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Rubber ________ from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber.
(a) is produced
(b) producing
(c) that produce
(d) produced
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Rubber ________ from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber.
(a) is produced
(b) producing
(c) that produce
(d) produced
What's the best answer and why? Thank you.
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Rubber ________ from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber.
(a) is produced
(b) producing
(c) that produce
(d) produced
What's the best answer and why? Thank you.
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Rubber ________ from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber.
(a) is produced
(b) producing
(c) that produce
(d) produced
What's the best answer and why? Thank you.
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The verb in this sentence is the word 'is' appearing right before 'difficult'.
The predicate is 'difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'.
The subject is what comes before, namely 'Rubber ____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight', which is composed of a noun 'Rubber' followed by what is expected to be a relative clause and more specifically a restrictive relative clause. In other words, '____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight' is supposed to restrict the meaning of the noun 'Rubber'. It is not an arbitrary rubber what the sentence is referring to, it is a special type of rubber.
Therefore, the proper choice is (d), which is a participle. One of the uses of a participle is precisely forming these relative clauses.
'Producing', as a present participle, could also form the restrictive subordinate clause, if there word 'from' were not forced to follow it. For example, 'Rubber producing vulcanized silicone with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'. Of course, ignoring the veracity of such a claim, and looking only at the structure of the sentence. Since we have 'from' in the sentence, then (b) doesn't fit.
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The verb in this sentence is the word 'is' appearing right before 'difficult'.
The predicate is 'difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'.
The subject is what comes before, namely 'Rubber ____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight', which is composed of a noun 'Rubber' followed by what is expected to be a relative clause and more specifically a restrictive relative clause. In other words, '____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight' is supposed to restrict the meaning of the noun 'Rubber'. It is not an arbitrary rubber what the sentence is referring to, it is a special type of rubber.
Therefore, the proper choice is (d), which is a participle. One of the uses of a participle is precisely forming these relative clauses.
'Producing', as a present participle, could also form the restrictive subordinate clause, if there word 'from' were not forced to follow it. For example, 'Rubber producing vulcanized silicone with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'. Of course, ignoring the veracity of such a claim, and looking only at the structure of the sentence. Since we have 'from' in the sentence, then (b) doesn't fit.
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The verb in this sentence is the word 'is' appearing right before 'difficult'.
The predicate is 'difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'.
The subject is what comes before, namely 'Rubber ____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight', which is composed of a noun 'Rubber' followed by what is expected to be a relative clause and more specifically a restrictive relative clause. In other words, '____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight' is supposed to restrict the meaning of the noun 'Rubber'. It is not an arbitrary rubber what the sentence is referring to, it is a special type of rubber.
Therefore, the proper choice is (d), which is a participle. One of the uses of a participle is precisely forming these relative clauses.
'Producing', as a present participle, could also form the restrictive subordinate clause, if there word 'from' were not forced to follow it. For example, 'Rubber producing vulcanized silicone with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'. Of course, ignoring the veracity of such a claim, and looking only at the structure of the sentence. Since we have 'from' in the sentence, then (b) doesn't fit.
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The verb in this sentence is the word 'is' appearing right before 'difficult'.
The predicate is 'difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'.
The subject is what comes before, namely 'Rubber ____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight', which is composed of a noun 'Rubber' followed by what is expected to be a relative clause and more specifically a restrictive relative clause. In other words, '____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight' is supposed to restrict the meaning of the noun 'Rubber'. It is not an arbitrary rubber what the sentence is referring to, it is a special type of rubber.
Therefore, the proper choice is (d), which is a participle. One of the uses of a participle is precisely forming these relative clauses.
'Producing', as a present participle, could also form the restrictive subordinate clause, if there word 'from' were not forced to follow it. For example, 'Rubber producing vulcanized silicone with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'. Of course, ignoring the veracity of such a claim, and looking only at the structure of the sentence. Since we have 'from' in the sentence, then (b) doesn't fit.
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The verb in this sentence is the word 'is' appearing right before 'difficult'.
The predicate is 'difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'.
The subject is what comes before, namely 'Rubber ____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight', which is composed of a noun 'Rubber' followed by what is expected to be a relative clause and more specifically a restrictive relative clause. In other words, '____ from vulcanized silicone with high molecular weight' is supposed to restrict the meaning of the noun 'Rubber'. It is not an arbitrary rubber what the sentence is referring to, it is a special type of rubber.
Therefore, the proper choice is (d), which is a participle. One of the uses of a participle is precisely forming these relative clauses.
'Producing', as a present participle, could also form the restrictive subordinate clause, if there word 'from' were not forced to follow it. For example, 'Rubber producing vulcanized silicone with a high molecular weight is difficult to distinguish from natural rubber'. Of course, ignoring the veracity of such a claim, and looking only at the structure of the sentence. Since we have 'from' in the sentence, then (b) doesn't fit.
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