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As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.
(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize ....... SHOULD BE "TO STANDARDIZE".....IT'S A LIST.....
(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize.........CORRECT
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing ....SHOULD BE "TO STANDARDIZE".....IT'S A LIST.....
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing ........SHOULD BE "TO STANDARDIZE".....IT'S A LIST.....
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize ..... TAKE ADVANTAGE CANNOT BE PART OF LIST, IT ONLY QUALIFIES THE PREVIOUS PART OF SENTENCE......
(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize ....... SHOULD BE "TO STANDARDIZE".....IT'S A LIST.....
(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize.........CORRECT
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing ....SHOULD BE "TO STANDARDIZE".....IT'S A LIST.....
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing ........SHOULD BE "TO STANDARDIZE".....IT'S A LIST.....
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize ..... TAKE ADVANTAGE CANNOT BE PART OF LIST, IT ONLY QUALIFIES THE PREVIOUS PART OF SENTENCE......
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As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.
"taking advantage of off-season demand" correctly modifies the act preceding the comma - "to sell". By selling the shellfish year-round the fisheries take advantage of off-season demand.
But, what follows after the modifier must be congruent with what "commercial fishing of lobsters" will enable fisheries to do:
(1) enable fisheries To sell....
(2) enable fisheries (to) standardise
(3) and enable fisheries to predict sales volume.
The non-underlined portion of the sentence really does dictate the structure here.
For the reasons above, B is correct and the below are incorrect
(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
Standardize is not logically consistent. Taken literally, A says "will enable fisheries standardise"
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
C is incorrect because the participle "standardizing" modifies either the act of selling year round or taking advantage - neither of which makes sense.
Back-to-back modification is typically incorrect unless one statement is essential and the other non-essential.
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
Again, not consistent.
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
turning "take" into a verb instead of leaving it an infinitive breaks the grammatical parallelism, but also makes this list non-sensical.
"enabled X to sell, take..., to....
"taking advantage of off-season demand" correctly modifies the act preceding the comma - "to sell". By selling the shellfish year-round the fisheries take advantage of off-season demand.
But, what follows after the modifier must be congruent with what "commercial fishing of lobsters" will enable fisheries to do:
(1) enable fisheries To sell....
(2) enable fisheries (to) standardise
(3) and enable fisheries to predict sales volume.
The non-underlined portion of the sentence really does dictate the structure here.
For the reasons above, B is correct and the below are incorrect
(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
Standardize is not logically consistent. Taken literally, A says "will enable fisheries standardise"
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
C is incorrect because the participle "standardizing" modifies either the act of selling year round or taking advantage - neither of which makes sense.
Back-to-back modification is typically incorrect unless one statement is essential and the other non-essential.
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
Again, not consistent.
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
turning "take" into a verb instead of leaving it an infinitive breaks the grammatical parallelism, but also makes this list non-sensical.
"enabled X to sell, take..., to....
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I think list here is To SELL, TO STANDARDIZE and TO PREDICT.
Taking advantage is modifying "sell the shellfish year-round"
