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Nice question because of it's use of 'that'...good luck:
The alarming findings of a new study indicate that a deadly disease, named "white-nose syndrome" for a fungus that appears on the body parts of hibernating bats, is spreading among Northeast bat populations so rapidly, largely because of bats' social behavior and migratory nature, that should the present rate of infection continue, the populations of the region's most common bat species will become extinct within the next 20 years.
(A) that should the present rate of infection continue, the populations of the region's most common bat species
(B) should the present rate of infection continue, the populations of the region's most common bat species
(C) should the present rate of infection be continued, then the populations of the region's most common bat species
(D) the populations of the region's most common bat species, were the present rate of infection continued,
(E) that the populations of the region's most common bat species, if the the present rate of infection did continue,
Nice question because of it's use of 'that'...good luck:
The alarming findings of a new study indicate that a deadly disease, named "white-nose syndrome" for a fungus that appears on the body parts of hibernating bats, is spreading among Northeast bat populations so rapidly, largely because of bats' social behavior and migratory nature, that should the present rate of infection continue, the populations of the region's most common bat species will become extinct within the next 20 years.
(A) that should the present rate of infection continue, the populations of the region's most common bat species
(B) should the present rate of infection continue, the populations of the region's most common bat species
(C) should the present rate of infection be continued, then the populations of the region's most common bat species
(D) the populations of the region's most common bat species, were the present rate of infection continued,
(E) that the populations of the region's most common bat species, if the the present rate of infection did continue,
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27 Nov 2010, 01:05
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The key to handling complex sentences is to ignore the irrelevant bits - most commonly, the parenthetical (i.e. between commas) comments and long descriptive phrases beginning with prepositions.
Let's restate the original sentence, minus the colour commentary:
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Perfect construction - choose (A)!
Even if all you recognize is that you need to begin with "that", you eliminate B, C and D. E has the awkward "if the present rate did continue", so we eliminate it and choose A.
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The thing to note here: The second that in the sentence is part of the idiom so xxxxxx that and hence is indispensable. It will be easy to eliminate b, c and d on that count. In e, the conditional clause is using an untenable “if the present rate of infection did continue (a past), will become (a simple future) extinct within the next 20 years.”
A is the answer. Plus we must eliminate the parentheticals that obscure the gist as skovinsky has rightly pointed out.
A is the answer. Plus we must eliminate the parentheticals that obscure the gist as skovinsky has rightly pointed out.
