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Critical Reasoning (CR) | Years ago gardeners who grew water plants sometimes dumped their

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paradise1234 wrote:

­Option C says, that the plants that are blown away with the wind are without roots. How come plants without roots are able to grow? I acknowledge that there are such plants that can grow from other parts of the plant like stem. but when this option specifically mentioned "without roots", seemed as if they had put that part in the option because its the wrong choice. I could not ignore this piece of information. What made you ignore the "without roots" part of optionC?

­Here's(C):

C) Strong winds can pick up water hyacinths, which have no roots, and carry them many miles from where they had beengrowing.­

A modifier, such as "which have no roots," that begins with "which" and is between commas indicates that ALL examples of the preceding noun it modifies have the characteristic it presents.

So, "water hyacinths, which have no roots," communicates that ALL water hyacinths have no roots.

Thus, apparently, all water hyacinths
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Statistics : Posted by MartyMurray • on 08 Mar 2024, 08:19 • Replies 3 • Views 782



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