souvik101990 wrote:
Glacier and ice patch archaeologists face extreme challenges to find, document, and conserve artifacts when melting ice fails to keep them undetected,
shielding them from decay due to changing climatic conditions, and safe from misappropriation.
A. shielding them from decay due to changing climatic conditions, and safe
B. shielding them from decay because of changing climatic conditions, and saving them
C. shielded from decay due to changing climatic conditions, and safe
D. shielded from decay due to changing climatic conditions, and saving them
E. shielded from decay because of changing climatic conditions, and safe
Day 10 Question of the Verbal Contest:
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split "due to' vs 'because of'. We can test 'due to' by substitute it with 'caused by' if it make sense then we should use 'due to':
"shielding them from decay
due to caused by changing climatic conditions"
'caused by' makes sense, because 'decay caused by changing climatic conditions', so we should use 'due to'
B and E out.
Structure of sentence:
Glacier and ice patch archaeologists face extreme challenges
....to find,
....[to] document,
....and [to] conserve artifacts
when melting ice fails to keep them
....undetected,
....shielding them from decay due to changing climatic conditions,
....and safe from misappropriation.
'undected', 'shielding' and 'safe' - three elements that should be parallel because they describe in which condition melting ice fails to keep them
(we can't use 'shielding' because it will be modify previous clause 'fails to keep' so we need to use 'shielded')
C is answer