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Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest

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Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2020, 05:50
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Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest level since the recession, after last week’s disastrous storms in Mongolia led to fears that there could be a threat to the world’s main source of cashmere goats when at a time with their numbers are already low.

A) that there could be a threat to the world’s main source of cashmere goats when at a time with their numbers are

B) that the world’s main source of cashmere goats could be threatened at a time such as when their numbers are

C) that the world’s main source of cashmere goats could be threatened at a time when their numbers are

D) of the world’s main source of cashmere goats perhaps being threatened at a time with their numbers

E) of perhaps threatening the world’s main source of cashmere goats at a time that their numbers were

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Re: Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2020, 07:15
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Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest level since the recession, after last week’s disastrous storms in Mongolia led to fears that there could be a threat to the world’s main source of cashmere goats when at a time with their numbers are already low.

A) that there could be a threat to the world’s main source of cashmere goats when at a time with their numbers are

B) that the world’s main source of cashmere goats could be threatened at a time such as when their numbers are

C) that the world’s main source of cashmere goats could be threatened at a time when their numbers are

D) of the world’s main source of cashmere goats perhaps being threatened at a time with their numbers

E) of perhaps threatening the world’s main source of cashmere goats at a time that their numbers were

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Split 1 - When at a time \ at a time when.
Split 2 - that \ of
Split 3 - there could be a threat \ could be threatened

At a time is when is the correct modifier.
So A, D and E are out

Between B and C, B uses such as which is not required as time is not an example here. The meaning is that the Cashmere goats are threatened at a time when their their numbers are already low.

Hence C is the answer
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Re: Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2020, 07:21
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I also think that answer is C, but Im stuck between C and B.
Cn someone explain that why B is wrong?

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Re: Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest [#permalink] New post   08 Jan 2020, 07:36
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I also think that answer is C, but Im stuck between C and B.
Cn someone explain that why B is wrong?

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B uses such as before when. Such as is used to give example. In the context of this sentence usage of such as is incorrect.
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Re: Cashmere prices rose dramatically Tuesday, reaching their highest [#permalink] New post   06 Apr 2020, 01:35
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

Reading this sentence, we might notice it's a little clunky, and it's hard to tell exactly what's going on. "There could be a threat" to the world's primary source of cashmere goats? Why not just say that those goats "could be threatened"? Also, "when at a time with their numbers" just doesn't make any sense.

Choice (A), the original, is out, so we can be certain one of the other answers will be an improvement.

Choices (B) and (C) look good, at first glance, so let's leave them aside for the moment and check out the other choices.

Choices (D) and (E) refer to the existence of a threat in vague and unappealing ways, like (A) does, so let's eliminate those. Left with choices (B) and (C), we'll choose (C), because (B) uses the clunky and unnecessary phrasing "at a time such as when."

The correct answer is Choice (C).
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