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In the field of eugenics, geneticists have thoroughly scrutinized the human genome and its ability to shape certain traits to select and pre-determine an increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, each “ready to order” to parents’ specifications.
(A) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, each
(B) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in those not yet born, and each one
(C) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in those unborn who are
(D) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, all of them
(E) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn
(A) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, each
(B) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in those not yet born, and each one
(C) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in those unborn who are
(D) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, all of them
(E) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn
06 Aug 2015, 21:56
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1. There seems to be a transcription error; Is ‘an” underlined or not? Much of the confusion may be due to this ‘typo’
2. ‘Increasing’ is an adjective modifying the noun number. ‘Increasingly’ is an adverb modifying the adjective ‘impressive’; ‘increasingly impressive’ is the correct usage
3. It is critical to decide what is or are ‘ready to order’ to parent’s specifications. It is obviously not the characteristics, since the word ‘ready to order’ is not preceded by any comma and it directly refers to the unborn,
A) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, each –adjectives cannot modify adjectives. Eliminate
B) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in those not yet born, and each one – the phrase starting with ‘each’ is a modifier; a modifier cannot be connected with an ‘and’ – eliminate
C) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in those unborn who are - usage of increasing is wrong – same as in A; eliminate
D) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, all of them – ‘an increasingly impressive number of’ means plural ; then ‘all of them’ may fit in; If you do not add the ‘an’, then the word ‘ number’ becomes the subject, and the word is singular; then ‘all of them’ is out of place. Alternatively we can say ‘increasingly impressive numbers’ to make it plural to suit’ all of them’
E) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn – This is correct choice, with ‘ready to order’ modifying the unborn forthwith.
2. ‘Increasing’ is an adjective modifying the noun number. ‘Increasingly’ is an adverb modifying the adjective ‘impressive’; ‘increasingly impressive’ is the correct usage
3. It is critical to decide what is or are ‘ready to order’ to parent’s specifications. It is obviously not the characteristics, since the word ‘ready to order’ is not preceded by any comma and it directly refers to the unborn,
A) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, each –adjectives cannot modify adjectives. Eliminate
B) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in those not yet born, and each one – the phrase starting with ‘each’ is a modifier; a modifier cannot be connected with an ‘and’ – eliminate
C) increasing impressive number of physiological characteristics in those unborn who are - usage of increasing is wrong – same as in A; eliminate
D) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn, all of them – ‘an increasingly impressive number of’ means plural ; then ‘all of them’ may fit in; If you do not add the ‘an’, then the word ‘ number’ becomes the subject, and the word is singular; then ‘all of them’ is out of place. Alternatively we can say ‘increasingly impressive numbers’ to make it plural to suit’ all of them’
E) increasingly impressive number of physiological characteristics in the unborn – This is correct choice, with ‘ready to order’ modifying the unborn forthwith.
11 Jun 2014, 23:06
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Here the word "Impressive" modifies the word "number".
the word that modifies impressive should be Increasingly. So we can clearly eliminate A and C.
Increasing is an adjective- which gives us the wrong meaning when we read.
And Increasingly is an adverb, gives us the correct meaning while reading the sentence.
B is awkward- "those not yet born" we would rather prefer simple "unborn" instead of that. So eliminate B.
Same with the D. "all of them" is awkward and redundant. since we have "the unborn"- Noun
The answer should be E.
