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While many wilderness first aid programs teach their students how to create traction splints, without a way to measure the amount of tension exerted on the body, the splints may exacerbate  pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing  the risk of long-term damage.

A. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing

B. pain, leading to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing

C. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decrease

D. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease

E. pain, leading to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease

kunalcvrce · Answer

A. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing :Incorrect -Paralleism error because of ing B. pain, leading to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing :Meaning error due to leading.This sentence means pain is leading to deep tissue. C. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decrease :-Incorrect

araleism error D. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease :-Correct E. pain, leading to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease:-I ncorrect -Discussed in B

jedit · Answer

If you take the  without a way to measure the amount of tension exerted on the body  bit out, you can easily figure out the answer which comes out to be D. D maintains the logical flow of the grammatical structure of this sentence.

PP777 · Answer

Correct Answer- D

Maintains the Parallelism
X rather than Y

X- Pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury
Y- relieve pain and decrease

D. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease

BinhFantasia · Answer

This question has parallelism issue. 
"relieve pain" should parallel with "exacerbate pain" -> A, B, C out
"leading" in E doesnt parallel with "relieve" -> E out

D is correct

aditya201819 · Answer

I will go with D

here is why:-

A. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than  relieving pain and decreasing -- Not parallel

B. pain,  leading to  deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing- pain does not lead to deep tissue and neurological injury - change in meaning

C. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than  relieving pain and decrease  -- not parallel

D. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease--  Correct

E. pain,  leading to  deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease -- Same as B

redskull1 · Answer

Bucking the trend and going with A.The answer will be interesting.

Sdpl0118 · Answer

Please correct me if I am wrong... or if I am simply over thinking...

I am initially tempted to select answer D as everything is parallel and in the present tense, but it feels wrong after reading it again.

B&E are out because the phrase "leading to" does not agree with "exacerbate".

For answer C, "relieving pain" followed by "decrease" is not parallel, and therefore I excluded C as well.

That leaves A and D on the board.

I chose A over D because I believe pain relieving should be something continuous and decreasing should agree with relieving.

If x and y both represent a form of tense, I went with "x and x...rather than...y and y" instead of "x and x...rather than...x and x".

Cheers.

sumitkrocks · Answer

A. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing

X rather than y and z ....but keeping Y and z in present tense does not make a logical sense

Correct

B. pain,  leading  to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing

Leading is modifying the preceding clause which is not intended in the original sentence ..as action of pain cannot result in deep tissue and neurological injury. 
 
C. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain  and decrease

Parallelism error Rather than x and y ( X and y are the list ..must be parallel )

D. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather  than relieve pain and decrease

This sentence looks fine but on careful observation I find relieve pain and decrease the risk are not the traits or universal truth about splints and hence we can not express it in present tense , logically it is not correct , though grammatically it looks fine 
In the no underlined portion” The splints may exacerbate…” also supports my logic ..may indicates ..it is just one possibility

I feel to relieve pain and to decrease ..could have made better logical sense .

E. pain,  leading  to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than  relieve pain and decrease

Same errors as explained in B and D

Please correct me if my thought process has flaws

aditya201819 · Answer

While many  wilderness  first aid programs teach their students how to create traction splints,  without a way to measure the amount of tension exerted on the body , the splints  may exacerbate pain  and  lead to deep tissue and neurological injury   rather than   relieving pain and decreasing  the risk of long-term damage.

Here parallelism is broken
The splints may X and Y rather than A and B

Here the form of X & Y, and A & B should be same but while one set is in simple present other is in present continuous.

mc896 · Answer

While many wilderness first aid programs teach their students how to create traction splints, without a way to measure the amount of tension exerted on the body, the  splints may  exacerbate   pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing the risk of long-term damage .

A. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than   relieving   pain and   decreasing

B.   pain, leading   to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing

C. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than   relieving   pain and decrease

D. pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease

E.   pain, leading   to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieve pain and decrease

To simplify the sentence, the test taker should eliminate all of the excess descriptors, leaving us with "Splints may exacerbate pain and lead to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing the risk of long-term damage."

By evaluating the answers, the test taker can see we are dealing with two decision points:
1. " Pain and " or " pain, leading "
2.  Verb tense  on the words  relieve  and  decrease .

Decision Point 1: "Pain, leading" changes the meaning of the sentence by assigning causality to the pain instead the splint. B and E are incorrect

Decision Point 2: Verb tense. Here, the words "rather than" indicate a comparison. The fixed part of the sentence uses the verbs "exacerbate," so we know we must match this tense moving forward. Exacerbate is combined with the verb "lead," so the other side of our comparison must match this tense and construction. Option A and C both use the continuous tense for relieving so they are incorrect.

Answer choice D is correct because it retains the original meaning of the sentence, and provides parallel construction in the verb groupings ( exacerbate & lead  rather than  relieve & decrease ) .

ashwani4588 · Answer

I just wanted to understand how the use of Comma+Verb ing modifier in the option B is incorrect.

B) pain, leading to deep tissue and neurological injury rather than relieving pain and decreasing

This choice means, the splint makes the pain worse resulting into deep tissue and some sort of injury. on the contrary, what it is supposed to do i.e to relieve the pain and to decrease the long term damage.

As it seems, the verb+ing modifier is modifying the action of the clause, exacerbate the pain.

Why is it wrong? I mean i am not against D, but what's wrong with B? Please help

push12345 · Answer

I can try to resolve issue

B talks about 
Pain leading to injury
But can pain lead to injury? Or injury lead to pain

This difference makes choice B inappropriate.

Also D indicates that splint can lead to injury which makes sense and better than choice B

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