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Question

Guys,

Varieties of influenza range in severity from  mild flus, treatable with bed rest and lasting only a few days, to  acute forms, such as bacterial pneumonia, that are potentially fatal. 
 
 
A. mild flus, treatable with bed rest and lasting only a few days, to 
 
B. mild flus, treatable with bed rest and last only a few days, to 
 
C. mild flus, treatable with bed rest, and they last only a few days, to 
 
D. those mild flus, able to be treated with bed rest and in duration only a few days, to those 
 
E. those mild flus which are treatable with bed rest and which last only a few days to those

mallelac · Answer

I pick up A. The only competitor is E as the rest suffer from grammar errors.

E seems to be too verbose to be correct. I did not like the usage of 'which' & 'that' essentially doing the same stuff.

The erroneous parts of the BCD are marked with 'red' color.

crisnas · Answer

hmm..between A and E, I wud choose E.
I still feel a pronoun is very much necessary in A to make it sound correct.


OA/OE Plz.

Krishna

ywilfred · Answer

Thought I don't really like E, but I'll go with choice E. Choice A doesn't seem right to me.

mallelac · Answer

I see your point here. I think you are right. The following anaologies may help solve the issue very easily.

The cars, which are fast, are sold these days.

'The' is very improtant because the subsequent sub-clause is describing a particular section of the cars.

coffeeloverfreak · Answer

I'm thinking it's A. We don't need "those" because we're simply enumerating types of diseases.

rahulraao · Answer

OA is A guys!

nupurgupt · Answer

I think it should be E. 

Consider, the following 2 options

Varieties of influenza range in severity from mild flus,......., to acute forms, such as bacterial pneumonia, that are potentially fatal.

versus

Varieties of influenza range in severity from those mild flus......to those acute forms, such as bacterial pneumonia, that are potentially fatal.

I think the second one sounds way more parallel

I am not convinced by the OA being A

Any thoughts?

dwivedys · Answer

Well E - slightly distorts the meaning - Those Mild flus .... to those acute forms ... suggests that Both Mild Flus and the acute forms have variations within them - this doesn't seem plausible - you have a MILD form and an acute FORM - you can't have a VARIETY of Mild and Acute forms respectively. Mild and Acute forms themselves ARE the varieties that the sentence is talking about.
However, I concede that E is grammatically correct but is not acceptable because it's wordy and also as I have explained subtly distorts the meaning.

dahcrap · Answer

Wow. Great explanation. I fell for the trap and chose E

dwivedys · Answer

In general - one should be careful of the long answer choices. They are  usually  incorrect. Before choosing a long answer choice one should make doubly sure that all other choices have at least one grammatical error.

nupurgupt · Answer

Thanks for your explanation....that definitely clears things up

FN · Answer

yup A on this dwvideys...good explanation...remember short and simple is the name of the game in SC

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