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Pioneers of ecological awareness say they will be able to make household items that can reduce waste and excess materials, eliminate toxic chemicals, and serve  multiple purposes - items that will be used to store cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries, or other purposes such as these.

(A) multiple purposes – items that will be used to store cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries, or other purposes such as these.
(B) multiple purposes, which may be used for purposes such as storing cleaning supplies or recharging alkaline batteries.
(C) multiple purposes - items that will be used for such purposes as storing cleaning supplies or recharging alkaline batteries.
(D) a multipurpose, the use of which would be for purposes like the storage of cleaning supplies the recharging of alkaline batteries.
(E) multiple purposes, to be used to store cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries, or the like

intcan · Answer

Clear C. storing and recharging are parallel. In B, 'which' does not have clear referent.

goalgmatnew · Answer

C

only C correctly uses "such purposes as" to list examples, rest of the options are not very clear.

Warlock007 · Answer

see B carefully it also uses "Such purposes as" correctly..........

Warlock007 · Answer

Hey Feruz77 this is from winners prep material can anyone explain in a better way?

RivaM · Answer

C.

A - parallelism 
B , D, E, modify the wrong noun, multiple purposes

gmatter0913 · Answer

Pioneers of ecological awareness say they will be able to make household items that can reduce waste and excess materials, eliminate toxic chemicals, and serve  multiple purposes - items that will be used to store cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries, or other purposes such as these .

(A) multiple purposes – items that will be used to store cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries, or other purposes such as these.
(B) multiple purposes, which may be used for purposes such as storing cleaning supplies or recharging alkaline batteries.
(C) multiple purposes - items that will be used for such purposes as storing cleaning supplies or recharging alkaline batteries.
(D) a multipurpose, the use of which would be for purposes like the storage of cleaning supplies the recharging of alkaline batteries.
(E) multiple purposes, to be used to store cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries, or the like

- serve a multipurpose is wrong, so D is out. Uses like for giving examples. Wrong!
 - items that will be used to  store  cleaning supplies,  recharging  alkaline batteries (This is not parallel, ideally it should be "to store cleaning supplies, recharge alkaline batteries" or "for storing cleaning supplies, recharging alkaline batteries." So A, E are out.

Coming to B and C...
In B, they used 'which' to refer to the 'items', but it is incorrectly referring to 'multiple purposes'. In this sentence, it says 'multiple purposes may be used for purposes such as storing ...' which is wrong.
In C, the problem is cracked by clearly referring to 'items' and it is getting modified correctly.

One more rule is 'such as' should always be used if you're providing some examples. Answer option D uses 'like' to give examples, which is wrong.

The answer is C.

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