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Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier [#permalink]
 08 Oct 2012, 10:08
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Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries, a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. A. the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries B. the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, with sufficient enough power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights C. the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which enabled them to carry sufficient enough power in fuel cells and batteries D. the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which were capable of carrying sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights E. the flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, whose shortness allowed them to carry sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries Edit: Posted Full question and removed the image file.
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Re: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spac [#permalink]
08 Oct 2012, 10:13
Unlike X , Y is the idiom being tested here. Only B and D are the contenders. In B their is a modifier error , with is xxx is incorrect , further their is no verb present. D wins.
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Re: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spac [#permalink]
08 Oct 2012, 22:56
vdadwal wrote: Unlike X , Y is the idiom being tested here. Only B and D are the contenders. In B their is a modifier error , with is xxx is incorrect , further their is no verb present. D wins. Correctly pointed out! The reason B is wrong is that the prepositional phrase " with......." is unclear in terms of the clause/phrase it is modifying. Is it the previous one or the next one. eg. XXXXXXXXX, with.........., YYYYYYYYYY We dont know with is referring to XXXXXXXXX or to YYYYYYYY. Hope this clarifies 
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Re: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spac [#permalink]
08 Oct 2012, 23:20
adineo wrote: vdadwal wrote: Unlike X , Y is the idiom being tested here. Only B and D are the contenders. In B their is a modifier error , with is xxx is incorrect , further their is no verb present. D wins. Correctly pointed out! The reason B is wrong is that the prepositional phrase " with......." is unclear in terms of the clause/phrase it is modifying. Is it the previous one or the next one. eg. XXXXXXXXX, with.........., YYYYYYYYYY We dont know with is referring to XXXXXXXXX or to YYYYYYYY. Hope this clarifies Hi, how can you say that it is not clear to what "with" modifier is modifying. But if we see the entire phrase, it has pronoun"their" which can go back only to "shuttle and spacecrafts" (plural) and not to "space station" singular. I eliminated B from D for following reason: 1) sufficient enough is redundant. As both the words are being used for the same sense. 2) Also, "ENOUGH THAT" is not a correct idiom. Correct Idiom for Enough is : 1) Enough to + verb 2) Enough + Noun+ to + verb 3) Adj + Enough to + verb 4) Enough For Hope this helps.
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Re: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spac [#permalink]
08 Oct 2012, 23:48
anukrati wrote: adineo wrote: vdadwal wrote: Unlike X , Y is the idiom being tested here. Only B and D are the contenders. In B their is a modifier error , with is xxx is incorrect , further their is no verb present. D wins. Correctly pointed out! The reason B is wrong is that the prepositional phrase " with......." is unclear in terms of the clause/phrase it is modifying. Is it the previous one or the next one. eg. XXXXXXXXX, with.........., YYYYYYYYYY We dont know with is referring to XXXXXXXXX or to YYYYYYYY. Hope this clarifies Hi, how can you say that it is not clear to what "with" modifier is modifying. But if we see the entire phrase, it has pronoun"their" which can go back only to "shuttle and spacecrafts" (plural) and not to "space station" singular. I eliminated B from D for following reason: 1) sufficient enough is redundant. As both the words are being used for the same sense. 2) Also, "ENOUGH THAT" is not a correct idiom. Correct Idiom for Enough is : 1) Enough to + verb 2) Enough + Noun+ to + verb 3) Adj + Enough to + verb 4) Enough For Hope this helps. Your first point is correct. There is redundant usage. How can you eliminate B on basis of "enough that" when there is no "that" present ? Moreover, the construction of prepositional modifier in this case is ambiguous. 'Their' can also refer to fuel cells and batteries. Lets say we remove the redundancy: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, with sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights , a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. This sentence is also an incorrect usage because of ambiguity! Hope it clarifies
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Re: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spac [#permalink]
09 Oct 2012, 00:21
adineo wrote: anukrati wrote:
Hi, how can you say that it is not clear to what "with" modifier is modifying.
But if we see the entire phrase, it has pronoun"their" which can go back only to "shuttle and spacecrafts" (plural) and not to "space station" singular.
I eliminated B from D for following reason:
1) sufficient enough is redundant. As both the words are being used for the same sense.
2) Also, "ENOUGH THAT" is not a correct idiom.
Correct Idiom for Enough is :
1) Enough to + verb
2) Enough + Noun+ to + verb
3) Adj + Enough to + verb
4) Enough For
Hope this helps.
Your first point is correct. There is redundant usage. How can you eliminate B on basis of "enough that" when there is no "that" present ? Moreover, the construction of prepositional modifier in this case is ambiguous. 'Their' can also refer to fuel cells and batteries. Lets say we remove the redundancy: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, with sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights , a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. This sentence is also an incorrect usage because of ambiguity! Hope it clarifies I incorrectly wrote that "I eliminated because of that reason" What I wanted to say was - what is the correct idiom usage of Enough and what is not. Thanks for correcting me.
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Re: Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spac [#permalink]
09 Oct 2012, 03:53
[quote="SOURH7WK"]Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries, a permanently orbiting space station will have to generate its own electricity. A. the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries B. the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, with sufficient enough power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights C. the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which enabled them to carry sufficient enough power in fuel cells and batteries D. the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which were capable of carrying sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries for their short flights E. the flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, whose shortness allowed them to carry sufficient power in fuel cells and batteries Unlike X, Y is the correct construction, where X and Y are logical and parallel. A. space station is compared with flights of shuttles. Apples to oranges
B. sufficient enough is a heavily redundant construction.
C. Same error as AD. Correct.E. Same error as A and C.
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