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C is better because E changes the meaning even though E is a choice which can easily be jumped on!
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+1 for C. Though 'its' is an ambiguous pronoun in C
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In C, dissipating is present participle. Can someone explain how such usage is correct.
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Re: Set26-37 Sound can travel through water for enormous [#permalink]
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Economist wrote: Set26-37
Sound can travel through water for enormous distances,
prevented from dissipating its acoustic energy as a result of
boundaries in the ocean created by water layers of different
temperatures and densities.
A. prevented from dissipating its acoustic energy as a
result of
B. prevented from having its acoustic energy dissipated by
C. its acoustic energy prevented from dissipating by
D. its acoustic energy prevented from being dissipated as
a result of
E preventing its acoustic energy from dissipating by sound should be the subject after comma...so A B E are ignored... so now that answer is between C & D C: prevented from .... by... : this is perfect D: prevented from being... as a result of... : wordy and wrong so ANSWER is clearly C guys, if answer is otherwise, please educate us
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daagh wrote: In C, dissipating is not a present participle. It is a gerund. You see from is a preposition. A preposition will always be followed a noun or a noun phrase , or a pronoun or a gerund Thanks, unfortunately it didnt click even though i know the rule. Why D is incorrect
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In fact, my first split will be to get rid of the idiom ‘as a result of’ because it is wordy. That is the reason why we can safely eliminate A and D at the first instance.
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daagh wrote: In fact, my first split will be to get rid of the idiom ‘as a result of’ because it is wordy. That is the reason why we can safely eliminate A and D at the first instance. As a result of - shows cause and effect relationship. boundaries created ... cause, energy prevented...effect. Hence correct being dissipated is one reason that D can be eliminated
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Samwong wrote: The OA is C
The source is Verbal Review 2nd Ed
I'm confused about the structure of the sentence. According to the explanation from the book, "prevented..." is a participial phrase modifying the noun "acoustic energy". Since there is no conjunction between "distances" and "its", is the second part of the sentence an appositive (noun phrase)? If the second part is an appositive, which noun is it modifying?
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"Sound can travel through water for enormous distances,
its acoustic energy prevented from dissipating by boundaries in the ocean created by water layers of different temperatures and densities." I had to do some research on this one myself. There is no verb in the second part (missing "is"), so it is not a run-on sentence. Instead, the second phrase is modifying the entire clause. Google "absolute phrase" for construction and some examples. I have seen this maybe 2 other times on official GMAT questions, so I don't think that it is extremely important.
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C it is, quite clearly..! E is very tempting indeed, but if we focus on the meaning, C and D look good. D is wordy, so C wins.
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Re: Set26-37 Sound can travel through water for enormous [#permalink]
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Hi,
how come you don't need a FANBOY or semicolon for OA C? are they not 2 independent clauses
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Re: Set26-37 Sound can travel through water for enormous [#permalink]
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ttb217 wrote: Hi,
how come you don't need a FANBOY or semicolon for OA C? are they not 2 independent clauses The second part is not a clause. What is the verb? Prevented is a past participle modifier as it is passive (acoustic energy is NOT doing the action of preventing - easy to see with the preposition from after prevented). Also, see previous responses. I am not a grammar guru, but I believe this to be an absolute phrase. Google that to see its usage, but you will probably rarely encounter one.
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