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Many kitchens today are equipped with high-speed electrical gadgets, such as blenders and food processors, which are able to inflict as serious injuries as those caused by an industrial wood-planing machine.

 

Meaning Analysis

• Many kitchens today are equipped with high-speed electrical gadgets, such as blenders and food processors,

The sentence starts by talking about how some specific kind of electronic appliances can be found in kitchens these days. Reading further:

• which are able to inflict as serious injuries as those
  • caused by an industrial wood-planing machine.

In this portion, the sentence says that the kitchen appliances mentioned earlier are capable of seriously wounding people. It then goes on to present a comparison. It says that the injuries these appliances can cause are comparable to the ones caused by a specific heavy-duty industrial machine in terms of the criticality of the resulting wounds.

 

To sum up, the sentence wants to convey that certain high-speed electronic appliances used in kitchen these days are capable of wounding a person as seriously as a particular kind of heavy-duty industrial machine is.

 

Error Analysis

 

 

 

 Comparison Error

 

The way the sentence is written, it seems to compare serious injuries caused by high-speed electrical kitchen appliances with the serious injuries caused by a wood-planing machine. In essence, the sentence compares one kind of injuries with another kind of injuries.

 

However, the sentence intends to say that the injuries caused by the modern-day kitchen appliances can be as serious as the injuries caused by the industrial machineries. So the intended comparison is between the seriousness of injuries caused by certain kitchen gadgets and the seriousness of the injuries caused by a wood-planing machine.

 

POE

Incorrect

 

This choice is incorrect for the reason stated in the error analysis.

Incorrect

 

1.  Comparison Error

 

This choice repeats the comparison error as in Choice A.

 

2.  Idiom Error

 

The phrase such as is used to present example. This choice uses this phrase to present comparison. This usage is absolutely incorrect.

Incorrect

 

1.  Modifier Errors

1. The comma + verb-ing modifier inflicting… modifies the preceding clause, illogically conveying that many kitchens inflict serious injuries as a result of being equipped with high-speed electronic appliances.
2. The modifier having been caused seems to modify the pronoun that, which incorrectly stands for the plural antecedent injuries. This construction illogically implies that the injuries by industrial wood-planing machine already happened. However, this isn’t the intended meaning of the original sentence.

 

2.  Pronoun Error

 

Singular pronoun that has been used to refer to plural injuries.

Incorrect

 

1.  Idiom Error

 

…capable to is an incorrect idiom. The correct idiom is capable of.

 

2.  Pronoun Error

 

This choice repeats the pronoun error of Choice C.

Correct

 

This indeed is the correct answer choice as it takes care of the comparison error of the original sentence.