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Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and bleaching
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Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and bleaching
What are the early warning signs? i)the warming of ocean waters and corresponding rise in sea levels ii)the melting of glaciers iii) the bleaching of coral reefs
These are all complex gerund, a type of gerund that is preceded by an article and can be made parallel to action nouns. Among the answer choices, some choices are not parallel; they have neglected the usage of "the". Among the choices, the best and the answer is D.
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stoy4o wrote:
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and bleaching
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs. Hence correct answer must be (D) _________________
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stoy4o wrote:
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and bleaching
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stoy4o wrote:
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleachingofcoral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and bleaching
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stoy4o wrote:
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleachingofcoral reefs.
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stoy4o wrote:
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and bleaching
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stoy4o wrote:
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters and a corresponding rise in sea levels, melting glaciers, and the bleaching of coral reefs.
A. a corresponding rise in sea levels, [THE] melting [OF] glaciers, and the bleaching of
B. [CORRESPONDENT] rising sea levels, [THE] melting [OF] glaciers, and the bleaching of
C. a correspondence in the[CORRESPONDENT] rise of sea levels, melted glaciers, and bleached
D. a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
E. corresponding[CORRESPONDENT] rising sea levels, [THE] melting [OF] glaciers, and [THE] bleaching [OF]
a corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
shouldnt it be THE corresponding rise in sea levels, the melting of glaciers, and the bleaching of
considering the first part of sentence
Some of the early warning signs of climate change are the warming of ocean waters
generis isn't it parallelism issue because of the.... and a ... articles ?
There are three early signs of climate change: (1) the warming of ocean waters and a connected or resultant (corresponding) rise in sea levels, (2) the melting of glaciers, and (3) the bleaching of coral reefs.
dave13 , in (D) the indefinite article a is correct. You caught a subtle distinction.
Watch the punctuation in this sentence and what that punctuation forces us to do. We can only have three items. The first item has two elements: warm waters and higher sea levels. The word "a" clarifies the list of three by contrast; the list items begin with "the."
• The sentence structure creates a list of signs We have three gerund phrases, not four. The first is longer and more complex than the other two, but it is still a gerund phrase. The gerund phrases are also subject complements that follow the linking verb are.
The sentence structure and options force "the warming of ocean waters" and "the corresponding RISE of sea levels" together. -- and follows waters -- every option has a comma after levels " . are . . . ocean waters and [something about a rise in] sea levels, Warm ocean waters and a rise in sea levels cannot be split. Finally, every option has glaciers + COMMA + and
We cannot escape this construction, given the prompt and our options:
... warming of the oceans AND _________ (1) , ___________ (2) , AND _________ (3).
WRONG: 1 and 2, 3, and 4 We cannot have two ands among four equals. We do not have four equals. We have three.
Correct: 1 and 1a, 2, and 3 Incorrect: 1 and 2, 3, and 4
The indefinite article also helps the reader. The three gerund phrases open with "the," in contrast to "a."
• Do not get bamboozled by the ING in corresponding. Corresponding is an adjective that describes rise and is not a subject complement.
Parallel structure
This question epitomizes why we should eliminate four incorrect answers rather than trying to find and justify the correct answer.
On the GMAT, a list of more than two things always has an "Oxford" comma, a comma before the last item in the list.
WRONG: The farm chores included planting carrots, potato weeding, and the harvesting of squash. CORRECT: The farm chores included planting carrots, weeding potatoes, and harvesting squash.
The first item in the list, The warming of ocean waters sets the structure:
THE + gerund + preposition + adjective + direct object
Split #1: Each item in the list should have the struture THE verbING OF Eliminate A, which should state: THE melting OF glaciers Eliminate B, which should state: THE melting OF glaciers Eliminate E, which should state: THE melting OF glaciers, and THE bleaching (of coral reefs)
Split #2 - the participle should be in the present, that is, verbING . . . NOT verbED Eliminate C, which states incorrectly . . . meltED glacers, and bleachED
Answer D
Hope that helps.
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