Q1) Why are we allowed to ignore adjective "expanding" but not preposition "from" ?
Q2) if we put preposition "from" before "changes in climate" in choice D would parallelism be correct?
because in D, since "changes in climate" lack a preposition, whereas, preceding and anteceding nouns have a preposition (from) it bugs the parallelism but if we add preposition to "changes in climate" it would fix the parallelism
Q3) in answer D, "expanding development" is a simple gerund (ı guess) however "changes in climate" and "pollution" are action noun. How is it possible that action noun be parallel with an simple gerund?
Mehemmed wrote:
I'm confused between D and E. I think D violates the parallelism: "from expanding development, changes in climate, and pollution". Shouldn't it be "from expanding development, changes in climate, and from pollution"?
We have a list of nouns in the correct option (D):
... from (a) expanding development, (b) changes in climate, and (c) pollution...Remember to ignore
expanding (participle) and
in climate (prepositional phrase). Both are just adjectives for their respective nouns.
Option E gives us:
... from (a) expansion of development, (b) changes in climate, and (b) from pollution...We're fine with
expansion (noun) and
changes (noun) in option E, at least as far as parallelism is concerned, but then we hit
from pollution (prepositional phrase). This is unexpected, because we already have a from outside the list. So this option in like saying:
... from expansion of development, from changes in climate, and from from pollution...Those two
froms at the end of the list are a problem.
Mehemmed wrote:
Last but no least, I can't quite understand the use of "so that" in the sentence. As far as I know, "so that" implies intention. For example: "Yesterday, I went to bed early, so that I can get up early in the morning". Here "so that" shows my intention of sleeping early. Am I correct?
You are right.
So that can be used to convey
intention. However, it can
also be used to discuss the
outcome of something. Take the following sentence, for example:
He didn't show up for the movie so that we decided to watch it alone.This example may sound a little (very?) weird, but it is correct.