Sentence Correction (SC) | Responding to the publics fascination withand sometimes undue alarm

Responding to the public’s fascination with―and sometimes undue alarm over―possible threats from asteroids, a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may collide with Earth.

Option Elimination -

(A) a scale developed by astronomers rates the likelihood that a particular asteroid or comet may - we need a noun for the ING modifier that can logically refer to who responded.

(B) a scale that astronomers have developed rates how likely it is for a particular asteroid or comet to - same as A.

(C) astronomers have developed a scale to rate how likely a particular asteroid or comet will be to - deception here is "to rate," which is correct, and so is "for rating." "how" is introduced as a relative clause, a noun modifier. Ok, let's get our hands dirty here.
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 13 Jun 2010, 04:36 • Replies 64 • Views 132720

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