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Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Sound can travel through water for enormous distances, prevented from

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jabhatta2 wrote:
GMATGuruNY wrote:

B: Sound can travel through water for enormous distances, prevented from having its acoustic energydissipated by boundaries in the ocean created by water layers of different temperatures anddensities.

Here,prevented grammatically modifiesdistances but semantically is intended to refer tosound .
As a result of this intention, the portion in red seems to imply that a non-sentient noun --sound -- has AGENCY and can DECIDE to have its energy dissipated.
This meaning is illogical.
I would not
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