Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing appeals to people d

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 correct

(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

Although "due to" is wrongly used in the options, there are other take away from the question.

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 -Correct.

(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 -Wrong. Modifier wrongly modifies appeal

(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 -Wrong. Modifier wrongly modifies appeal

(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 -Violence can't be graceful or serene. The adverbs are wrongly modifying "violent"

(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 -Wrong. Pronoun "their" doesn't make any sense

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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...

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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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.

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.