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On rare occasions, frost has been occuring as far south as [#permalink]
 22 Jan 2006, 01:00
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On rare occasions, frost has been occuring as far south as Miami, but there is not record of a frost in Key West.
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B) frost has occured as far south as Miami, but no records exist
C) as far south as Miami, frost has occured, but no records exist
D) places as far south as Miami have had unusual occurances of frost, but no record exists
E) frost has occured as far south as Miami, but no record has been
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(B) stands tall and proud.
Using a little CR logic-
1. present perfect indicates that in the event of another meteorological anomaly, frost may reoccur in Miami.
2. "records" needs to be plural to substatiate the claim. IE: compared from a variety of weather sources.
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GMATT73 wrote: (B) stands tall and proud.
Using a little CR logic-
1. present perfect indicates that in the event of another meteorological anomaly, frost may reoccur in Miami.
2. "records" needs to be plural to substatiate the claim. IE: compared from a variety of weather sources.
Agree with Matt. IMO, present perfect tense is better coz present continuous perfect tense is used to describe sth happening non-stop. Here we have "on rare occasions" ----> not continuous ---> present perfect tense is much better.
My money on B.
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Agree with Matt & Laxie, B it is!
BTW, Laxie, its so nice to see you back! 
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TeHCM wrote: Agree with Matt & Laxie, B it is! BTW, Laxie, its so nice to see you back! hik, i'm still here  ...it's just that i have no internet access at home so i seem reclusive  . How have you been, buddy?!! 
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I'm doing great! It was hard getting back on the saddle but I'm riding again!
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B - it is .. for me
A- "frost has been occuring" - implies that there is frost occurring even now. This contradicts with opening modifying statement : On rare occasions - which btw, implies of a past event
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C - modifier problem ... "On rare occasions" cannot be modifying "as far south..."
D -too wordy ..
E - if you insert the choice you can see it just does not read right
".... but no record has been of a frost in Key West..."
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Go with B. However first I thought D should be OK, but "On rare occasions" and "unusual occurances" together would be redundant.
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The OA is B. I was totally ready to go with it, when I thought shouldnt the sentence say frost occured in places as far south as Miami, rather than saying frost occured as far south as Miami? Thus I chose D, even though it looked too wordy as suggested by Bhai and 5elements.
Any comments?
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Although one more reason to reject D seems to be its usage of record rather than records.
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