SC's Question number - 705 , 706

705). The cameras of the Voyager II spacecraft detected six small, previously unseen moons circling Uranus, which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting the distant planet.

(A) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting

(B) doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known to orbit

(C) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known in orbit around

(D) doubling to twelve the number of satellites now known as orbiting

(E) which doubles to twelve the number of satellites now known that orbit

706). The capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s population on the eve of the First World War was 51,919.

(A) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo’s population

(B) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, whose population

(C) Bosnia-Herzegovina is Sarajevo, with a population

(D) Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajevo having a population that

(E) Bosnia-Herzegovina, the population of Sarajevo


Answers:

705). (OG10th Ques no - 49) - OA - B

OE: The pronoun which should be used to refer to a previously mentioned noun, not to the idea expressed in an entire clause.

A, C, E - incorrect - which seems to refer to a vague concept involving the detection of moons, but there is no specific noun, such as detection, to which it can refer. Also in E, the use of the phrasing the number... now known that
orbit is ungrammatical and unclear. (In other words which is wrongly referring to Uranus)

B, D - incorrect - use the correct participial form, doubling, to modify the preceding clause, but D, like A, uses known as orbiting rather than known to orbit, a phrase that is more idiomatic in context.

706). OA - B - whose is correctly referring to population

A, E - incorrect - modifier error

C - incorrect - ...with...was...

D - incorrect - awkward