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The best strategy for preventing hip fractures among residents of geriatric homes is to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise.
A. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise
B. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment and a combination of balance training to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
C. if hazards are eliminated from the residential environment and combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
D. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment and, combined with balance training, to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
E. if before bone loss develops, residents combine balance training and encourage an increase of bone density with diet and weight-bearing exercise while residential environments are eliminated of hazards
28 Nov 2020, 23:01
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
→ the word and is a parallelism marker: X and Y, in which X and Y are logically similar and the same parts of speech
• Meaning is strange.
→ elimination of hazards can prevent falls that lead to hip fractures, but preventing bone loss is connected to diet and weight-bearing exercise.
→ the sentence would make more sense if [i]bone loss were closer to diet and ...exercise.[/i]
THE OPTIONS
→ balance training is noun. To encourage is an infinitive.
→ Components of the strategy must be parallel.
→ Do not be fooled by to encourage: that phrase is parallel to "to eliminate," but we look to the "head nouns" on either side of the and in order to check for parallelism. In this option, in X and Y
X = to eliminate [hazards]
Y = a combination [of balance training in order to encourage an increase in bone density]
Not parallel.
ELIMINATE B
• The best strategy is IF?
→ The word if is used for conditionals.
Correct: The best strategy is X and Y.
Correct: The best strategy is X, Y, and Z.
• Also nonsensical: how can hazards be both eliminated and combined with balance training?
→ If hazards are eliminated . . . and combined. . . ????
The subject of the clause is hazards, which is tied, nonsensically, to two verbs: are eliminated and [are] combined
→ Fractures will not be prevented if hazards . . . are combined with balance training.
ELIMINATE C
→ to eliminate is parallel to to courage
→ combined with balance training is now properly a parenthetical (an aside) and does not disrupt the parallelism of the two list items
KEEP
• The rest of this answer choice is odd at best and illogical at worst.
→ The subject is now residents.
The verbs combine and encourage are grammatical (right tense) but not logical.
→ The residents could themselves combine balance training with something
→ But the residents cannot themselves encourage an increase in bone density: diet and weight bearing exercise do that.
→ finally, combine balance training with what
To combine means to add one thing to another, but in (E) balance training stands alone and is not combined with anything.
• Not idiomatic: residential environments are eliminated of hazards
Wow, that phrasing is horrible.
We can say that "hazards are eliminated FROM environments" or that "residential environments are PURGED of hazards," (though the latter is weird), but we cannot use "are eliminated" in this way. The phrase does not mean "to be free from."
ELIMINATE E
COMMENTS
lokesh5 , welcome to SC Butler.
gmat1393 , good to see you, my eagle-eyed and helpful friend. Edited, finally.
I am impressed. These answers are really good.
Very nicely done.
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC2)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
The best strategy for preventing hip fractures among residents of geriatric homes is to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise.
• The components of "the best strategy for preventing hip fractures" must be parallel; that is, the components must be logically similar and the same parts of speech→ the word and is a parallelism marker: X and Y, in which X and Y are logically similar and the same parts of speech
• Meaning is strange.
→ elimination of hazards can prevent falls that lead to hip fractures, but preventing bone loss is connected to diet and weight-bearing exercise.
→ the sentence would make more sense if [i]bone loss were closer to diet and ...exercise.[/i]
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
A. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise
• balance training and to encourage, which are connected by and, should be parallel but are not→ balance training is noun. To encourage is an infinitive.
Quote:
B. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment and a combination of balance training to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
• to eliminate and a combination are not parallel though they are "flagged" by the word and.→ Components of the strategy must be parallel.
→ Do not be fooled by to encourage: that phrase is parallel to "to eliminate," but we look to the "head nouns" on either side of the and in order to check for parallelism. In this option, in X and Y
X = to eliminate [hazards]
Y = a combination [of balance training in order to encourage an increase in bone density]
Not parallel.
ELIMINATE B
Quote:
C. if hazards are eliminated from the residential environment and combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
Wow. This option is a hot mess.• The best strategy is IF?
→ The word if is used for conditionals.
Correct: The best strategy is X and Y.
Correct: The best strategy is X, Y, and Z.
• Also nonsensical: how can hazards be both eliminated and combined with balance training?
→ If hazards are eliminated . . . and combined. . . ????
The subject of the clause is hazards, which is tied, nonsensically, to two verbs: are eliminated and [are] combined
→ Fractures will not be prevented if hazards . . . are combined with balance training.
ELIMINATE C
Quote:
D. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment and, combined with balance training, to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
• bingo. → to eliminate is parallel to to courage
→ combined with balance training is now properly a parenthetical (an aside) and does not disrupt the parallelism of the two list items
KEEP
Quote:
E. if before bone loss develops, residents combine balance training and encourage an increase of bone density with diet and weight-bearing exercise while residential environments are eliminated of hazards
• same problem as that in (C): it is ungrammatical to say that "The best strategy is IF . . ."• The rest of this answer choice is odd at best and illogical at worst.
→ The subject is now residents.
The verbs combine and encourage are grammatical (right tense) but not logical.
→ The residents could themselves combine balance training with something
→ But the residents cannot themselves encourage an increase in bone density: diet and weight bearing exercise do that.
→ finally, combine balance training with what
To combine means to add one thing to another, but in (E) balance training stands alone and is not combined with anything.
• Not idiomatic: residential environments are eliminated of hazards
Wow, that phrasing is horrible.
We can say that "hazards are eliminated FROM environments" or that "residential environments are PURGED of hazards," (though the latter is weird), but we cannot use "are eliminated" in this way. The phrase does not mean "to be free from."
ELIMINATE E
COMMENTS
lokesh5 , welcome to SC Butler.
gmat1393 , good to see you, my eagle-eyed and helpful friend. Edited, finally.
I am impressed. These answers are really good.
Very nicely done.
28 Nov 2020, 23:06
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The best strategy for preventing hip fractures among residents of geriatric homes is to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise.
The best strategy for preventing hip fractures among residents of geriatric homes is to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise.
A. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment before bone loss develops, combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise
B. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment and a combination of balance training to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
C. if hazards are eliminated from the residential environment and combined with balance training and to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
D. to eliminate hazards from the residential environment and, combined with balance training, to encourage an increase of bone density through diet and weight-bearing exercise, before bone loss develops
E. if before bone loss develops, residents combine balance training and encourage an increase of bone density with diet and weight-bearing exercise while residential environments are eliminated of hazards
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