Birds known as honeyguides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees' nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying
Birds known as honeyguides
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The sentence intends to say that Bird leads other animal to bees' nest for its food.atulmangal wrote:Birds known as honeyguides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees' nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying
A and E are out. Pronoun issue (bird is singular and "they" is plural)
B and D create a awkward sentence structure with "and". "with chattering" / "by chattering" and "its flying" are not parallel structure, and sentence does not require // activity here.
IMO C
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Birds known as honeyguides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees' nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying
A. Bird is singular so their i wrong
B. its flying is awkward
C. Correct
D. its flying is awkward
E. they refers to plural but here we are referring to a singualar bird
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying
A. Bird is singular so their i wrong
B. its flying is awkward
C. Correct
D. its flying is awkward
E. they refers to plural but here we are referring to a singualar bird