few people". Where as it should be "it attacks some people in the area sparing few people" . You can see that first bold part sounds awkward.
I'm really sorry I don't really know about "while" rule... can anybody put light on "while" usage?
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I completely agree with what vivek says. should be E.
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vivek123 wrote: I take on 'E'
(A) though it spares
>> Wrong usage of 'though'
(B) where it spares
>> 'where' is used correctly but this sounds as if it is talking about "particular area" where it spared few people
(C) despite sparing
>> Wrong usage of 'despite'
(D) when sparing
>> 'when' usage is wrong.
(E) while sparing
>> Sounds good & logical, keeps continuation..."does X while doing Y"
E it is 
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