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As people become more and more aware of the dangers of water-borne diseases, the demand for mineral water is increasing at a rapid rate, bottled mineral water providing both easy transportability and assured water quality.


(A) is increasing at a rapid rate, bottled mineral water providing both easy transportability and assured water quality

(B) has been increasing at a rapid rate, because of bottled mineral water both providing easy transportability and assuring water quality

(C) has increased at a rapid rate, since bottled mineral water provides both easy transportability and assures water quality

(D) will increase at a rapid rate because bottled mineral water provides both easy transportability and assured water quality

(E) increases at a rapid rate, with bottled mineral water providing both easy transportability and assuring water quality


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Answer: D

This sentence is testing you on your understanding of time periods. The non underlined part states that as people become something. When will this happen? Obviously, in the future. So the effect—demand for mineral water—will also take place in the future.

(A) Incorrectly uses the present continuous tense (is increasing) instead of the future tense.

(B) Incorrectly uses the present perfect continuous tense (has been increasing) instead of the future tense. Also, the sentence incorrectly makes providing parallel with assuring. Providing in fact is common to both the benefits of bottled water and, hence, should ideally be placed before both.

(C) Incorrectly uses the present perfect tense (has increased) instead of the future tense. The use of assures as a verb is incorrect because provides has already been used earlier.

(D) The correct answer.

(E) Incorrectly uses the simple present tense (increases) instead of the future tense. Incorrectly makes providing and assuring parallel.
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I chose C

Reason:
1. As people become more and more aware --> this says that with time people are becoming aware. People becoming more and more aware is slow progression happening with time and doesnt indicate future event.
If it would have been a future event ---> the question would start like -" As people will become more & more aware"

2. Therefore, the later sentence should also be in present tense.

3. Present perfect indicates as am action that has started in past and is happening in current time but the continuity of the action in future is uncertain. So Present perfect fits perfectly.
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(D) will increase at a rapid rate because bottled mineral water provides both easy transportability and assured water quality

I think D has parallelism issue - 'provides ' cant be parallel with 'assured'. for proper parallelism 'assured ' should be 'assures ', if this choice is correct
Hi winterschool,

No, "provides" and "assured" do not have to be parallel. "Assured" here is not acting as a verb but rather as an adjective for "water quality".
"bottled mineral water provides both easy transportability and assured water quality"
Here, the structure is- ABC provides both X and Y. Y here is assured water quality.

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(D) will increase at a rapid rate because bottled mineral water provides both easy transportability and assured water quality

I think D has parallelism issue - 'provides ' cant be parallel with 'assured'. for proper parallelism 'assured ' should be 'assures ', if this choice is correct
Hi winterschool,

No, "provides" and "assured" do not have to be parallel. "Assured" here is not acting as a verb but rather as an adjective for "water quality".
"bottled mineral water provides both easy transportability and assured water quality"
Here, the structure is- ABC provides both X and Y. Y here is assured water quality.

Hope it helps.

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PyjamaScientist, I missed after 'both' parallelism. 'provides' presents before 'both', so need to be parallel
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