Though viewed from a distance, Saturn's main rings may appear to be smooth and continuous, they are in fact composed of thousands of separate icy ringlets when viewed up close.


Though viewed from a distance, Saturn's main rings may appear to be smooth and continuous, they are in fact composed of thousands of separate icy ringlets when viewed up close.

Though Saturn's main rings may appear smooth and continuous when viewed from a distance, they are in fact composed of thousands of separate icy ringlets when viewed up close.

Saturn's main rings, when viewed from a distance, may appear to be smooth and continuous, though when viewed up close they are in fact composed of thousands of separate icy ringlets.

When viewed from a distance, Saturn's main rings may appear smooth and continuous, but closer viewing reveals them to be composed of thousands of separate icy ringlets.

Though composed of thousands of separate icy ringlets if viewed up close, the main rings of Saturn may appear smooth and continuous when they are viewed from a distance.


Though Logically D makes sense, but it voids the parallelism. What I learnt from your guides is that first look for GRAMMER, then for Meaning clarity issue.

Choice D seems to be gramatically very bad and violated the rule of Parallelism, So how can this option be correct?

How do we crack such questions?

The best way to crack these problems is to do your homework and see if the topic has already been discussed elsewhere:

though-viewed-from-a-distance-saturn-s-main-rings-t461.html

Now admittedly i only answered the parallelism question today, but the topic had already been started and you could have gotten a lot of insight on this one if you had read Dan's explanation before posting here..

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