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The plural of usage is usages? Can experts clarify?
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The plural of usage is usages? Can experts clarify?

Trying to bump this up. daagh mikemcgarry egmat bb Bunuel
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Rainfall is, after all, limited in quantity, and the availability of H2O in our rivers and lakes is decreasing rapidly as population grows, agricultural and industrial usages increase and lifestyle changes occur.

A. as population grows, agricultural and industrial usages increase and lifestyle changes occur.

B. as populations rise, agricultural and industrial usage increases and lifestyle change occur.

C. as population figures rise, agricultural and industrial usage is on the increase and lifestyle changes occur.

D. as populations rise, agricultural and industrial usages increase and lifestyle changes occur.

E. as populations rise, agricultural and industrial uses increase and lifestyle changes occur.


IMO, the answer is A. I do not understand how come 'populations rise' is better than 'population grows'. Furthermore, option D does not even follow parallelism. Please explain in simple English. Thank you.
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Rainfall is, after all, limited in quantity, and the availability of H2O in our rivers and lakes is decreasing rapidly as population grows, agricultural and industrial usages increase and lifestyle changes occur.

A. as population grows, agricultural and industrial usages increase and lifestyle changes occur.

B. as populations rise, agricultural and industrial usage increases and lifestyle change occur.

C. as population figures rise, agricultural and industrial usage is on the increase and lifestyle changes occur.

D. as populations rise, agricultural and industrial usages increase and lifestyle changes occur.

E. as populations rise, agricultural and industrial uses increase and lifestyle changes occur.


IMO, the answer is A. I do not understand how come 'populations rise' is better than 'population grows'. Furthermore, option D does not even follow parallelism. Please explain in simple English. Thank you.

It's problematic first and most simply because it is not idiomatic. The major flag however is 'population' needs to be plural.

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can someone please clarify is Population(s) singular or plural? Imo, singular, because we're talking about a collection of similar objects. Perhaps,its collective noun?

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IMO answer should be A.
Experts could you please help with this question.
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IMO (which is built after reading several posts here on gmatclub) When we say population of tigers or population of lions, here we are talking about population of single type of things (homogeneous things). But when we want to talk about the population of different entities (heterogeneous items) we use populations. Something like hair & hairs.

Hope I am correct, can anybody please shed some light here? GMATNinja
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