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OG - SC - #80

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Guest79
 Post subject: OG - SC - #80
 Post Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:22 pm 
New hardy varieties of rice show promise of producing high yields without costly requirements of irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer by earlier high-yielding varieties.

A) requirements of irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer by earlier high-yielding varieties.
B) requirements by earlier high-yielding varieties of application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation.
C) requirements for application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation of earlier high-yielding varieties.
D) application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation that was required by earlier high-yielding varieties.
E) irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer that were required by earlier high-yielding varieties.

OG answer - E. Could you please explain the grammatical glitch?

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StaceyKoprince
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 Post Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:01 am 
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"without costly X" - that X should be whatever is costly, in this case irrigation and application of fertilizer. Putting "requirements" next breaks the flow of this statement. Eliminate A, B, C.

D says "application... and irrigation that was" - this should be plural (compound subject)

E correctly puts irrigation and application after costly and also correctly uses "were" to refer to the compound subject.

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victory
 Post subject: thanks.. this post helped.. question
 Post Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:50 pm 
do i have to login in this forum? i cannot register or login?
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StaceyKoprince
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 Post Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 1:40 pm 
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Nope, you don't have to register. When you post, you just type in whatever ID you want - if you want to keep using the same one, then just keep typing it in every time you post.

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