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Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2020, 05:06
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Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas, to force drivers to a crawl and people to stay indoors.

A. to force drivers to a crawl and people to stay indoors.

B. to force drivers and people to a crawl and stay indoors.

C. forcing drivers to a crawl and people to the indoors.

D. forcing drivers to crawl and people to the indoors.

E. forced drivers to a crawl and people indoors.
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Re: Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2020, 07:40
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Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas, to force drivers to a crawl and people to stay indoors.


A. to force drivers to a crawl and people to stay indoors. <== clouds engulfed city with an intent to force...? Ummm that doesn't make sense. Moreover 'to force (verb), to stay(verb)' is okay but 'to a crawl' (noun)...?

B. to force drivers and people to a crawl and stay indoors. <== same as above plus ... drivers and people are are forced to a crawl as well as forced to stay indoors? doesn't make sense

C. forcing drivers to a crawl and people to the indoors. <=== clearly modifying clouds of sand. let's keep it.

D. forcing drivers to crawl and people to the indoors. <=== clearly modifying clouds of sand. let's keep it.

E. forced drivers to a crawl and people indoors. <== [color=#1b1464]engulfed and forced look parallel and while forced drivers to a crawl looks okay, people to the indoors makes dangling modifier[/color]


between C and D:
I have eliminated C because of 'a crawl' and chose D.
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Re: Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2020, 08:52
Hi TheGraceful , the answer should be c as it makes it parallel to a crawl and to the indoors is parallel with article in front of both . Otherwise forcing is fine at its shows result of action before
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Re: Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2020, 20:32
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can you please help with the justification/explanation for the OA?r
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Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas [#permalink] New post   14 Dec 2020, 03:38
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would you pls confirm how option C is correct and D is incorrect.

In my opinion, drivers and people are parallel element in here. And what comes after them are just modifier which can vary in structure.
In option C, writing "to a crawl" changes the crawl to noun rather than "to verb". And it more of sounds like drivers were pushed to something named crawl.
Option C is just trying to make "crawl" and "the indoors" parallel to retain structure. But in fact they alter the meaning itself.

Pls elaborate what your justification is for C !
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Re: Billowing clouds of sand engulfed the city and surrounding areas [#permalink] New post   14 Dec 2020, 08:00
I was also confused between C and D. And I chose C. Here is my reasoning

My understanding of the word is :
To crawl - means crawling as an action. Ex - babies crawl on their own will
To a crawl - means forcing someone to crawl. Ex - Traffic was at a crawl

Forcing drivers to a crawl and forcing people to the indoors. Both actions are parallel.
And that is why correct answer is C.

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