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The return of El Nino, which spreads warm water temperatures across the equatorial East Pacific, is expected to increase global temperature to the highest levels ever, inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists attempting to understand the reasons for climatic changes.

A. inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists attempting

B. inaugurating a new era of more rapid warming, to provide a challenge to scientists, and to attempt

C. to inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, to provide a challenge to scientists who attempt

D. to inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, providing a challenge to scientists that are attempting

E. to inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists who attempt

Vyshak, it has been edited ( "editted" is incorrect)



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Re: The return of El Nino, which spreads warm water temperatures across th [#permalink] New post   02 Dec 2017, 19:43
chesstitans wrote:
The return of El Nino, which spreads warm water temperatures across the equatorial East Pacific, is expected to increase global temperature to the highest levels ever, inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists attempting to understand the reasons for climatic changes.


You have forgotten to post the options. So, please complete the question.
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Re: The return of El Nino, which spreads warm water temperatures across th [#permalink] New post   03 Dec 2017, 06:55
chesstitans wrote:
The return of El Nino, which spreads warm water temperatures across the equatorial East Pacific, is expectedto increase global temperature to the highest levels ever, inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists attempting to understand the reasons for climatic changes.

A. inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists attempting

B. inaugurating a new era of more rapid warming, to provide a challenge to scientists, and to attempt

C. to inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, to provide a challenge to scientists who attempt

D. to inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, providing a challenge to scientists that are attempting

E. to inaugurate a new era of more rapid warming, and to provide a challenge to scientists who attempt

Vyshak, it has been edited ( "editted" is incorrect)


Option E
highlighted portion above needs to be parallel as well modifier for scientist to be used correctly.

the portion " scientists attempting to understand the reasons for climatic changes." incorrectly specifies the group of identified scientists only involved to understand the challenge,which certainly distorts the meaning of sentence

Ans E

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