SC's Question number - 799 , 800

799). The owner of Steele’s Grocery in Osage, Ohio, saved $600 monthly on heat during the winter by putting all his refrigerator air compressors together in an insulated compartment, then installing two fans and a duct that carried waste heat from the compressors into the main part of the store.

(A) then installing two fans and a duct that carried

(B) then he installing two fans and a duct that carried

(C) then two fans were installed with a duct that carried

(D) installing two fans, and then carrying through a duct

(E) installing two fans, and a duct carrying

800). The Parthenon was a church from 1204 until 1456, when Athens was taken by General Mohammed the Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as a fortress.

(A) who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as

(B) who, establishing a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like

(C) who, when he had established a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like

(D) who had established a mosque in the building, using the Acropolis to be

(E) establishing a mosque in the building and using the Acropolis as


Answers:

799). OA - A

B - incorrect - awkward..then he installing two fans

C - incorrect - passive

D - incorrect - distorts the meaning...illogically suggests as if the owner carried the duct

E - incorrect - violating parallelism

800). (OG 10th Ques No - 120) - OA - A

OE: Choice A, the best answer, correctly supplies the past tense verbs established and used to describe two actions performed in 1456; also, it idiomatically employs the phrase used the Acropolis as a fortress, in which used as means "employed in the capacity of."

B, C - incorrect - replace as with like. Furthermore, in C, when he had established a mosque distorts the intended meaning by stating that the first action was
completed before the second was begun

D - incorrect - had established... using states that Mohammed had
already performed the actions before capturing Athens. Further D uses unidiomatic construction "using x to be y."

E - incorrect - establishing and using modify Athens, thus
producing an absurd statement.