SC: parallelism

[vijaykumar_ntpc]

I read somewhere that "due to" has to be replaced by "caused by" and not "because of".
Is my understanding for the definition of "due to" correct? If so, only option B is left as correct answer.
Please clarify.

A is the correct answer

[vijaykumar_ntpc]

Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops among people in their common quest to conquer nature.
a. surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops
b. surfing’s appeal is its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops



originally developed by ....... is modifier of surfing .
an unpredictable background ............is modifier of maneuvering.
the sport's ujusual confluence ......, and the camaraderie .....,are two parallel statements.we can read as......
high paced maneuvering ,an unpredictable backdrop that is graceful and serene,violent and formidable,
so A is correct


here there are two modifiers and one parralel sentence.

c. surfing’s appeal to people is due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and developing camaraderie
d. surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, a backdrop that is unpredictable and that is, by turns, gracefully and serenely violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops
e. surfing appeals to people due to their unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

Several items are separated by comma, making it tough to understand several parts in the sentence. Instead of comma, can semicolon be right choice to link various items?
"Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering; an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable; and the camaraderie that often develops among people in their common quest to conquer nature."

[tim]

Orange, i'm not sure that you want to use a blanket rule about what can be replaced with what; in all cases it's preferable to consider what the sentence is trying to say and then to get rid of answer choices that are incorrect. Regardless of the reason you choose to use "due to", B is not the only answer left, as A includes the phrase "due to"..

Vijay, it looks like you don't have a question about this one; if i've missed it, please repost..

[SC312]

Hi Ron,

Is the use of "due to" correct in the option A. The "due to" seems to incorrectly modify "people".

A) surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and serene, violent and formidable, and the camaraderie that often develops

[tim]

[irrelevant post deleted in light of Ron's observation that this question is no longer active]

[SC312]

Tim,

I referred to the study hall of the 23rd-Sept-2010, in which Ron explained the use of due to [can be replaced by "caused by"]which needs to modify the noun preceding it in a construction such as "Subject +Verb+Object +Due to".

Also in the sentence ["surfing appeals to people due to the sport’s unusual confluence ..."] , I thought appeals is a verb and therefore cannot be modified by "due to" .

Let me know is this an exception to the rule or am I missing something.

Thanks

[RonPurewal]

sc312, you're correct.
because of that error, we deactivated this problem over 2 years ago.

(this is the danger of reading really old forum threads that haven't been updated in a long time; if you scroll up, you'll notice that you responded to a thread that hadn't seen a post since october 2010.)

the new version of this problem, which has been in the CAT software for the last 2.5 years, is this:

Originally developed by ancient Hawaiians, surfing is appealing because of its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high-paced maneuvering, because of an unpredictable backdrop that is, by turns, graceful and labored, serene and violent, and because of the camaraderie that often develops among people in their common quest to conquer nature.
A surfing is appealing because of its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high-paced maneuvering, because of an unpredictable backdrop that is by turns graceful and labored, serene and violent, and because of the camaraderie that often develops
B surfing’s appeal is its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high-paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is by turns graceful and labored, serene and violent, and the camaraderie that often develops
C surfing’s appeal to people is because of its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high-paced maneuvering, because of an unpredictable backdrop that is by turns graceful and labored, serene and violent, and developing camaraderie
D surfing is appealing because of its unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high-paced maneuvering, because of a backdrop that is unpredictable and that is by turns gracefully and serenely labored and violent, and the camaraderie that often develops
E surfing appeals to them because of having an unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high-paced maneuvering, an unpredictable backdrop that is by turns graceful and labored, serene and violent, and the camaraderie that often develops

[SC312]

Ron,

Thanks for your update and I am sorry for updating a very old post.

[tim]

Thanks for clarifying, Ron!

[TahmazR14]

"...unusual confluence of adrenaline, skill, and high maneuvering"

I was wondering whether it is correct to make the "maneuvering" parallel to other plain nouns

Thank you