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1. Many psychologists and sociologists now contend that the deliberate and even brutal aggression integral to some forms of competitive athletics increase the likelihood of imitative violence that erupts among crowds of spectators dominated by young adult males.
(A) increase the likelihood of imitative violence that erupts
(B) increase the likelihood that there will be an eruption of imitative violence
(C) increase the likelihood of imitative violence erupting
(D) increases the likelihood for imitative violence to erupt
(E) increases the likelihood that imitative violence will erupt
Please provide explaination for each . Thanks
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I pick D because the subject is the "deliberate and even brutal aggression integral" which is singular, eliminate A, B, C. E is wordier and unclear, that leaves D.
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Can anyone explain why E is better than D??
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can 'likelihood' be related to something that could happen in the future and thus will used a future tense 'will erupt'. In that case (E) looks like the right answer. Any other ideas?
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subject-verb agreement leaves us with D & E.
'likelihood for' is not idiomatic, which eliminates D.
E is best answer.
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Are we trying to match the official answer? I think E is totally wrong for using "will". E means that this sort of behaviour doesn't happen in present but will definitely happen in the future. Totally absurd. I would rather use a wrong idiom that something that totally changes the meaning of the sentence.
who is the creator of SC1000 by the way?
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I find E hard to agree with. "that" is not the right qualifier IMHO.
D makes more sense. But official answer is E, hmmm...
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will erupt in E is not correct .
can we challenge OA by the way.. can anybody tell me if this q is taken from OG or it is form any other study guide ?
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go with anser E.
"will erupt" is the correct usage when compared to "to erupt"
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I think E is correct.
D says: increases the likelihood for imitative violence to erupt
Sounds as if imitative violence is itself doing the eruption.
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In case of E, on one hand its saying "likelihood", on the other its saying "will". Is it not contradictory ??
Had it been "may" it would have been better.
Last edited by dips on 26 Jun 2007, 11:24, edited 1 time in total.
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One more thing : 'Likelihood that' is idiomatic...came to know after searching on this forum.
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Due to S-V agreement, we have only D and E.
In E, "will" have nothing wrong.
Yes, "may" or other present tenses are better but "will" isn't wrong.
On the other hand, in D, "liklelihood for" is not idiomatic.
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There is a wrong answer on one of the very first questions of SC1000. I refuse to use that thing. Can anyone find this question someplace else?
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i'm sorry for asking this question again, but can't help it. Can anybody tell me what the source of SC1000 is?
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