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Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops among people in their common quest to conquer nature.

(A) surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

(B) surfing’s appeal is its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

(C) surfing’s appeal to people is due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and developing camaraderie

(D) surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, a backdrop that is unpredictable and that is, by turns, gracefully and serenely violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

(E) surfing appeals to people due to their unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

A very good question for practicing modifiers .

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Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians should modify "surfing " . B and D does not have proper noun that the highlighted modifier modifies.So they are out
E is out because it uses their for the singular noun Surfing
Between A and D
We difference in the placement of "that " and in D that is used twice which i think is not necessary . There is error in the parallel list as well gracefully and serenely violent and formidable .Here gracefully and serenely act as adverbs so they should modify violent .This does not make sense .
A is more concise and is elegant as compared to D
So the answer is A
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The most important is to recognize the three parallel elements and its breakdown as in answer choice A.

The Surfing appeals to people due to the sport's unusual confluence of x,y, and z, an unpredictable backdrop that is x, y(i and ii), and z, and the camaraderie...
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I would eliminate D and E because Due to in both of them when replaced by Caused by distorts the sentence.

Does anyone think like me? Am I right in eliminating D and E like that... please help..

All the options are grammatically incorrect.
"Due" is an adjective and hence it should be used to refer to a noun.
The appeal was due to... is correct. (due is an adjective for the noun appeal)
Surfing appeals due to... is wrong. ( due is wrongly used as an adverb for the verb appeals)

For the above reason A, D and E can be eliminated.

B and C are wrong because of modifier error. Surfing's appeal was not developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing was.

Note: one small suggestion - do not replace "due to" with " caused by" to check whether the usage is alright. A more efficient and conceptually more solid way is to see whether "due to" is used as an adjective and "because of" as an adverb. A quick tip: "due to" follows verb "to be" (because "due to" is adjective) - "because of" follows other verbs ( because "because of" is adverb.)


sayantanc2k could you please elaborate the note, you provided regarding the use of due to Vs because of , with examples?

Thank you sayantanc2k

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lmao what a sentence.
Took me as a non native around 2 mins to complete and understand it fully.

Problem with such sentences is that I don't even know where to start to look for errors.

To me A) sounded correct from the beginning so I probably will just stick to A) in terms of complicated sentences when I don't find a obvious mistake in the first answer choice.
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I would eliminate D and E because Due to in both of them when replaced by Caused by distorts the sentence.

Does anyone think like me? Am I right in eliminating D and E like that... please help..

All the options are grammatically incorrect.
"Due" is an adjective and hence it should be used to refer to a noun.
The appeal was due to... is correct. (due is an adjective for the noun appeal)
Surfing appeals due to... is wrong. ( due is wrongly used as an adverb for the verb appeals)

For the above reason A, D and E can be eliminated.

B and C are wrong because of modifier error. Surfing's appeal was not developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing was.

Note: one small suggestion - do not replace "due to" with " caused by" to check whether the usage is alright. A more efficient and conceptually more solid way is to see whether "due to" is used as an adjective and "because of" as an adverb. A quick tip: "due to" follows verb "to be" (because "due to" is adjective) - "because of" follows other verbs ( because "because of" is adverb.)


sayantanc2k could you please elaborate the note, you provided regarding the use of due to Vs because of , with examples?

Thank you sayantanc2k

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Visit https://e-gmat.com/blogs/due-to-vs-because-of/ to understand the difference between the two phrases. It's important to do since these two phrases are quite frequently tested against each other.
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Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops among people in their common quest to conquer nature.

(A) surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

(B) surfing’s appeal is its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

(C) surfing’s appeal to people is due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and developing camaraderie

(D) surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, a backdrop that is unpredictable and that is, by turns, gracefully and serenely violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

(E) surfing appeals to people due to their unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops


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Error Analysis:

No error.

Process of Elimination:

A. Correct.

B. Wrong. "Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians" illogically modifies "surfing’s appeal".

C. Wrong. Same modifier error as in B. Also, "developing camaraderie" is not parallel to "sport’s unusual confluence..." and "an unpredictable backdrop..."

D. Wrong. "a backdrop that is unpredictable" is wordy, however, it's not a conclusive error. Also, "serenely violent" makes incorrect sense, and therefore leads to a modifier error.

E. Wrong. "their" can refer only to people, but not logically because "unusual confluence of adrenaline..." modifies appeal of surfing and not people.

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