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Earth Post Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:12 pm
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    Despite its covering the entire planet. Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is fragmented into mobile semirigid plates.

    A. Despite its covering the entire planet，Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, rather it is
    B.Despite the fact that it covers the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but is
    C.Despite covering the entire planet, Earth's crust is neither seamless nor is it stationary, but rather
    D.Although it covers the entire planet, Earth’s crust is neither seamless nor stationary, but rather
    E.Although covering the entire planet, Earth has a crust that is not seamless or stationary, but

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    Post Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:28 pm
    IMO D

    The other options have either misplaced modifier problem or Parallelism issue.

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    Post Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:31 pm
    How to choose between despite and although?

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    Post Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:34 pm
    GmatKiss wrote:
    How to choose between despite and although?
    You won't need to chose between the two of them, here in C there is parallelism issue.
    Neither X nor Y. X and Y should parallel,which is the case in D.

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    Post Sun Apr 29, 2012 3:38 pm
    (D) it is for me.

    (A) and (E) can be quickly ruled out because we need earth's crust and not earth which is covering the planet.

    (B) despite the fact that it ..redundant. Also, neither seamless nor is it stationary are not
    parallel

    (C) despite covering - meaning issue and also wrong parallelism as mentioned in B

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