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West winds are formed from the evaporation of the seas’ water that is heated by the Sun and rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents.

Meaning: The water of the sea evaporates and rises into the aerosphere to form WW. Sun heats the seawater. This evaporated water crates large zones of surface current.


A. West winds are formed from the evaporation of the seas’ water that is heated by the Sun and rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents

Incorrect: 1. Passive construction (But not crime)
2.possessive noun
3. modifier - creating large zones of surface current - seems to modify WW. This is incorrect


B. West winds form by the Sun’s heat evaporating the water in the seas, which rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents
Incorrect:
It seems like WW forms by heat, not by evaporated water


C. Heated by the Sun, sea water evaporates, rises high into the aerosphere, and creates large zones of surface currents to form West winds

Correct: evaporates, rises and creates maintain parallelism.

D. The water in the seas evaporated, warmed by the Sun, rises high into the aerosphere, and creates large zones of surface currents, which forms West winds
Incorrect:
Modifier - warmed by the sun- modifying water or sea?
which forms - incorrect modifier

E. Sea water, warmed by the Sun, evaporates and rises high into the aerosphere, which then creates large zones of surface currents to create as West winds
Incorrect:
which incorrectly modifies aerosphere.

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The subject (West winds) performs an action (create large zones of surface current by rising high into the aerosphere). The subject (West winds) is produced as a result of actions that include evaporation of sea water heated by the Sun.

The correct answer will appropriately match the subject with its action and make clear how the subject arises.

A. West winds are formed from the evaporation of the seas’ water that is heated by the Sun and rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents

Improperly suggests that the Sun rises high into the aerosphere and that the Sun creates large zones of surface currents. The conjuction (and) improperly separates the main sibject from its action.

B. West winds form by the Sun’s heat evaporating the water in the seas, which rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents

Improperly suggests that the seas rise high into the aerosphere and create create large zones of surface currents. The comma after the word "seas" improperly separates the main sibject from its action. The sentence is awkward.

C. Heated by the Sun, sea water evaporates, rises high into the aerosphere, and creates large zones of surface currents to form West winds

CORRECT. The sentence correctly states that sea water evaporates due to heating by the Sun, that it rises high into the aerosphere and that it creates large zones of surface currents to form West winds. The main subject is directly connected to the action of the creation of West winds.

D. The water in the seas evaporated, warmed by the Sun, rises high into the aerosphere, and creates large zones of surface currents, which forms West winds

Improperly changes tenses. Improperly states that the evaporation of the sea water and its warming by the Sun occurred in the past. This past occurrence is incorrectly tied to its present action of rising high into the aerosphere and creating large zones of surface currents, which forms West winds.

E. Sea water, warmed by the Sun, evaporates and rises high into the aerosphere, which then creates large zones of surface currents to create as West winds

Improperly states that the aerosphere creates large zones of surface currents and West winds.
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West winds are formed from the evaporation of the seas’ water that is heated by the Sun and rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents.


A. West winds are formed from the evaporation of the seas’ water that is heated by the Sun and rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents

B. West winds form by the Sun’s heat evaporating the water in the seas, which rises high into the aerosphere, creating large zones of surface currents

C. Heated by the Sun, sea water evaporates, rises high into the aerosphere, and creates large zones of surface currents to form West winds

D. The water in the seas evaporated, warmed by the Sun, rises high into the aerosphere, and creates large zones of surface currents, which forms West winds

E. Sea water, warmed by the Sun, evaporates and rises high into the aerosphere, which then creates large zones of surface currents to create as West winds



 

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A. There is a lack of parallelism. ‘Evaporation’ and ‘rises into the aerosphere’ is redundant.

B. Incorrectly placed "which". It seems like the seas itself rises high into the aerosphere.

C. Correct Answer. Correct parallelism - Evaporates, rises, condenses. Correctly placed phrases and modifiers

D. the placement of the modifier "heated by the sun" is incorrect. The past-participle modifier must refer to a noun phrase immediately before it (not present here).

E. "which" refers to the aerosphere. "to form as West winds". The use of "as" is not required.

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I don’t understand this explanation.
I see why (A) isn’t correct, but how come (C) is correct?

Even though its parallelism has done correctly, how come sea water can rises high into the aerosphere?
Its steam or evaporated sea water should rises into the aerosohere isn’t it?

(C) is literally saying

Sea water
    -1. evaporates
    -2. rises
    -3. creates

However, between those three verbs do not have any causality or sequence to connect those three actions because it’s connected by “and”.

How come sea water rises into the aerosphere, and creates large zones???

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It seems to me that there's a subtle meaning change in choice C from the original sentence as shown below:

original sentence: evaporation and rising into the aerosphere results in creating large zones of surface currents. (using comma + verb-ing to express the result after evaporation and rising happen)

choice C: sea water evaporates, rises high, and creates large zones of surface currents to form West winds <- ( only expressing what happens to sea water without explaining the "result").

I hope my confusion makes sense and please let me know if I am missing something.
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