TheUltimateWinner wrote:
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Clouds are formed from the evaporation of the oceans’ water that is warmed by the Sun and rises high into the atmosphere, condensing in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust.
(A) Clouds are formed from the evaporation of the oceans’ water that is warmed by the Sun and rises high into the atmosphere, condensing in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust.
(C) Warmed by the Sun, ocean water evaporates, rises high into the atmosphere, and condenses in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust to form clouds.
(D) The water in the oceans evaporates, warmed by the Sun, rises high into the atmosphere, and condenses in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust, which forms clouds.
Hello Experts,
MartyTargetTestPrep,
GMATNinja,
GMATGuruNY,
AjiteshArun,
VeritasPrepHailey,
AndrewNIt's hard to digest the meaning of the correct choice C! Should I consider the whole sentence is the list of 3 items of the action(evaporates, rises, and condenses)? Or, should I consider the 'rises high into the atmosphere' is the modification of 'ocean water evaporates'? It seems they are the items of 3 actions. But, what role the 'warmed by the Sun' part play in choice D? Is it modifier? If this one is the modifier, and if we withdraw that part (with COMMA), then the reaming part could be:
(D)
The water in the oceans evaporates, warmed by the Sun, rises high into the atmosphere, and condenses in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust, which forms clouds.^^
(D)
The water in the oceans evaporates (without comma) rises high into the atmosphere, and condenses in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust, which forms clouds.Two verbs trying to be the verb at a time of one subject! so, that seems wrong. This one is my explanation.
Q: How can we remove (other than WHICH part) choice D? Can you share your own thought, please?
Thanks in Advanced...
Good questions,
TheUltimateWinner. I also see (C) as a list, for the reason you provided. If the second verb were turned into
rising instead, then it would indeed be serving as a modifier, but since it is conjugated the same way as
evaporates and
condenses, we are left with a list. In (D),
warmed by the sun is logically modifying
the water, jumping over the prepositional phrase and verb. It would be better placed before the verb, though, for clarity, rather than disrupting the list of actions. Consider:
The water in the oceans, warmed by the Sun, evaporates, rises high into the atmosphere, and condenses in tiny droplets on minute particles of dust, which forms clouds.Yes, we still have that
which clause at the end, but if I have come up with a reason to doubt the placement of a phrase in (D), and my altered sentence better resembles (C), then I will only feel more confident getting behind the harder-to-argue-against answer in (C).
I hope that helps. Thank you for thinking to ask me.
- Andrew
Thanks for the feedback.
by the highlighted part. It seems that the highlighted part does not work! If we put the 'warmed by the Sun' part before the verb (evaporates), it essentially means that 'warmed by the Sun' part is going to modify only 'The water in the oceans'. Now we can ask questions like:
. Right? But, why did we use the word 'warm'? Actually, 'warm' is connected with the verb 'evaporates'. So, we must keep the modifier after 'evaporates' or before 'The water in the oceans (good version: ocean water)'. I don't know that i missed anything.