kaijen wrote:
The spectacular disintegration of a comet last year in full view of ground- and space-based telescopes provided new insights into how comets form and may thus force a rethinking of the role of comets in the delivery of organic compounds to the evolving Earth.
Dear experts,
daagh generis GMATNinja AjiteshArunI have highlighted a few doubts in the respective choices. Can you please throw some light on it
(A) The spectacular disintegration of a comet last year in full view of ground- and space-based telescopes provided new insights into how comets form and may thus force
- disintegration provided - Subjet-verb = correct
- "provided" and "thus may force" - parallelism is correct
- No other discernible flaws
(B) The spectacular disintegration of a comet last year in full view of ground- as well as space-based telescopes, provided new insights into how comets form and thus possibly forcing
- "as well as" and "and" cannot be used interchangeably.
- "thus possibly forcing" is not parallel to provided
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Dear experts please confirm if the understanding is correct -use of comma before "provided" forces provided to behave as a verb-ed modifier - Incorrect
-Wrong
(C) When a comet's spectacular disintegration occurred in full view of ground- and space-based telescopes last year, it provided new insights into how comets form and thus may possibly force
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Dear experts please confirm if this interpretation of the meaning is correct -When something happened it provided = I believe there is a subtle change in the meaning because of the use of "when". When defines time - so IMO, the choice says, say the disintegration occured at 3:00 pm --> the disintegration provided new insights - This changes the meaning
- "may" and "possibly" - redundancy
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Dear experts, is there any difference between "thus may force" and "may thus force" (D) Last year, in full view of ground- and space-based telescopes, a comet's spectacular disintegration provided new insights into how comets form and thus possibly forcing
- Incorrect meaning
This choice suggests that the insights were provided last year. We do not know when were these new insights generated. It could be these insights were generated this year
- Use of "thus possible forcing" is not parallel with "provided"
(E) Last year, in full view of ground- as well as space-based telescopes, the spectacular disintegration of a comet has provided new insights into how comets form and may thus force
- Meaning error similar to option D