There is no agreement on what role, if any, is played by

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158.There is no agreement on what role, if any, is played by diet in  slowing the growth or destroying  pre-cancerous cells in a benign brain tumor. 

A. slowing the growth or destroying
B. the damage or the slowing of the growth of 
C. the damage to or the slowing of the growth of 
D. destroyed or slow growth of
E. destroying or slowing the growth of

forrestgump · Answer

A it is...

Is parallel.

E comes close, but by putting "destroying" before "slowing" it changes the meaning, and it seems that "destroying" isnt attached to anything at all.

meenu · Answer

I Concur, it should be E as slowing the growth should be followed by 'of'

Antmavel · Answer

I don't think E is correct, I have the same feeling than forestgump :
I think that in E it can be confusing because the meaning could be "destroying...the growth of"
it's clear that you can destroy cells but you can't destroy any growth :-D

this is why I would pick A

this is why I would pick A

Paul · Answer

E must be it. Here is how you must look at E:

There is no agreement on what role, if any, is played by diet in 
1- destroying  pre-cancerous cells in a benign brain tumor ]
or 
2- slowing the growth of  pre-cancerous cells in a benign brain tumor . 

In brackets for #1 is the object of the verb "destroying" and you can see how it perfectly connect to each of the verbs "destroying" and "slowing"

This is what A erroneously does:

There is no agreement on what role, if any, is played by diet in 
1- slowing the growth  pre-cancerous cells in a benign brain tumor ]
or 
2- destroying  pre-cancerous cells in a benign brain tumor .

Do you see that #2 is alright but #1 misses "of" to properly connect the object and make it the preposition of noun "growth"?

pb_india · Answer

E it is.
Paul is right in money.
We need "of" which is missing from A.
This is very similar to OG SC (damagining and destroying trees..)

amit_drummer · Answer

Definitely E without any doubt. Even though 'A' maintains parallelism, it is not correct. E is the pick.

DLMD · Answer

i am a bandwagon

, and I go with E

There is no agreement on what role, if any, is played by

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