fozzzy wrote:
Can someone provide a detailed analysis on this question. Please explain each answer choice. Thanks!
Meteor showers and individual streaks of light that flash across the sky every night are generated when tiny flecks of celestial detritus, often no larger than grains of sand or of pebbles, burn up speeding through the atmosphere.
A. grains of sand or of pebbles, burn up speeding - Use of OF is incorrect. More over modifier SPEEDING creates confusion. Incorrect.
B. grains of sand or pebbles, burn up while speeding - Correct
C. grains of sand or pebbles, which burn up while speeding
- Placement of WHICH changes the meaning of the sentence because in this case WHICH refers to "a grain of sand or pebble" and means that sand or pebble burns rather than FLECKS burning. Thus Incorrect
D. a grain of sand or pebble, which burns up as it speeds
- Placement of WHICH changes the meaning of the sentence because in this case WHICH refers to "a grain of sand or pebble" and means that sand or pebble burns rather than FLECKS burning. Thus Incorrect
E. a grain of sand or a pebble, burns up when it speeds
- Its the tiny flecks that burns because FLECKS is plural, use of Singular pronoun & verb is incorrect. Thus Incorrect