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vivek.kapoor83 · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: sc

According to its proponents, a proposed new style of aircraft could, by skimming along the top of the atmosphere, fly between most points on Earth in under two hours.

A. According to its proponents, a proposed new style of aircraft could, by skimming along the top of the atmosphere, fly between most points on Earth in under two hours.
B. By skimming along the top of the atmosphere, proponents of a proposed new style of aircraft say it could fly between most points on Earth in under two hours.
C. A proposed new style of aircraft could fly between most points on Earth in under two hours, according to its proponents, with it skimming along the top of the atmosphere.
D. A proposed new style of aircraft, say its proponents, could fly between most points on Earth in under two hours because of its skimming along the top of the atmosphere.
E. According to its proponents, skimming along the top of the atmosphere makes it possible that a proposed new style of aircraft could fly between most points on Earth in under two hours.

chase4meg · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:33 am Post subject:

IMO C

A - I felt "By skimming along" is not the correct usage
B - Misplaced modifier - "By skimming along the top of the atmosphere, proponents"
D and E - awkward and wordy

chase4meg · Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:37 am Post subject:

IMO C

A - I felt "By skimming along" is not the correct usage
B - Misplaced modifier - "By skimming along the top of the atmosphere, proponents"
D and E - awkward and wordy

kiran.raze · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:12 am Post subject:

IMO A , whats the OA ?

stop@800 · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

I also think ans is A

Stacey Koprince · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

A.

Again, one of those ones that sounds weird but it's really just an old-fashioned construction. Nothing wrong with it.

B. "By skimming along, proponents..." In this one, the proponents are apparently skimming along the top of the atmosphere!

C. "with it skimming along" sounds like a separate piece of info - it can both fly between most points in under two hours and skim along the top of the atmosphere. This changes the meaning - we want to say that it can fly between most points in under two hours because it skims along the top of the atmosphere.

D. "because of its" - what's skimming along? The aircraft? The Earth? Maybe this happens because the Earth has this special characteristic: it skims along the top of the atmosphere (of space or something - I don't know. I mean I personally know space doesn't have an atmosphere, but I'm not supposed to be using outside knowledge here!).

E. This sounds like the proponents are proponents of skimming, not proponents of the aircraft. There could be a Skimming Enthusiasts of the World club, for all I know, but the original sentence indicates that the proponents are proponents of the new style of aircraft, not of the process of skimming.

E.

bleacherseat · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

NSNguyen · Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:47 am Post subject:

IMO:D

Stacey Koprince · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

I suppose we could nitpick this one and say "style" can't fly - but the word style by itself means nothing. You actually need the modifier here to know what you're talking about: "style of aircraft." And a style of aircraft can certainly fly. Alternatively, if you just know that "style" refers specifically and only to a style of aircraft... then, again, a style of aircraft can fly. (As opposed to those early styles that didn't actually fly and the Wright Brothers crashed to the ground... Smile

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gmattakers · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject:

Another OG question. I will pick D.