As accelerating climate change and other man-made environmental degrad

Question

As accelerating climate change and other man-made environmental degradations create growing alarm across the planet, the Sami people have much to teach the world about how to adapt, survive, and thrive.

A. As accelerating climate change 
B. As accelerated climate change 
C. As climate change accelerates 
D. As climate change is accelerated 
E. As climate changes are accelerated

pqhai · Accepted Answer

A is correct.

First, we split the sentence in terms of meaning.  What creates growing alarm across the planet?  Only the man-made environmental degradations or both climate change and them? The intended meaning should be "the climate change and other man-made........create growing alarm...." ==> C, D, E are out.

Between A and B, should we use V+ing or V+ed form. To come up with an answer, let think:  climate change accelerates by itself or It is accelerated? Clearly, it accelerates itself  ==> V+ing form is correct.

Hope it helps.

ankurgupta03 · Answer

A better explanation struck my mind. We use accelerating here, we are talking about an ongoing phenomenon ... growing, hence accelerating should be used instead of accelerated, which is an action which is completed. Hope it helps

ankurgupta03 · Answer

Stuck between A and B and chose B, can someone please explain

petrifiedbutstanding · Answer

Exactly my problem. And the explanation doesn't help clear the fog either.

AJ8348 · Answer

In my opinion,

3,4,5 is out coz "As" is used before the noun however, As must be used with clause.
Now, between 1 & 2--

the sentence structure implies present tense it is better to compare two present scenario rather than one past---as it makes more sense.with the context.
Hence,1.

petrifiedbutstanding · Answer

I don't really disagree, because you make sense. But this is exactly the confusing bit. How can we really argue that climate change hasn't accelerated?

And now that we have some responses, maybe it will be useful to you guys to note that the explanation to this question says, "Accelerated climate change is grammatically incorrect".

bev · Answer

Can someone please shed some more light between choices A and B? ing is a modifier and does not show ongoing event, it rather takes the time frame of main verb of sentence. even ed is a modifier - both are known to modify nouns then what is the rationale of choosing A over B?

Gian · Answer

Well, pqhai (three posts above) has already explained the criteria to choose between accelerating and accelerated.

Consider the below two sentences:

a) The climates changes   accelerated   by the soil erosion has become a havoc for the farmers of the Indus valley. -> What caused the acceleration in climate changes = soil erosion
b) The   accelerating   car hit the truck before plunging into the valley. -> There is no mention in the sentence who caused the acceleration, since the car was accelerating by itself and the word accelerating just adds additional information.

Now in the sentence:
 As accelerating climate change  and other man-made environmental degradation create growing alarm across the planet, the Sami people have much to teach the world about how to adapt, survive, and thrive.

The verb    create    is a hint of compound subject and the sentence shows two factors:
a) Accelerating climate change (climate change which is increasing by itself)
b) man-made environmental degradation

Hope it helps.

DesiGmat · Answer

My two cents -

A. As accelerating climate change ----indicates an on-going event---- accelerating is an adverb modifying adjective climate that in turn modifies the action noun change
B. As accelerated climate change ---- accelerated is used as an adjective that cannot modify another adjective climate...

Please correct me if i am wrong.

cledgard · Answer

C, D, and E can be eliminated because when we join two independent clauses, we need a comma.
A and B are both correct; however, there is a change in meaning. 
A is the correct answer because we need to keep the meaning of the original sentence.

cledgard · Answer

A and B are both correct; however, there is a change in meaning. 
A is the correct answer because we need to keep the meaning of the original sentence.

saukrit · Answer

First Split:  Here the main point is to understand whether the alarm is created by both climate change and env degradation, or is it created only by env degradations. The answer is surely the first case. U can comfortably ignore C, D and E
 Second Split : Accelerated vs Accelerating, though both sound correct the meaning creates clear segregation amongst both of these. Let us see it in the option analysis below

Accelerating refers to current climate change, growth of which is increasing at a constant rate. Looks ok. We can hold on to it and check whether there are any better other options

Accelerated here refers to an event of past. There is a verb tense mismatch here. climate change was accelerated in the past and concern is growing now. Think of the structure like As X creates growing awareness.... Here X also has to be in the present tense, keeping X in past makes no logical/grammatical sense to the sentence. Hence we can surely strike this option off

E. As climate changes are accelerated

All C, D and E are wrong for the reason stated above. Climate change and environmental degradations, both create growing alarm and not just environmental degradation.

vimas · Answer

I think C, D and E can be eliminated easily. There are lot of great answers here.
If you are confused between A and B, then there is one rule to remember.
Whenever you have to choose between verb-ed and verb-ing modifiers, you need to decide whether the action is intentional or unintentional. 
  If the action is intentional then we use the verb-ed form 
 If the action is unintentional then we use the verb-ing form

Consider the 2 examples -
1)  Designed to perfection , the new car was the cynosure of all eyes.
Here, 'design' is intentional, so we use the adjective Designed
2)  Erupting at an absolutely wrong time , the volcano posed a major problem for the local residents.
Here, 'eruption' is unintentional, so we use the adjective Erupting

Coming back to our question, In the answer choice A and B we are talking about the acceleration of climate change. Is acceleration of climate change intentional or unintentional?
It is unintentional, so we use the adjective accelerating.

Correct answer - A.

Crytiocanalyst · Answer

A. As accelerating climate change 
accelerating is parallel with growing and the meaning is perfect therefore let us hang on to it

B. As accelerated climate change 
accelerated climate chang isn't making much sense therefore out

C. As climate change accelerates 
accelerates isn't parallel with growing in addition the meaning is out therefore out

D. As climate change is accelerated 
THe meaning isn't perfect therefore out

E. As climate changes are accelerated
We are not accelerating anything it was already in the making , distorted meaning therefore out

THerefore IMO A

Purvidebuka · Answer

Hi Experts,

So I correctly chose option A. However, I relied excessively on my intuition while choosing between A and C. Since I am unable to come up with a viable explanation, I would need your assistance. Thank you.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Purvidebuka ,

We hope this finds you well.

Having gone through the question and your query, we believe that we can resolve your doubt.

The intended meaning of the relevant part of the sentence is that two things - accelerating climate change and other man-made environmental degradations - are creating growing alarm across the planet; this is because the verb "create" acts upon both the noun phrases "accelerating climate change" and "other man-made environmental degradations"

The construction of Option C has the verb "accelerates" act upon "climate change" and the verb "create" act upon only "other man-made environmental degradations", incorrectly implying that climate change is accelerating, and as a separate action other man-made environmental degradations are creating growing alarm across the planet.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

pinakinjsaojoij · Answer

As accelerating climate change  and other man-made environmental degradations create growing alarm across the planet

for this sentence to be parallel answer should be noun because after 'and' we have noun.

and only A can work as a noun (gerund)

ViharSaladi · Answer

Hi experts,

Bunuel   ExpertsGlobal5   bb   GMATNinja

Could someone please help me to understand the difference between option A and B?

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  ViharSaladi ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the difference here is of meaning; "accelerating" is a present participle, so its use here indicates that the action is ongoing: climate change is, at present, accelerating.

"accelerated" is a past participle, so its usage incorrectly indicates that climate change was accelerated at some point, but it is not longer getting faster (accelerating), and has now plateaued.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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