Research on "rogue waves" abnormally huge waves, often 25 meters hig

Research on "rogue waves" – abnormally huge waves, often 25 meters high, that sink about 10 huge ships per year – is moving beyond simple recording of their occurrences and it will soon be focused on creating models to predict times and locations of such waves.


A. it will soon be focused on creating models to predict times and locations of such waves

PARALLELISM error..no pronoun required, since both dependent phrases refer to the 'research'..
It should be..
Research on "rogue waves" is moving....and will soon be focused on...

B. will soon be focused on creating models to predict times and locations of such waves

CORRECT option..
no parallelism error..
Both...times and locations...pertain to same noun ie, waves

C. will soon be focused on creating models to predict times and the locations of such waves

INCORRECT, since not intending to convet predict X (times) and Y (locations of rogue waves)...use of 'the' is inappropriate

D. will be focused soon on creating models to predict times of such waves and where they will be located


antecedent of pronoun 'they' is inappropriate..'they' is referrring to the 'times of such waves', while it should be referring to 'rogue waves'


E. will soon be focused on creating models to predict the when and where of such waves
unidiomatic usage...the when and where of X..

(B) is the CORRECT answer

Hope this helps

Official Explanation:

This sentence contains a compound main verb "is moving . . . and . . . will". The word "it" interrupts this construction and creates a run-on sentence. So we eliminate (A).

(C) violates parallel structure by using "predict times and the locations", so we eliminate (C). Note that, if the sentence read, "predict the times and locations", it would not violate parallel structure, since the second "the", before "locations", would be implied.

(D) also violates parallel structure by using "times of such waves and where they will be located', so we eliminate (D).

(E) may appear to be correct; however, the use of "when" and "where" as nouns is much too informal to be correct on a Sentence Correction question. Therefore, we eliminate (E) and are left with (B), our correct answer.

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