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Question

Responding to the worsening famine, relief efforts were provided by the United States to assist by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys.

A. Responding to the worsening famine, relief was provided by the United States by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, and bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
B. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, and bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
C. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
D. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States decided to provide relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys.
E. Responding to the worsening famine, relief provided by the United States to airlift food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys

souvik101990 · Answer

Official Solution:

Responding to the worsening famine, relief efforts were provided by the United States to assist by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys.

A. Responding to the worsening famine, relief was provided by the United States by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, and bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
B. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, and bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
C. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
D. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States decided to provide relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys.
E. Responding to the worsening famine, relief provided by the United States to airlift food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys

A. Misplaced modification; The United States should come after the comma the phrase after ‘and bypassing’ is a fragment.
 
B. Correct modification but the phrase after and bypassing’ is a fragment.
 
 C. Correct. .
 
D. ‘decided to provide’ is distortion of original meaning.
 
E. Misplaced modification after the initial modifier.

Answer: C

guilopesmartins · Answer

Is there any problem with the use of "thus" in answer choice D?
I am not being able to see a problem with answer choice D. I think that "decided to provide" changes the meaning as souvik101990 mentioned, but the meaning is still logical and, therefore, acceptable. Would anybody disagree with that?

Any thoughts?

Thank you club members.
Thank you souvik101990 for posting that question.

chaitanya87 · Answer

I have the same doubt as martin has.

sayantanc2k · Answer

When there are more than 1 grammatically correct sentences, the one that matches in meaning with the original sentence should be selected (if the original sentence does not convey an absurd meaning).

BrulesRules · Answer

just as answer choice D changes the meaning with "decided to provide", so to does answer choice C when it lists "by  airlifting  food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution,  bypassing  congested ports and  reducing   the need to send out convoys"

Those 3 verbs could be taken to mean parallel actions no?

In the original sentence, the meaning is that the US decided to airlift the food  in part   so that they could bypass the ports and reduce the need to send convoys (the original includes "thus").

Is this slight change in meaning in answer choice C less  egregious  than the meaning change in D, and thus C is the right choice?

Thanks!

RenanBragion · Answer

I think this is a  high-quality  question and I agree with explanation.

TBT · Answer

I also have the same concern as Brules. C distorts the meaning.

vabogabir · Answer

i agree that airlifting...., bypassing...., and reducing are in paralell form, but by airlifting they are bypassing thus reducing the need to send out a convoy.

I think that "C" changes the meaning of the sentence "forcing" a parallel form and that "D" is a better choice

BrunaSparenberg · Answer

I think this is a  poor-quality  question. Hi guys!
The statement of this question and the letter a is different.
"relief efforts were provided by the United 
States to assist by.." x "relief was provided by the United States by.."

singhall · Answer

To all the Verbal experts,

I have issues understanding parallelism in answer choice C. 
Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys

If I break this sentence, it would be

Responding to the worsening famine (Modifier)
the United States (Modified noun) provided relief by 
--airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution
--bypassing congested ports
--reducing the need to send out convoys

If these three are parallel, the sentence should still makes sense if I remove any parallel entity.
These come out as three ways in which US provided relief. IMO it doesn't convey a logical meaning. 
For this reason, I discarded this and chose D which did come out with a different meaning but was logical and grammatically correct.

I am really struggling with SC, and want to get my fundamentals into position. Please correct me if I am wrong in my approach w.r.t. parrallelism or this question.

BottomJee · Answer

I think this is a  high-quality  question and I agree with explanation.

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