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Accentuated by the cold weather during rainy season, moisture and dampness in soil lead to decomposition of organic matter into humus enabling mushrooms to flourish.

A. enabling mushrooms to flourish.

B. for the mushrooms to flourish.

C. for flourishing mushrooms.

D. that enable the mushrooms to flourish.

E. that the mushrooms can flourish.
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The most obvious answer after reading the sentence seems to be A, but it is not the right answer, now the question is Why, as "enabling" seems to be correctly modifying the modified action "lead" and the noun "moisture and dampness" seems to be correctly doing the enabling part, but here is the catch there is "no comma" after humus because of that enabling is now modiying humus which is very very very very wrong :shocked


Now Why D is correct because the relative pronoun "that" is correctly pointing to hummus saying it is the Hummus my lord which is enabling these mushrooms to flourish :)


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Accentuated by the cold weather during rainy season, moisture and dampness in soil lead to decomposition of organic matter into humus enabling mushrooms to flourish.

A. enabling mushrooms to flourish.

B. for the mushrooms to flourish.

C. for flourishing mushrooms.

D. that enable the mushrooms to flourish.

E. that the mushrooms can flourish.
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Accentuated by the cold weather during rainy season, moisture and dampness in soil lead to decomposition of organic matter into humus enabling mushrooms to flourish.

A. enabling mushrooms to flourish....

B. for the mushrooms to flourish.

C. for flourishing mushrooms.....it just helps those mushrooms to flourish

D. that enable the mushrooms to flourish.

E. that the mushrooms can flourish....wrong usage

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Can any one clarify that why option B is wrong?

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The most obvious answer after reading the sentence seems to be A, but it is not the right answer, now the question is Why, as "enabling" seems to be correctly modifying the modified action "lead" and the noun "moisture and dampness" seems to be correctly doing the enabling part, but here is the catch there is "no comma" after humus because of that enabling is now modiying humus which is very very very very wrong :shocked


Now Why D is correct because the relative pronoun "that" is correctly pointing to hummus saying it is the Hummus my lord which is enabling these mushrooms to flourish :)


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Accentuated by the cold weather during rainy season, moisture and dampness in soil lead to decomposition of organic matter into humus enabling mushrooms to flourish.

A. enabling mushrooms to flourish.

B. for the mushrooms to flourish.

C. for flourishing mushrooms.

D. that enable the mushrooms to flourish.

E. that the mushrooms can flourish.
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I rejected D because humus seems to be singular and the verb ,enable, is plural. Enlighten me please.

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The most obvious answer after reading the sentence seems to be A, but it is not the right answer, now the question is Why, as "enabling" seems to be correctly modifying the modified action "lead" and the noun "moisture and dampness" seems to be correctly doing the enabling part, but here is the catch there is "no comma" after humus because of that enabling is now modiying humus which is very very very very wrong :shocked


Now Why D is correct because the relative pronoun "that" is correctly pointing to hummus saying it is the Hummus my lord which is enabling these mushrooms to flourish :)


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Accentuated by the cold weather during rainy season, moisture and dampness in soil lead to decomposition of organic matter into humus enabling mushrooms to flourish.

A. enabling mushrooms to flourish.

B. for the mushrooms to flourish.

C. for flourishing mushrooms.

D. that enable the mushrooms to flourish.

E. that the mushrooms can flourish.
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I rejected D because humus seems to be singular and the verb ,enable, is plural. Enlighten me please.

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somebody please clear this doubt, why is the verb 'enable' rather than 'enables' ?is humus plural?

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IF we consider choice A
enabling is refrerred to this noun phrase "decomposition of organic matter into humus"
whereas it is the humus , which is responsible

I also a bit skeptical about D , it should contain "enables" to proper refrence because here" that" is substitution for humus.
rohan2345 Could you throw some light on this
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What is wrong with option A?
here enabling refers to humus only as there is no comma after humus
Also in d humus is singular how can d be correct
If in d , that refers to moisture and dampness then it makes sense ,but that refers to humus here .Please explain GMATNinja
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Does anybody know the source of this question? I'm not convinced that it's an official GMAT question. If it is, I'm happy to weigh in; if it isn't, it's probably not worth worrying about...
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The most obvious answer after reading the sentence seems to be A, but it is not the right answer, now the question is Why, as "enabling" seems to be correctly modifying the modified action "lead" and the noun "moisture and dampness" seems to be correctly doing the enabling part, but here is the catch there is "no comma" after humus because of that enabling is now modiying humus which is very very very very wrong :shocked


Now Why D is correct because the relative pronoun "that" is correctly pointing to hummus saying it is the Hummus my lord which is enabling these mushrooms to flourish :)


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Accentuated by the cold weather during rainy season, moisture and dampness in soil lead to decomposition of organic matter into humus enabling mushrooms to flourish.

A. enabling mushrooms to flourish.

B. for the mushrooms to flourish.

C. for flourishing mushrooms.

D. that enable the mushrooms to flourish.

E. that the mushrooms can flourish.

I rejected D because humus seems to be singular and the verb ,enable, is plural. Enlighten me please.

Thanks.


somebody please clear this doubt, why is the verb 'enable' rather than 'enables' ?is humus plural?

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It can't be "enables". It is "moisture and dampness" which is a compound noun which forces the working verb to be plural which is "enable" in this case.
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