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Although gale-force winds often pass through the Eiffel Tower,causing it to sway no more than four inches.

A causing it to sway no more
B and yet it sways no more
C they do not cause it to sway more
D and they do not cause it to sway more
E yet causing it to sway no more

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Although is a parallel Marker.

Correct form is : Although X, Y where X & Y needs to be parallel.

Option D introduces AND that is wrong here and distort parallelism.

C maintains parallelism and best option.
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Although gale-force winds often pass through the Eiffel Tower,causing it to sway no more than four inches.

A causing it to sway no more
B and yet it sways no more
C they do not cause it to sway more
D and they do not cause it to sway more
E yet causing it to sway no more

Thank you in advance!

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Hi,
In pure grammatical language, 'although' is used in a complex sentence(a sentence consisting of a dependent and an independent clause) and 'and' is used in compound sentence(two independent clauses)
Although is used to show a contrast and starts a dependent clause.
and to show contrast, there is a requirement of an independent clause on which 'although....' is dependent.. and only choice C provides that.
'and ' restricts the contrast and is structurally wrong.
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Although gale-force winds often pass through the Eiffel Tower,causing it to sway no more than four inches.

A causing it to sway no more
B and yet it sways no more
C they do not cause it to sway more
D and they do not cause it to sway more
E yet causing it to sway no more

Thank you in advance!

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what's wrong with D ? Well The original sentence has started with a subordinate conjunction so all we need a IC to contrast , we cannot have another conjunction in place of an IC. 'and they' is wrong here .
Option C is correct.
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REMEMBER THAT WE NEED A MAIN CLAUSE TO CREATE A SENTENCE.


A causing it to sway no more -------- Wrong because we need a main clause to create a sentence.


B and yet it sways no more --------- No parallelism. We don't have a clause before "and".


C they do not cause it to sway more -------- CORRECT.


D and they do not cause it to sway more ---------- No parallelism. We don't have a clause before "and".


E yet causing it to sway no more ---------- Wrong because we need a main clause to create a sentence.



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