Russia’s uranium disarmament deal with the US made Russia turn the ura

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Russia’s uranium disarmament deal with the  US made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ending  in early 2014 with the last shipment arriving at the port of Baltimore.

A)US made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ending

B)US made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel, selling this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ended

C)US, making Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel, sold this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ending

D)US, which made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel, selling this fuel to the US commercial nuclear plants and ending

E)US, which made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ended

ARORA101 · Answer

Can somebody please explain why A is wrong?

jrk23 · Answer

Check the "ending" used as a present participle here. It is neither the result nor the extra information about previous clause.

Also, the subject of "ending" present participle is the "Us ....deal with Russia" that is also wrong.

Hope that this will help you.

mukherjeeabhish · Answer

Agreed A is wrong for using the present participle modifier. However in E isn't which modifying US .which is wrong ? The deal made Russia turn the uranium.................. and not US made Russian turn the uranium

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  ARORA101 . You can also test the participle by dropping it into the sentence in different areas closer to what it would most logically modify:

1) The beginning of the sentence— Ending in early 2014 with the last shipment arriving at the port of Baltimore, Russia's uranium disarmament deal with the US made Russia turn the uranium...

Analysis:  The last shipment  is unclear—the last shipment of what?—until we qualify it later in the sentence. This is not optimal writing.

2) The middle of the sentence— Russia's uranium disarmament deal with the US, ending in early 2014 with the last shipment arriving at the port of Baltimore, made Russia turn the uranium...

Analysis: The sentence suffers from the same meaning issue as before.

In the original sentence, with the participle at the end, the construct seems to be implying a reason for why the treaty ended, as in,    ending , but the information that follows does not deliver to that end. In fact, I was looking for  and ended  to parallel the earlier  made , but since we see another pair of actions,  turn  and  sell , within the object of the main clause, it can get a little confusing:  A... X and Y, and B . The sentence would run the risk of conveying to the reader that B was an extension of X and Y.

Notice how the non-essential  which  clause bypasses such confusion in (E). The  main clause  is easy to follow:

Russia’s uranium disarmament deal with the US , which made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US,  ended in early 2014 with the last shipment arriving at the port of Baltimore.

Finally, to address the concern that  mukherjeeabhish  brought up, a dependent clause need not "touch" the noun it modifies to convey the vital meaning of the sentence. For example, the following sentence, one that I came up with to illustrate this very point in a lesson earlier today, should leave you with no doubt as to what it means to express:

The branch of the Bank of America, which was robbed last week, decided to shut its doors, pending further investigation.

Was America robbed? No. Does the sentence mean to convey that the Bank of America was robbed? Again, no, not exactly. The sentence tells us that one particular branch of a certain bank was robbed: the relative clause reaches back to  the branch . While we are on the topic, the phrase at the end does, in fact, comment on the situation that is outlined earlier in the sentence, so the -ing construct is justified, unlike what we see above with (A).

I hope that helps clarify any lingering concerns. Good luck with your studies, everyone.

- Andrew

lathikashyam · Answer

33. Russia’s uranium disarmament deal with the  US made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ending  in early 2014 with the last shipment arriving at the port of Baltimore.

A)US made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ending – subject for ‘ending’ is not clear

B)US made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel, selling this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ended - sentence sounds like the deal is ‘selling this fuel to the commercial…’

C)US, making Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel, sold this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ending – sentence sounds like the deal ‘sold this fuel to the commercial…’

D)US, which made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel, selling this fuel to the US commercial nuclear plants and ending – sentence seems to be a fragment

E) US, which made Russia turn the uranium from its decommissioned warheads into nuclear fuel and sell this fuel to the commercial nuclear plants of the US, ended  - the subject for ‘ended’ is clear

sharmisthamona2 · Answer

So, the choices with ending are wrong because verbing modifier ,ending is not the result of the previous clause nor can logically connect to the subject of it?
Ended in correct E is giving the extra information correctly?

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EducationAisle · Answer

Hi  homersimpsons , would be curious to know what's the source of this question?

E has been given as the right answer here. However, there are almost  zero  chances that option E would be the right option on actual GMAT, since  which  in option E is modifying  US .

For this reason, it's best to focus on official questions only.

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