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 15 Oct 2005, 10:54
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School integration plans that involve busing between suburban and central-city areas have contributed, according to a recent study, to significant increases in housing integration, which, in turn, reduces any future need for busing.
(A) significant increases in housing integration, which, in turn, reduces
(B) significant integration increases in housing, which, in turn, reduces
(C) increase housing integration significantly, which, in turn, reduces
(D) increase housing integration significantly, in turn reducing
(E) significantly increase housing integration, which, in turn, reduce
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I'd pick C.
I think we need increase cause the plural plans.
The adverb is misplaced in E.
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strange:
I reread the sentence again...and guess what we are talking about plans...so its plural, we need increase here...
C is best....
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I think A
Plans have contributed to significant increases in X - The 'increases' i think is for X and not for 'plans'.
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Re: SC-School Integration [#permalink]
15 Oct 2005, 18:29
rahuluec wrote: School integration plans that involve busing between suburban and central-city areas have contributed, according to a recent study, to significant increases in housing integration, which, in turn, reduces any future need for busing.
(A) significant increases in housing integration, which, in turn, reduces
(B) significant integration increases in housing, which, in turn, reduces
(C) increase housing integration significantly, which, in turn, reduces
(D) increase housing integration significantly, in turn reducing
(E) significantly increase housing integration, which, in turn, reduce
We need " which" to modify " housing integration". Thus, eliminate D.
"housing integration" is singular, we need " reduce" to be singular, cross E.
the position of "significantly" in C is not favored, it should be put as close to the verb " increase" as possible. Cross C.
The original sentence has " school integration" , then using " housing integration" is better. I go for A.
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-E is incorrect because there is no agreement between "significantly increase housing integration" and "reduce"
-A is incorrect because there is no agreement between "significant increases in housing integration" and "reduces"
-C is incorrect because there is no agreement between "increase housing integration significantly" and "reduces"
-B is incorrect because there is no agreement between "significant integration increases in housing" and "reduces"
Therefore, the correct answer is D.
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Take out the chunk of extra information will give you:
School integration plans that involve busing between suburban and central-city areas have contributed to....
obviously, C and D are plain awkward: ..have contributed to increase housing integration significantly..
E is worse: ... have contributed to significantly increase housing integration...
B is no better: ... have contributed to significant integretion increases....
A is the best
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OA is A
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 got this one wrong, I was going for C.
So what is the difference between to increase significantly and to significantly increase?
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In A "increases" is a noun, in C "increase" is a verb. You can contribute to something, not contribute to do something.
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