Question

The category 1 to 5 rating known as the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale provides an estimate of a hurricane’s potential ______________________________________ to blow away small buildings, completely destroy mobile homes, and cause severe window and door damage. a) to destroy or damage property, and is primarily determined from wind speed; a category 5storm has wind speeds high enough b) of destroying or damaging property, and is primarily determined from wind speed; a category 5 storm has wind speeds so high as c) to destroy or damage property, and is primarily determined by wind speed; a category 5 storm has wind speeds high enough d) to destroy or damage property, and is primarily determined by wind speed; a category 5 storm has wind speeds so high as e) of destroying or damaging property, and is primarily determined by wind speed; a category 5 storm has wind speeds so high as

Answer 1

Answer:

Option D: "to destroy or damage property, and is primarily determined by wind speed; a category 5 storm has wind speeds so high as"

Explanation:

Correct idioms associated with "potential" :

potential to (do) + a verb.

potential for + a noun

So option B and E (the ones that begin with "OF") are incorrect.

Then we have C; in which the idiom "so x as to y" is required instead to match the original meaning: that characteristic x (the wind speed) is so extreme in the particular case (a category 5 storm) that y results (small houses are blown away).

Option D uses all idioms correctly.