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A it should be. A correctly uses the modifier.Oil consumption is currently 26 billion and is increasing...

"Currently 26 billion barrels a year" should modify the oil consumption.
In B and C it is modifying "the world"

D and E are also awkword and change the meaning of the sentence.
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Currently 26 billion barrels a year, world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of 2 percent annually.
A. world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of
B. the world is consuming oil at an increasing rate of
C. the world’s oil is being consumed at the increasing rate of
D. the rise in the rate of the world’s oil consumption is
E. oil is consumed by the world at an increasing rate of


Would definitely pick A because the 26billion barrels refers to the world consumption not 'the world' 'the world's oil' 'the rise' or 'oil'
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oil consumption is increasing or rising? should be increasing..... so go with E, however it is in passive....

it is a difficult one but good too.
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OA is A
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OA is A


vithal, is not increasing, notrising, is approperiate here? any explanation.........
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OA is A

vithal, is not increasing, notrising, is approperiate here? any explanation.........


the point tested here is - what is 26 billion barrels a year? 26 b barrels a year has to refer to world consumption of oil.

increasing/rising - both are appropriate here.
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OA is A
vithal, is not increasing, notrising, is approperiate here? any explanation.........
the point tested here is - what is 26 billion barrels a year? 26 b barrels a year has to refer to world consumption of oil.
increasing/rising - both are appropriate here.


sometime it is disastrous to think too much.................
I knew A was in active....... world consumption properly modified 26 billion barrales...

anyway, thanks.............



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