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According to the experts, growing a customized human organ successfully in an animal through the stem-cell technology may lead to an increase in the number of successful organ transplants, a parity between demand and supply of organs, a boost in the overall usage of the technology, and invest in the appropriate infrastructure for the procedure.

a) a boost in the overall usage of the technology, and invest

b) a boost in the overall usage of the technology as well as investing

c)boosting the overall usage of the technology and investing

d) and a boost in the overall usage of the technology as well as investments

e) and a boost in the overall usage of the technology, as well as invest
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IMO D

According to the experts, growing a customized human organ successfully in an animal through the stem-cell technology may lead to an increase in the number of successful organ transplants, a parity between demand and supply of organs, a boost in the overall usage of the technology, and invest in the appropriate infrastructure for the procedure.

a) a boost in the overall usage of the technology, and invest --> list is wrong

b) a boost in the overall usage of the technology as well as investing ---> no and to end the list

c)boosting the overall usage of the technology and investing ----> no and to end the list

d) and a boost in the overall usage of the technology as well as investments--> Correct

e) and a boost in the overall usage of the technology, as well as invest ---> dont need this form of invest.
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Hi in this I eliminated option B because 'as well as' can't be used for joining more than 2 items. Is my reasoning correct?
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Hi in this I eliminated option B because 'as well as' can't be used for joining more than 2 items. Is my reasoning correct?
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If your point is that "as well as" CANNOT substitute for "and" in a plain list of three or more parallel items, then, yes, you're correct.

Specifically,

• X, Y, and Z
• W, X, Y, and Z,
etc
These are CORRECTLY written.

• X, Y, as well as Z
• W, X, Y, as well as Z
etc
These are INCORRECTLY written.
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Add-on to the previous post, because I don't want you to get an excessively simplistic idea here.


Specifically...
The construction "[____1____] as well as [____2____]" can also be written with a list of more than one item in location 1.


The context has to be right for this sort of thing, by the way.
E.g., If you have four objects (W, X, Y, Z) that all play the same role in context, that all have the same overall grammatical functionailty, and that are all equal-priority items (= "they'd make sense as a simple list of bullet points"), you should just write a simple list of four parallel items ("W, X, Y, and Z").
If a simple unadorned list is the right construction, then you should not even think of embellishing it into something like "W, X, and Y as well as Z".


On the other hand, if 'Z'—and only 'Z'—is the standard/obvious/default/widely-known/commonsense option for something, and W, X, and Y are unusual/non-default/little-known/non-commonsense possibilities, then
W, X, and/or Y as well as Z
is the best way to write the sentence.
E.g.,
Women often take estrogenic birth-control pills to mitigate the severity of menstrual pain, regulate blood-serum levels of sex hormones, or reduce the appearance of acne as well as to help prevent pregnancy.

In this sentence, "help prevent pregnancy" is, of course, the commonsense default use case that literally every single random person on the street knows for birth-control pills (and even if not, this use can be deduced from the name "birth-control pills"!).
The other three uses are much less well known—a relation that's precisely expressed by putting them all on the left side of "as well as".
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Add-on to the previous post, because I don't want you to get an excessively simplistic idea here.


Specifically...
The construction "[____1____] as well as [____2____]" can also be written with a list of more than one item in location 1.


The context has to be right for this sort of thing, by the way.
E.g., If you have four objects (W, X, Y, Z) that all play the same role in context, that all have the same overall grammatical functionailty, and that are all equal-priority items (= "they'd make sense as a simple list of bullet points"), you should just write a simple list of four parallel items ("W, X, Y, and Z").
If a simple unadorned list is the right construction, then you should not even think of embellishing it into something like "W, X, and Y as well as Z".


On the other hand, if 'Z'—and only 'Z'—is the standard/obvious/default/widely-known/commonsense option for something, and W, X, and Y are unusual/non-default/little-known/non-commonsense possibilities, then
W, X, and/or Y as well as Z
is the best way to write the sentence.
E.g.,
Women often take estrogenic birth-control pills to mitigate the severity of menstrual pain, regulate blood-serum levels of sex hormones, or reduce the appearance of acne as well as to help prevent pregnancy.

In this sentence, "help prevent pregnancy" is, of course, the commonsense default use case that literally every single random person on the street knows for birth-control pills (and even if not, this use can be deduced from the name "birth-control pills"!).
The other three uses are much less well known—a relation that's precisely expressed by putting them all on the left side of "as well as".
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Hi Ron,

Thanks for the explanation. Could you please also clarify if "as well as" can be used in any of the parts of X, Y, and Z. for example, X as well as D, Y as well as T, and so on.
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