|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Abhi077
SC Moderator
Joined: 25 Sep 2018
Last visit: 18 Apr 2025
Posts: 1,084
Given Kudos: 1,665
Location: United States (CA)
Concentration: Finance, Strategy
Schools: Rotman '21 Jindal '21 Stern '21
GPA: 3.97
WE:Investment Banking (Finance: Investment Banking)
Products:
06 Jan 2020, 02:43
Kudos
Bookmarks
A
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
35%
(medium)
Question Stats:
62% (01:31) correct
38%
(02:00)
wrong
based on 171
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining air quality by ridding the atmosphere of excess carbon, and ensuring consistent global temperatures through the storage of greenhouse gases.
A)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining
B)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface and performing a vital function in sustaining the condition for human life in cities, forests maintain
C)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface and perform a vital function in sustaining conditions for human life in cities, and by maintaining
D)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and maintain
E)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, performing a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and they maintain
A)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining
B)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface and performing a vital function in sustaining the condition for human life in cities, forests maintain
C)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface and perform a vital function in sustaining conditions for human life in cities, and by maintaining
D)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and maintain
E)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, performing a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and they maintain
Abhi077
SC Moderator
Joined: 25 Sep 2018
Last visit: 18 Apr 2025
Posts: 1,084
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 1,665
Location: United States (CA)
Concentration: Finance, Strategy
Schools: Rotman '21 Jindal '21 Stern '21
GPA: 3.97
WE:Investment Banking (Finance: Investment Banking)
Products:
09 Jan 2020, 01:30
Kudos
Bookmarks
Hema15
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The first thing we notice about this sentence should be the many verbs: "encompassing," "perform," "sustaining," "maintaining," and "ensuring." We will need to pay close attention to which verbs need to be in the same form.
Starting with (A), the main action is that "forests perform a vital function." "Sustaining," "maintaining," and "ensuring" are ways that the forests perform that function. It's a long sentence, but everything works as it is; let's see if any of our other options can do it better.
(B) uses "maintain," which doesn't match "ensuring,"
(C) only attaches "encompass" and "perform" as actions of the forests, leaving "maintaining" and "ensuring" without actors. Similarly,
(D) has "encompass," "perform," and "maintain" in the same form, but now "ensuring" has no actor.
(E) looks grammatical at first glance, but "they maintain" doesn't match "ensuring" in form.
Starting with (A), the main action is that "forests perform a vital function." "Sustaining," "maintaining," and "ensuring" are ways that the forests perform that function. It's a long sentence, but everything works as it is; let's see if any of our other options can do it better.
(B) uses "maintain," which doesn't match "ensuring,"
(C) only attaches "encompass" and "perform" as actions of the forests, leaving "maintaining" and "ensuring" without actors. Similarly,
(D) has "encompass," "perform," and "maintain" in the same form, but now "ensuring" has no actor.
(E) looks grammatical at first glance, but "they maintain" doesn't match "ensuring" in form.
The correct answer is Choice (A).
09 Jan 2020, 01:40
Kudos
Bookmarks
Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining air quality by ridding the atmosphere of excess carbon, and ensuring consistent global temperatures through the storage of greenhouse gases.
A)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining Starting -ing modifier correctly modifies the immediately following noun "forests". Present continuous forms of "maintain" and "sustain" are parallel with that of "ensure". No other obvious errors observed. Correct answer.
B)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface and performing a vital function in sustaining the condition for human life in cities, forests maintain There is a meaning shift in this option. The "vital function" performed by the forests is only "in sustaining the condition for human life in cities", whereas as per the question forests perform a vital function in three activities - "sustaining...", "maintaining..." and "ensuring....".
C)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface and perform a vital function in sustaining conditions for human life in cities, and by maintaining The problem is with the usage of the word "by". In this context, "by" indicates something being used as an instrument / agency for doing another thing, which is not the meaning intended in the question. Additionally, the usage of "by" results in a sentence fragment.
D)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and maintain There is a meaning shift in this answer option. As per the question forests perform a vital function in three activities whereas this option states the vital function to be only in "sustaining...". Also, this implies that forests "maintain..." by doing both of the following actions:
i) "ridding..." and
ii) "ensuring..."
while the question implies that forests "maintain..." by "ridding..." and "ensuring..." is a separate function.
E)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, performing a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and they maintain Same as (D)
Hope this helps.
A)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface, forests perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, maintaining Starting -ing modifier correctly modifies the immediately following noun "forests". Present continuous forms of "maintain" and "sustain" are parallel with that of "ensure". No other obvious errors observed. Correct answer.
B)Encompassing nearly a third of the planet's land surface and performing a vital function in sustaining the condition for human life in cities, forests maintain There is a meaning shift in this option. The "vital function" performed by the forests is only "in sustaining the condition for human life in cities", whereas as per the question forests perform a vital function in three activities - "sustaining...", "maintaining..." and "ensuring....".
C)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface and perform a vital function in sustaining conditions for human life in cities, and by maintaining The problem is with the usage of the word "by". In this context, "by" indicates something being used as an instrument / agency for doing another thing, which is not the meaning intended in the question. Additionally, the usage of "by" results in a sentence fragment.
D)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, perform a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and maintain There is a meaning shift in this answer option. As per the question forests perform a vital function in three activities whereas this option states the vital function to be only in "sustaining...". Also, this implies that forests "maintain..." by doing both of the following actions:
i) "ridding..." and
ii) "ensuring..."
while the question implies that forests "maintain..." by "ridding..." and "ensuring..." is a separate function.
E)Forests encompass nearly a third of the planet's land surface, performing a vital function in sustaining the conditions for human life in cities, and they maintain Same as (D)
Hope this helps.
