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After decreasing steadily in the mid-1990's, the percentage of students in the United States finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and 84.8 percent in 1998.
(A) finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
(B) finishing high school or earning equivalency diplomas, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rising to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from
(C) having finished high school or earning an equivalency diploma increased in the last three years of the decade, and rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from
(D) who either finished high school or they earned an equivalency diploma, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
(E) who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
After sliding in the mid-1990's, the percentage of students who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas has inched up in the last three years, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and 84.8 percent in 1998. The highest previous rate was 86.4 percent in 1992.
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Hi Zarrolou,
After decreasing steadily in the mid-1990's, the percentage of students in the United States finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and 84.8 percent in 1998.
(A) finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and (B) finishing high school or earning equivalency diplomas, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rising to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from (C) having finished high school or earning an equivalency diploma increased in the last three years of the decade, and rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from (D) who either finished high school or they earned an equivalency diploma, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and (E) who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
The reason that verb-ing modifiers in Choices A, B, and C refer to immediately preceding noun United States and hence these choices should be eliminated is not correct.
The verb-ing modifier without a comma preceding it and a relative pronoun both are noun modifiers. The rules for all the noun modifiers are the same. In that case, then “who” in Choices D and E should also refer to the immediate preceding noun United States. But that is not the case.
In choices A, B , and C, the verb-ing modifiers correctly refers to the preceding noun phrase “students in the United States”. This is the reason why “who” also refers to this very noun phrase in choices D and E.
For more details on when a noun modifier can refer to a slightly far away noun and when it cannot, please refer to the following article:
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After decreasing steadily in the mid-1990's, the percentage of students in the United States finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and 84.8 percent in 1998.
(A) finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and (B) finishing high school or earning equivalency diplomas, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rising to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from (C) having finished high school or earning an equivalency diploma increased in the last three years of the decade, and rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from (D) who either finished high school or they earned an equivalency diploma, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and (E) who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and
I confirm: the OA is E. (well said aditya8062 ) The use of the -ing form modifies the noun before, Unites States in this case. This is clearly wrong: out A B C. D is unclear: "they" makes the sentence redundant.
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Please note that when "who" is used as a non-essential modifier, ie. with a comma right before "who", then "who" modifies the noun right before the comma. Else, when "who" is used as anessential modifier, ie. without a comma right before "who", then "who" doesn't necessarily modify the noun right before the comma. So, in this case, "who" modifies "students in the United States".
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10 Aug 2013, 01:22
Here are my colorful 2 cents on the answer choices.
aditya8062 wrote:
After decreasing steadily in the mid-1990's, the percentage of students in the United States finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and 84.8 percent in 1998. (A) finishing high school or having earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, up to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and - Unidiomatic; increased ... upto is just wrong (B) finishing high school or earning equivalency diplomas, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rising to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from - intended meaning unclear because of incorrect modifiers (C) having finished high school or earning an equivalency diploma increased in the last three years of the decade, and rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and from -Fragmented sentence structure (D) who either finished high school or they earned an equivalency diploma, increasing in the last three years of the decade, rose to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and - Incorrect parallelism; redundant wordings-increase already captures the essence of %tage increasing (E) who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and Correct answer choice
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12 Aug 2013, 06:04
mohish wrote:
egmat wrote:
“who” in Choices D and E should also refer to the immediate preceding noun United States.
Hello egmat, how can who modify United States? Can who modify a country?
Hi "mohish",
Well, that's what my point is. The way cannot refer to United States, in the same way the other noun modifiers after "United States" also do not refer to the Unites States because logically they all refer to a little far away noun "students".
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15 Aug 2013, 02:06
In Choice E isn't comma between decade & 86.5 wrong?
"who finished high school or earned equivalency diplomas increased in the last three years of the decade, to 86.5 percent in 2000 from 85.9 percent in 1999 and"
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25 Jun 2016, 09:40
The phrase needs a "who" because saying "someone having done something" is not idiomatic. Answer choice D has "they", rendering the answer choice incorrect. Answer choice E is the correct one.
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21 May 2018, 03:31
egmat wrote:
mohish wrote:
egmat wrote:
“who” in Choices D and E should also refer to the immediate preceding noun United States.
Hello egmat, how can who modify United States? Can who modify a country?
Hi "mohish",
Well, that's what my point is. The way cannot refer to United States, in the same way the other noun modifiers after "United States" also do not refer to the Unites States because logically they all refer to a little far away noun "students".
Though now I know why we cant eliminate A, B, C outright due to the noun modifier rules just explained, I am having trouble to find out on what grounds exactly we eliminated A,B,C .
Is it due to - A - increased..up to = ''up'' being incorrect/redundant B - no verb hence its a sentence fragment C - increased.. and rose to = ''rose'' being incorrect/redundant ; Also, , and is not required because the intention is to use this part as a modifier rather than as an independent clause and there is no Independent clause following it
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