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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but invisible until the climbers nearly stumbled into it.

(A) Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but invisible until the climbers nearly stumbled into it.

(B) The climbers, blinded by the sunb's reflection, nearly stumbled into the crevasse, which they had found until then all but invisible.

(C) The crevasse was all but invisible to the climbers blinded by the sun's reflection until they nearly stumbled into it.

(D) Nearly stumbling into the crevasse, the climbers, blinded by the sun's reflection, found it all but invisible.

(E) All but invisible, the climbers nearly stumbled into the crevasse, blinded by the sun's reflection.



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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 05 Nov 2003, 07:05
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Agree with B

A has a problem with modifier
D and E change meaning
C is awkward
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 05 Nov 2003, 07:11
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C? Because it modifies the right nouns with the right verbs and stentence structure is consise as well.
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 05 Nov 2003, 14:17
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Would anybody tell me why A is wrong?
I'm confusing...............
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 05 Nov 2003, 23:40
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chihao,

crevasse could not be blinded (as A suggest)
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 08 Nov 2003, 04:34
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why is D wrong...
A) - misplaced modfiers..
E) - misplaced modfiers
B) - sentence ending is awkward

But why is D wrong.
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 08 Nov 2003, 05:19
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ambiguous pronoun 'it', which seems to be reflecting to reflection rather than the crevasse
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by that logic even C is wrong. In C also it can be ambigous.

C) The crevasse was all but invisible to the climbers blinded by the sun's reflection until they nearly stumbled into it.

(D) Nearly stumbling into the crevasse, the climbers, blinded by the sun's reflection, found it all but invisible.

Can anyone please tell why C is better than D.
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 09 Nov 2003, 19:18
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Vicky
by that logic even C is wrong. In C also it can be ambigous.

C) The crevasse was all but invisible to the climbers blinded by the sun's reflection until they nearly stumbled into it.

(D) Nearly stumbling into the crevasse, the climbers, blinded by the sun's reflection, found it all but invisible.

Can anyone please tell why C is better than D.
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IMO, in D, the meaning of the sentence changes a little bit. It cjhanges the sequence of two things in the sentence. As per the original sentence, the act of nearly stumbling into crevasse occurs before the climebers finally started seeing the crevasse. D gives an impression that even after nearly stumbling into the crevasse, it was invisible to the climbers. But that is not the case. As explained above, the climbers started seeing the crevasse after nearly stumbling into it.
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 04 Jul 2010, 23:42
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Nice question .. i fell for A .. but after reading the explanations will go with C
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 05 Jul 2010, 01:55
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I still maintain its B ..even though this option has an ugly end ..
I option C it can refer to the reflections as well ..

not sure whether the answer posted above is correct
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Blinded by the sun's reflection, the crevasse was all but 05 Jul 2010, 06:54
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A it is.

B has an odd sentence structure.



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