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272. Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
(A) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for
(B) be significant in reducing the risk of heart attacks and aid for
(C) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid
(D) cause a significant reduction in the risk of heart attacks and aid to
(E) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks as well as aiding
There were previous posts on this question but there were inherent typos in those threads. I reposted this question for further clarification.
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I am between A and C. C does seems shorter, but I am not sure if you eliminate the word for, will it change the meaning of the sentence? I will probably choose A.
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I think i have seen this one but we probably dont have 'may' underlined or do we? If it is underlined then C,D and E are automatically elliminated.
So, everything as it is then the answer must be A because B wouldn't make sense.
Assuming 'may' is NOT underlined then, I believe OA may be D?
Eating sw fish may cause a significant reduction in...and (a significant) aid to sufferers of X.
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I'm not satisfied with any, but will go with C .
ont you think 'reduces' should be used instead of 'reduce ' in C. Anyway, if were to pick one answer, i would still go with C
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trahul4 wrote: I'm not satisfied with any, but will go with C .
ont you think 'reduces' should be used instead of 'reduce ' in C. Anyway, if were to pick one answer, i would still go with C
There is no ambuguity in C.
Underlining in the question is Wrong.
If you look at the Option A, it states "significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for".
So "may" should not be underlined in the question.
"may" will require plural verb so C is Right.
Please see below:
Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
So C has:
- proper S-V agreement
- Parallelism
- Correct Idiom "aid + person/thing"
- Brajesh
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Re: SC1000 #272 Saltwater Fish [#permalink]
11 Jul 2007, 13:04
It looks like choice is betwen A and C.
I will go with C, see below
bmwhype2 wrote: 272. Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
(A) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for ---"also" is redundant, "for" makes sentence structure unparallel
(B) be significant in reducing the risk of heart attacks and aid for
(C) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid ---Perfect and Correct
(D) cause a significant reduction in the risk of heart attacks and aid to
(E) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks as well as aiding
There were previous posts on this question but there were inherent typos in those threads. I reposted this question for further clarification.
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It has to be C
You cannot "aid for sufferers", so A & B are out bc 'aid' is an active verb in this case.
You cannot "aid to sufferers" so bye-bye D.
And E has agreement issues btw "reduce" and "as well as aiding"
C it is by POE and by the fact that reduce and aid both act as active verbs in their respective clauses.
BTW, because may is part of the actual sentence, it should be "may significantly reduce" and not "may significantly reduces", to answer trahul4's question.
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yes if may is part of the sentence then usage of reduce is correct.
But if may is not used, then i believe we should use reduces.. any comments ?
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Re: SC1000 #272 Saltwater Fish [#permalink]
06 May 2011, 03:17
It is C and OA is also C
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Re: Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of [#permalink]
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+1 C Parallelism: reduce...AND...aid. Both must be working verbs. When aid acts as a working verb, the correct idiom is "aid (object)" We don't need "aid for".
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Re: Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of [#permalink]
05 Feb 2012, 10:09
+1 C A similar type of question was on veritas preps mock test
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Re: Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of [#permalink]
20 Mar 2012, 21:21
I have chosen C for this question:
A. "Aid for" is not correct here - it seems to be acting as a noun that is parallel to risk. This makes no sense.
B. Same as A. If "aid" was used as a verb, it wouldn't be parallel to "reducing," so this answer choice is incorrect in either case.
C. This is the correct answer. The verb "aid" is parallel to reduce and the meaning of the sentence is clear.
D. Again, "aid to" seems to act as a noun that is parallel to risk, but this meaning doesn't make any sense. Also, "cause a significant reduction in the risk..." seems wordy - this could definitely be more concise.
E. We have a parallelism error here - reduce and aiding are not parallel.
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Re: Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of [#permalink]
20 Mar 2012, 23:15
I go with C as well.
The question tests "and" parallelism. In B, maybe significant in reducing is wrong usage. Same goes with D, may cause a significant reduction in...
In E, as well as is the parallel marker but aiding is not parallel with reduce.
So, that leaves us with A and C. A is wrong because of ALSO, which is redundant when and is present. I don't know about aid for. But considering idiomatic is not of much emphasis in the new version, I prefer to rule out based on ALSO rather than AID FOR..
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Re: Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of [#permalink]
21 Mar 2012, 07:56
C for me too it incorporates the correct parallelism
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Re: Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of [#permalink]
23 Mar 2012, 08:50
bmwhype2 wrote: 272. Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for sufferers of rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, according to three research studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
(A) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and also aid for
(B) be significant in reducing the risk of heart attacks and aid for
(C) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and aid
(D) cause a significant reduction in the risk of heart attacks and aid to
(E) significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks as well as aiding
There were previous posts on this question but there were inherent typos in those threads. I reposted this question for further clarification. IMO Answer C. I chose C over A since- 1. Grammatically more correct and perfectly parallel- reduce the risk and aid 2. Does not use "also" and makes the entire sentence unambiguous.
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