Global warming is said to be responsible for extreme weather changes,
which, like the heavy rains that caused more than $ 2 billion in damages and led to flooding throughout the state of California, and the heat wave in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States, which was also the cause of a great amount of damage and destruction.
Issues:
Modifiers | MeaningAnalysis:
1. The clause "Global warming is said to be responsible for extreme weather changes" is an independent clause followed by 2 examples of extreme weather changes.
2. Looking at the options there is a split between "such as" and "like".
"such as" should be used to enumerate examples.
I have highlighted the errors below:
(A) which, like the heavy rains that caused more than $2 billion in damages and led to flooding throughout the state of California,
- If you remove "like the heavy rains...", the sentence reads ".... extreme weather changes, which ? and the heat wave". - Fragment
(B) which, like the heavy rains that throughout the state of California caused more than $2 billion in damages and led to flooding,
- Structure issue which leads to non-sensical statement [same as (A)]
(C) like the heavy flooding that, because of rains throughout the state of California, caused more than $2 billion in damages,
- "like" used to introduce examples
(D) such as the
heavy flooding that led to rains throughout the state of California causing more than $2 billion in damages,
- "heavy flooding that led to rains" is non-sensical.
(E) such as the
heavy rains that led to flooding throughout the state of California, causing more than $2 billion in damages,
- Corrects all the issues