SC's Question number - 721 , 722

721). The current administration, being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing to increase as a result of deep cuts in the value of the dollar, has formed a group to study ways to sharpen our competitiveness.

(A) being worried over some foreign trade barriers being removed and our exports failing

(B) worrying over some foreign trade barriers being removed, also over the failure of our exports

(C) worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and the failure of our exports

(D) in that they were worried about the removal of some foreign trade barriers and also about the failure of our exports

(E) because of its worry concerning the removal of some foreign trade barriers, also concerning the failure of our exports

722). The data collected by weather airplanes that fly into the heart of a hurricane are useful mainly for gauging the storm’s structure and strength, not for the speed and the path of their movement.

(A) not for the speed and the path of their movement

(B) not for the speed and path of its movement

(C) not the speed and path of its movement

(D) and not the speed and path of their movements

(E) and not for the speed and the path of its movements


Answers:

721). OA - C - idiomatic and parallel - worried about X and Y

A - incorrect - passive and unidiomatic

B - incorrect - unidiomatic

D - incorrect - pronoun error - The current administration(singular).....in that they(plural)

E - incorrect - wordy

722). OA - C - parallel and idiomatic - gauging the (X and Y) not the (P and Q)

A, D - incorrect - pronoun error - ...storm's structure(singular)....their(plural)...

B - incorrect - unidiomatic - right idiom is for X, not Y

E - incorrect - use of and