126. As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.
(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
Solution:
Parallelism*
The underlined part taking advantage of off-season demand is a subordinate clause of will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round and hence, should have the ing form. Hence, D and E can be eliminated.
will enable fisheries to sell to standardize and to predict is the parallel structure.
Hence, A and C can be eliminated.
Thus, B is the best choice.
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(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
Solution:
Parallelism*
The underlined part taking advantage of off-season demand is a subordinate clause of will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round and hence, should have the ing form. Hence, D and E can be eliminated.
will enable fisheries to sell to standardize and to predict is the parallel structure.
Hence, A and C can be eliminated.
Thus, B is the best choice.
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