Eating saltwater fish may significantly reduce the risk of

bmwhype2 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:36 am


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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.

nevergiveup · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:44 am

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.

asaf · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:37 am

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.

trahul4 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:37 am

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

b14kumar · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:51 pm

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

seofah · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:04 pm

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.

N750 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:51 pm

Had zeroed on C and E. Will pick C.

vishalsuri · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:16 pm

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.

If may is not underlined, C .

simonsanchez · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:08 pm

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.

trahul4 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:29 am

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 ?

nawaab007 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:12 am

Will go with C all the way.. Can we have the OA?

nawaab007 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:13 am

Well the OA also says C.

Himalayan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:48 am

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.

C looks better over A.

prasforgmat · **Posted:** Fri May 06, 2011 3:17 am

It is C and OA is also C

metallicafan · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:15 am

+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".

boomtangboy · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:09 am

+1 C

A similar type of question was on veritas preps mock test

whamberto · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:21 pm

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.

mourinhogmat1 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:15 pm

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..

kraizada84 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:56 am

C for me too it incorporates the correct parallelism

shikhar · **Posted:** Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:12 pm

C is the best option...

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