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The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

A .enabling trees to grow.
B. for the trees to grow.
C .for growing trees.
D. that enable the trees to grow.
E .that the trees can grow.



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The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

A .enabling trees to grow.
B. for the trees to grow.
C .for growing trees.
D. that enable the trees to grow.
E .that the trees can grow.
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D sounds better.
B,C,E - distort the meaning of sentence.
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The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

A .enabling trees to grow.
B. for the trees to grow.
C .for growing trees.
D. that enable the trees to grow.
E .that the trees can grow.
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I had chosen the option A as I did not see any thing wrong in it. But there is a close call between
A and D.

I think A with modifier ( "enabling ...." modifying conditions ) and B using pronoun "that" to connect to the rest of the sentence are both correct in this particular grammatical point.

But there is a catch in the || ism.

There is a difference when we say "Trees are ....." and "The trees are ....".
Looking into the tone of Q:
The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat ....
I think we should have "THE TREES" ........ which makes D better than A.

Do please critique
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The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

A .enabling trees to grow.---Incorrect run-on sentence .needs a relative clause.
B. for the trees to grow.-----Incorrect 'for' indicates because and its location is not expected.
C .for growing trees.----Incorrect..Chnages the meaning of the sentence.
D. that enable the trees to grow.---Correct...Relative clause is used.
E .that the trees can grow.
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---inohorent sentence.


Will go for Option D.
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X creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

In option A, Its not clear whether " creating conditions" ---> enabling trees to grow
or "conditions" ---> enabling trees to grow.

logically "conditions" --> enabling trees to grow not "creating conditions".
by introducing relative pronoun "that" solved the above problem

X creates conditons that enable the trees to grow.
= conditions enable the trees to grow.

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The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

A .enabling trees to grow.
B. for the trees to grow.
C .for growing trees.
D. that enable the trees to grow.
E .that the trees can grow.


D sounds better.
B,C,E - distort the meaning of sentence.
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Suresh has good explanation. I agree with you that D is best!



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