ammuseeru wrote:
Tooth whiteners in toothpastes contain mild abrasives that have the capacity to remove stains on tooth enamel
and improve tooth appearance, enough for less use of microabrasion techniques and keeping costs down for customers desiring brighter teeth.
(A) and improve tooth appearance, enough for less use of microabrasion techniques and keeping costs down for
(B) and improve tooth appearance enough for microabrasion techniques to be used less and to keep costs down for
(C) for improved tooth appearance, enough for lessening use of microabrasion techniques and for keeping costs down of
(D) to improve tooth appearance, enough to limit use of microabrasion techniques and to keep costs down for
(E) to improve enough tooth appearance to use microabrasion techniques less and keep costs down for
carcass,
what is the official OA for this question ?
Thanks,
The OA is D.
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:
Answer: DThe sentence appears to test parallelism. Before the comma, we have "remove stains...and improve tooth appearance" (which is grammatically correct) and after the comma, we have "for less use...and keeping costs down," which is incorrect. "Less use and lower costs" would be better; in any event, those two benefits of whiteners must be parallel, so (A) is incorrect.
Continue focusing on the second parallelism issue. (B) is wrong because "to be used less" and "to keep costs down" are not parallel. While in (C), "for lessening use" and "for keeping costs down" is technically parallel, neither phrase is idiomatic. It's rare that "for –ing" will be correct.
Choice (E) is wrong because it alters the meaning of the sentence. By placing the word "enough" before "tooth appearance," it refers to some amount of tooth appearance. In the original construction, "enough" is synonymous with "sufficiently," meaning that the whiteners improve appearance sufficiently to require less use of other techniques. Choice (D), then, must be correct.