Since the start of space age, more and more littering

[Suapplle]

Since the start of space age, more and more littering has occured in orbits near Earth, often because of the intentional discarding of lens caps, packing material , fuel tanks and payload covers.

a) same
b) orbits near Earth have become more and more littered , often from
c) orbits near Earth became littered more and more, often resulting from
d) there have been more and more littering of orbits near Earth, often because of
e) there had been littering more and more of orbits near Earth, often with

I was able to get rid of E (had been), D (littering of orbits), C (no have/has form). Can you explain why A is out? And also if there's other errors I missed from the other sentences.

Thanks

Hi Ron.
I did not understand your explanation about the differences between "from", "resulting from" and "because of".
I did not catch the idea.

"X because of Y" means that action Y was the cause of action X, but IS NOT THE SAME THING as action X.

for instance,
more littering has occurred because of the lax enforcement of laws against littering --> this makes sense.
more littering has occurred because people have been throwing bottles along the side of the road --> doesn't make sense (these are two descriptions of the SAME action - they are not cause and effect).

"resulting from" can only be used to describe nouns. it can't be used as an adverbial modifiers.

Hi,Ron,I don't understand this point.please clarify,thanks in advance.
As I see,the intentional discarding is the reason why "orbits near earth have become more and more littered",becasue if there is no intentional discarding,orbits will not become littered.
Maybe I am wrong,please shed more light on~

[stucked]

so is the correct answer B?

[stucked]

Sorry I missed the post where the correct answer was mentioned. I got it.
It is B.

[RonPurewal]

"resulting from" can only be used to describe nouns. it can't be used as an adverbial modifiers.

Hi,Ron,I don't understand this point.please clarify,thanks in advance.
As I see,the intentional discarding is the reason why "orbits near earth have become more and more littered",becasue if there is no intentional discarding,orbits will not become littered.
Maybe I am wrong,please shed more light on~

"Resulting from" doesn't describe a noun, so it's wrong.

[bimladevi7777]

Is this a real GMAT question?

On some other websites related to GMAT the original sentence does not have an "of".

Since the start of space age, more and more littering has occured in orbits near Earth, often because of the intentional discarding of lens caps, packing material , fuel tanks and payload covers.

[RonPurewal]

Is this a real GMAT question?

On some other websites related to GMAT the original sentence does not have an "of".

This thread is pretty old. It has enough posts to suggest that the question is probably authentic; it's unlikely that such a large number of visitors would converge on a thread about some spurious question from another source. But, I suppose you never know.

In any case, the problem is poorly transcribed for sure, since "the start of space age" is not proper English.

Before any further posts are made on this thread, I'll ask that a screenshot of the problem (from the official GMAT Prep software) be posted.
Any further posts made without such a screenshot will be deleted.

Thanks.

[CrystalSpringston]

Hi Instructor,
Whether the "there be " construction in D and E is correct when it is excluded from other errors?
I am often confused by the "there be" construction. Obviousely, we cannot conclude that it is definitely wrong in SC. Could you also let us know how to make judgement on "there be" sentences?
Thank you!

[Chelsey Cooley]

Check Ron's post above - if you're asking a question about this problem, post a screenshot of it from the GMAT Prep software so we can confirm that it's an authentic problem and get an accurate transcription.

[CrystalSpringston]

Check Ron's post above - if you're asking a question about this problem, post a screenshot of it from the GMAT Prep software so we can confirm that it's an authentic problem and get an accurate transcription.

Hi Chelsey, How to post a screenshot. I found no where to upload

[RonPurewal]

if you don't know how to embed the image in your post, you can just upload it to an image-hosting site (e.g., postimage.org) and then post a direct link.

[RonPurewal]

...or, if you find a post in which an image IS embedded, you can just click "Reply with quote" and then you'll see how it is done (since the code will be quoted in your reply).
then you can just mimic what you see.

(if you do this, of course you should not actually post your 'reply'! the point of hitting the reply button is just to see how the original message is coded.)

[RonPurewal]

here is a post with an embedded image:
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... tml#p20733

go to it, press 'reply', and see how it's done. it's quite simple.

(i can't type out the actual commands, because they won't show up—the software will think i'm trying to embed an image!)

[CrystalSpringston]

Check Ron's post above - if you're asking a question about this problem, post a screenshot of it from the GMAT Prep software so we can confirm that it's an authentic problem and get an accurate transcription.

[CrystalSpringston]

[CrystalSpringston]

here is a post with an embedded image:
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... tml#p20733

go to it, press 'reply', and see how it's done. it's quite simple.

(i can't type out the actual commands, because they won't show up—the software will think i'm trying to embed an image!)

Thank you.
I uploaded the screenshot but it was very small. I don't know how to adjust the size.
BTW, I think an improvement of uploading pictures is possibly needed. Why cannot we upload the images from the local files directly? I think we can do this in most website, such as facebook.