GMAT Question of the Day: Sentence Correction

Japan’s abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils, it has made possible the raising of a variety of crops.
A) it has made possible the raising of
B) has made possible fro them to raise
C) have made [...]

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Japan’s abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush vegetation cover and, despite the mountainous terrain and generally poor soils, it has made possible the raising of a variety of crops.

A) it has made possible the raising of
B) has made possible fro them to raise
C) have made it possible to raise
D) have made it possible for raising
E) thus making it possible for them to raise

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V Pat
#1. June 16th, 2006, at 8:50 PM.

E) thus making it possible for them to raise

JR
#2. June 16th, 2006, at 8:56 PM.

Ans: C

JR
#3. June 16th, 2006, at 10:05 PM.

Parallellism between ‘…mild temperature throughout most of the country have produced a lush….. ‘

and

have made it possible to raise

Hence C.

Maniranjan Kumar
#4. June 17th, 2006, at 8:00 AM.

Ans should be C.

1. Subject “Japanâ€™s abundant rainfall and the typically mild temperature” is plural and hence ‘have’ should be there as plural verb.
2. Verb forms for a particular subject in a sentence should be similar unless and until there is a very strong reason to use different verb forms and therefore, ‘made’ has to be used following ‘produced’.
3. ‘raising of’ has a different meaning than ‘to raise’ and is not a correct idiom here. Also an infinitive form of verb ‘to raise’ is required in this sentence.

Take GMAT
#5. June 18th, 2006, at 8:57 AM.

First of all BIGGGGGGGGG thanks to Maniranjan Kumar for detailed explanation.

and of course c is the correct answer.

richa
#6. June 19th, 2006, at 11:28 AM.

ans is c.pls explain me the correct ans.

Take GMAT
#7. June 19th, 2006, at 1:27 PM.

Dear Richa,
Thanks for posting your querry. Correct answer already anounced by TakeGMAT team above and explanation by Maniranjan Kumar and JR.

Let us know if we can clarify more.

TakeGMAT Team

Amishe800
#8. July 25th, 2007, at 1:00 AM.

yepp ..it C ..

Raghu
#9. June 16th, 2009, at 3:33 PM.

-in A , there is no proper reference for “it”. Hence wrong.
- “them” is a dangling modifier, though it generally refers tothe Japanese, it must be explicitly stated. Hence B, E eliminated.
- in D, use of “raising” is not needed as its looks wordy, awkward.

So, C is the answer

Dharm
#10. June 17th, 2009, at 6:18 AM.

Option C

liza
#11. June 17th, 2009, at 10:09 AM.

Pratik
#12. June 17th, 2009, at 10:37 AM.

E For SUre

robin
#13. June 17th, 2009, at 2:33 PM.

E shd b answer

robin
#14. August 16th, 2009, at 10:48 PM.

Binita
#15. August 17th, 2009, at 1:28 AM.

sanjay
#16. August 17th, 2009, at 4:21 AM.

It is C. Subject-Verb agreement, as the subject is ___ and ____ thus making it plural and then requiring have(and not has).This narrows down the choice to only C and D.D is wordy and awkward thus C is the correct answer.

Ramya
#17. August 17th, 2009, at 12:09 PM.