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A) "be a serious impact to agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility to attain"
"impact" should be used with the preposition "on" and not "to". Also, "the possibility to attain" sounds incorrect. (eliminate)
(B) "seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain"
Here, "impact" is incorrectly used as a verb with the preposition "on". I think, when "impact" is used as a verb, it does not take a preposition. (eliminate)
(C) "seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility of attaining"
Same issue with "impact" as in (B). When "impact" is used as a verb, it doesn't require the preposition "on". (eliminate)
(D) Option D: "have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility of attaining" is the best choice.
This option uses "have a serious impact on," correctly using "impact" as a noun with the appropriate preposition, and it also uses "the possibility of attaining", the correct construction after "possibility". Sentence construction and logic seems to be fine. (keep for now)
(E) "have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain"
Here, "the possibility to attain" is incorrect. It should be "the possibility of attaining". (keep, but can be eliminated)
I will go with option D.
Waiting for OA.
"impact" should be used with the preposition "on" and not "to". Also, "the possibility to attain" sounds incorrect. (eliminate)
(B) "seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain"
Here, "impact" is incorrectly used as a verb with the preposition "on". I think, when "impact" is used as a verb, it does not take a preposition. (eliminate)
(C) "seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility of attaining"
Same issue with "impact" as in (B). When "impact" is used as a verb, it doesn't require the preposition "on". (eliminate)
(D) Option D: "have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility of attaining" is the best choice.
This option uses "have a serious impact on," correctly using "impact" as a noun with the appropriate preposition, and it also uses "the possibility of attaining", the correct construction after "possibility". Sentence construction and logic seems to be fine. (keep for now)
(E) "have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain"
Here, "the possibility to attain" is incorrect. It should be "the possibility of attaining". (keep, but can be eliminated)
I will go with option D.
Waiting for OA.
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Option A- The preposition "to" is incorrect, "have an impact on" should be the correct sentence structure. Furthermore, parallelism is compromised in this choice.
Option B- "have" is missing if the preposition "on" is to be used. A correct alternative could omit "on" - "Drop....could impact agrarian nations". "Possibility to" is unidiomatic.
Option C- "have" is missing if the preposition "on" is to be used. A correct alternative could omit "on" - "Drop....could impact agrarian nations".
Option D- Parallel structure. Idiomatically correct.
Option E- "Possibility to" is unidiomatic.
Hence, the correct answer is D.
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18 Jul 2023, 11:06
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The expected drop in the price of cotton could be a serious impact to agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility to attain an economic growth rate above 10 percent.
The underlines part is incorrect in terms of grammar since (i) it doesn't make idiomatic sense to say "could be a serious impact" and (ii) it doesn't make idiomatic sense to say "to attain" after saying "dimmish the possibility".
(i) the impact is going to be borne by an entity / object and thus the correct usage is "could have a serious impact on"
(ii) the correct preposition to follow "possibility" is "of" and not "to"
(A) be a serious impact to agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility to attain
incorrect due to the above errors
(B) seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain
this answer choice does not correct the errors and only replaces "dimmish" with "impede" (which are not synonyms, and thus this replacement changes the intended meaning)
(C) seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility of attaining
this answer choice only corrects one out of the two errors identified, but changes intended meaning by using "impede" instead of "diminish"
(D) have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility of attaining
this is the correct answer choice
(E) have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain
this answer choice only corrects one out of the two errors identified, but changes intended meaning by using "impede" instead of "diminish"
The underlines part is incorrect in terms of grammar since (i) it doesn't make idiomatic sense to say "could be a serious impact" and (ii) it doesn't make idiomatic sense to say "to attain" after saying "dimmish the possibility".
(i) the impact is going to be borne by an entity / object and thus the correct usage is "could have a serious impact on"
(ii) the correct preposition to follow "possibility" is "of" and not "to"
(A) be a serious impact to agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility to attain
incorrect due to the above errors
(B) seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain
this answer choice does not correct the errors and only replaces "dimmish" with "impede" (which are not synonyms, and thus this replacement changes the intended meaning)
(C) seriously impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility of attaining
this answer choice only corrects one out of the two errors identified, but changes intended meaning by using "impede" instead of "diminish"
(D) have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely diminish the possibility of attaining
this is the correct answer choice
(E) have a serious impact on agrarian nations and severely impede the possibility to attain
this answer choice only corrects one out of the two errors identified, but changes intended meaning by using "impede" instead of "diminish"
