Markets are often advocated as the most efficient avenue to human happiness, since markets allow producers and consumers to meet a seeming limitless number of needs and desires, each arising from a specific individual.
A) a seeming limitless number of needs and desires, each arising from
B) a seeming limitless number of needs and desires, each arising out of
C) a seeming limitless number of needs and desires, all arising from
D) a seemingly limitless number of needs and desires, all of them arising out of
E) a seemingly limitless number of needs and desires, each arising from
This question is based on Idiomatic Usage and Construction.
A vertical scan of the options shows us that Options A, B, and C begin with the adjective ‘seeming’ and Options D and E begin with the adverb ‘seemingly’. Since the word modifies the adjective ‘limitless’, it should be in the form of an adverb and not an adjective. So, Options A, B, and C can be eliminated.
The verb ‘arise’ is followed by the preposition ‘from’. In Option D, the verb is followed by the phrase ‘out of’, which is not idiomatically appropriate.
Furthermore, the modifier at the end of the sentence describes the subject “a seemingly limitless number of needs and desires”. When a modifier describes a group of things, it generally breaks it down to its individual elements.
So, between a modifier beginning with ‘all’, which includes the whole group and a modifier beginning with ‘each’, which singles out each element of the group, the latter is considered more appropriate.
So, Option D can be eliminated.
Option E contains the adverb form ‘seemingly’ to modify the adjective ‘limitless’. The modifier also begins with ‘each’. Therefore, E is the most appropriate option.