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The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects, language
variations which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated by geographic isolation.
A. which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
B. that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
C. originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
D. originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated
E. originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating

Please explain the usage of Participle in +ing and --ed form. I am totally confused with this structure when i use parallelism to determine the correct answer.

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Re: Query Regarding Modifiers [#permalink]

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nipun1987 wrote:

Please explain the usage of Participle in +ing and --ed form. I am totally confused with this structure when i use parallelism to determine the correct answer.

My answer is D because it maintains parallelism. Here, participles are used on both sides of 'and' (originating and perpetuated). Ethnic and cultural heritages are in a state of flux (so continuous - originating is used) and geographic isolation is fixed (so past - perpetuated is used).

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Re: The increased popularity and availability of televisions has [#permalink]

26 Sep 2012, 12:12

The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects...

The use of HAS LED indicates that the change in dialects is an on-going process. Eliminiate A,B and C

Between D and E

perpetuating by..is incorrect , so choose (D)

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