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hey please provide a detailed explaination
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION


When we read this sentence, we are confused by "they." Who or what does this refer to? We don't know, which makes (A) a bad answer choice. More important than unclear terms is whether our other answer choices correctly use the idiomatic comparison "appear more likely to...than to...."
Choice (B) mistakenly uses "more likely that it will prolong" rather than "more likely to" as it should, and "will prolong" doesn't match "resolve."
Choice (C) starts out well, but the sentence isn't concerned with "patterns of migration at the moment," which is the result of misplaced additional details.
Choice (D) puts "at the moment" in a place where it's clearer and "to prolong" matches "to resolve."
Choice (E) makes the same mistakes as (B), save that its mismatched verbs are "will prolong" and "to resolve" instead.

The correct answer is Choice (D).
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In the second clause of the prompt (that contains the underlined portion), the subject "abundance" is singular and hence commands a singular verb. (A) and (B) can therefore be eliminated on the grounds that they violate the singular subject-singular verb condition.

The correct expression involving a comparison using 'more likely to' is: "more like to........ than to..."

Among the remaining answer choices, only (D) satisfies this comparison structure. Hence, (D) is the correct answer.
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(A) and (B) are incorrect due to the singular form of “seem”. Correct idiom is “more likely to…..than to” and “at the moment” modifies “likely”. (D) only perfectly fits.

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