Pest Control

[wsypinero]

B was correct but I chose C because I thought...

1) modifier "in the 1880s" described methods
2) modifiers must touch noun/pronoun they describe. as such, c seemed more correct than b.

However, it turns out that the modifier "in the 1880s" actually modifies "citrus industry." I don't get this. If modifier "in the 1880s" described citrus industry, shouldn't they be next to each other?


Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper crops, sugar beet and walnut in the region, but in the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.

A. Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper crops, sugar beet and walnut in the region, but in the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.
B. Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region, but in the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.
C. Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region, but more effective pest-control methods that were introduced in the 1880s saved the citrus industry.
D. In the 1880s, pests destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region and more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.
E. In the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry from what was destroying grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region.

Answer:

This sentence has poor parallelism, due to the placement of the word "crops." It seems to indicate that there were three types of crops (grape, celery and chili pepper) that had been destroyed, but that sugar beet and walnut had been destroyed entirely, rather than just the crops of those plants.

(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.

(B) CORRECT. The word "crop" is placed correctly after the list of crop types.
The modifier "in the 1880s" correctly modifies the last phrase in the sentence, indicating only that the citrus industry was saved in the 1880s. By using the past perfect "had destroyed," this sentence indicates that the other crops had been destroyed at some time prior to the 1880s. The later past event uses the simple past tense, whereas the earlier past event uses the past perfect tense. This time line of events matches the meaning in the original sentence.

(C) The modifying phrase "that were introduced in the 1880s" refers to the "methods" immediately preceding the phrase. This alters the meaning of the sentence, since "in the 1880s" no longer modifies "saved the citrus industry. The simple past tense indicates "saved" happened sometime in the past, but not necessarily in that particular decade. The modifier uses the relative pronoun "that," but "that" should only introduce essential modifiers. "Which" is a better choice here, since the modifying phrase is non-essential.

[RonPurewal]

However, it turns out that the modifier "in the 1880s" actually modifies "citrus industry." I don't get this. If modifier "in the 1880s" described citrus industry, shouldn't they be next to each other?

you're thinking incorrectly about this.

in this case, "in the 1880s" is an ADVERBIAL modifier (since it describes the time at which an action occurred).
as such, it modifies the ENTIRE ACTION of the ENTIRE CLAUSE.

as you've learned in class (or will learn, if you've not seen class #6 yet), you have more freedom as to the placement of these modifiers than you have with modifiers that modify nouns.

[gorav.s]

D, E are out - no clear meaning.
B is better and retain original meaning - of saving citrus industry in 1880.
B is correct

[RonPurewal]

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[jamesclarke160]

B was correct but I chose C because I thought...

1) modifier "in the 1880s" described methods
2) modifiers must touch noun/pronoun they describe. as such, c seemed more correct than b.

However, it turns out that the modifier "in the 1880s" actually modifies "citrus industry." I don't get this. If modifier "in the 1880s" described citrus pest control brisbane industry, shouldn't they be next to each other?


Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper crops, sugar beet and walnut in the region, but in the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.

A. Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper crops, sugar beet and walnut in the region, but in the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.
B. Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region, but in the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.
C. Pests had destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region, but pest control gold coast more effective pest-control methods that were introduced in the 1880s saved the citrus industry.
D. In the 1880s, pests destroyed grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region and more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry.
E. In the 1880s, more effective pest-control methods saved the citrus industry from what was destroying grape, celery, chili pepper, sugar beet and walnut crops in the region.

Answer:

This sentence has poor parallelism, due to the placement of the word "crops." It seems to indicate that there were three types of crops (grape, celery and chili pepper) that had been destroyed, but that sugar beet and walnut had been destroyed entirely, rather than just the crops of those plants.

(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.

(B) CORRECT. The word "crop" is placed correctly after the list of crop types.
The modifier "in the 1880s" correctly modifies the last phrase in the sentence, indicating only that the citrus industry was saved in the 1880s. By using the past perfect "had destroyed," this sentence indicates that the other crops had been destroyed at some time prior to the 1880s. The later past event uses the simple past tense, whereas the earlier past event uses the past perfect tense. This time line of events matches the meaning in the original sentence.

(C) The modifying phrase "that were introduced in the 1880s" refers to the "methods" immediately preceding the phrase. This alters the meaning of the sentence, since "in the 1880s" no longer modifies "saved the citrus industry. The simple past tense indicates "saved" happened sometime in the past, but not necessarily in that particular decade. The modifier uses the relative pronoun "that," but "that" should only introduce essential modifiers. "Which" is a better choice here, since the modifying phrase is non-essential.

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[tim]

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