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GMAT Question of the Day : Sentence Correction

The strand fills with water during the rainy season that the peat then holds and keeps it humid, all of which creates conditions enabling trees to grow.

A .enabling trees to grow.
B. for the trees to grow.
C .for growing trees.
D. that enable the trees to grow.
E .that the trees can grow.

Written by Take GMAT Team on June 20th, 2008 with 32 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Deepak
#1. February 7th, 2007, at 10:01 AM.

answer is D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kavya
#2. February 7th, 2007, at 10:15 PM.

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Valmik Desai
#3. February 7th, 2007, at 11:33 PM.

B. for the trees to grow.

“D” sounds too wordy to me.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Megha
#4. February 8th, 2007, at 12:16 AM.

B for me.

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#5. February 8th, 2007, at 6:32 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kavya
#6. February 8th, 2007, at 9:38 AM.

Admin,
Can you please tell me the correct answer?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Prasad
#7. February 8th, 2007, at 10:35 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Arun
#8. February 8th, 2007, at 12:21 PM.

The answer is B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com xyz
#9. February 8th, 2007, at 6:59 PM.

B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com ashok_s_j
#10. February 8th, 2007, at 8:19 PM.

I think it is ‘B’. But where is the answer key to all the questions listed here?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Jaimin
#11. February 9th, 2007, at 9:41 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com aoh
#12. February 10th, 2007, at 8:07 AM.

B
D doesn’t make sense, since “all” which is the subject should use “enables”

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Rajshree Misra
#13. February 12th, 2007, at 12:02 PM.

B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com kartik
#14. February 12th, 2007, at 4:58 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Yogi
#15. February 15th, 2007, at 11:23 AM.

D seems good to me… TakeGmat Team. please let us know the correct answer

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Take GMAT Team
#16. February 15th, 2007, at 11:29 AM.

Hey 800 Scorer,

It is final chance to discuss the question !!! Else we are going to disclose the correct answer.

TakeGMAT Team

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Gurpreet
#17. February 15th, 2007, at 3:32 PM.

B

can take GMAT tem provide the correct answer?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Abhijeet
#18. February 15th, 2007, at 7:31 PM.

B
bcoz its terse.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com DiD
#19. February 15th, 2007, at 9:16 PM.

B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Jes
#20. February 16th, 2007, at 6:38 AM.

B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Himanshu
#21. February 16th, 2007, at 1:28 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Gurpreet
#22. February 16th, 2007, at 2:01 PM.

still no response from takeGMAT team

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com manumidha
#23. February 17th, 2007, at 4:25 AM.

himanshu .. u seeem rite.. D is the ans. !!!

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Yogi
#24. February 21st, 2007, at 2:39 PM.

GMAT Team… what is the answer?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Take GMAT Team
#25. February 21st, 2007, at 4:50 PM.

D is the right choice !!!!!

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com abhinav
#26. February 25th, 2008, at 2:30 PM.

i would go for B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com topgun
#27. March 20th, 2008, at 11:27 AM.

answer is A…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com topgun
#28. March 24th, 2008, at 5:15 PM.

disclose the answer… admin people…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com amity
#29. June 21st, 2008, at 9:03 PM.

Takegmat Team,
Plz explain why D as compare to B

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Manisha Sachdeva
#30. June 21st, 2008, at 10:30 PM.

According to me, B is the correct answer…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Biginer
#31. August 5th, 2008, at 3:49 PM.

D is right
In my opinion, A has no “the”.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com basant23091988
#32. August 19th, 2008, at 12:30 PM.

i feel the answer is B. can any1 explain why B is incorrect and D is correct..
D is also grammatically correct. but considering the rule of verbosity, I will go with B…as B makes the sentence simple rather than D which makes it complex..

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