Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Because the Earths crust is more solid there and thus better able to

Because the Earth’s crust is more solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in theWest.

Option Elimination -

(A) of a given magnitude typically devastates an area 100 times greater in the eastern United States than it does in the West - "it" refers to the same (not different, unlike "one," which can refer to another thing of the same type). Wrong

(B) of a given magnitude will typically devastate 100 times the area if it occurs in the eastern United States instead of the West - We are comparing "if it (an earthquake of a given magnitude) with "the west." - Wrong.

(C) will typically devastate 100 times the area in the eastern United States than one of the comparable magnitude occurring in the West - We are comparing the devastation caused by an earthquake in the first part with "one of the comparable
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 17 May 2007, 04:38 • Replies 39 • Views 51282

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