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- Vemuri
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IMO D
"Due to" means "caused by" & so is incorrectly used in A & B.
many biological traits are not the products of natural selection, favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but are simply random by-products....
"Due to" means "caused by" & so is incorrectly used in A & B.
many biological traits are not the products of natural selection, favored because they enhance reproduction or survival, but are simply random by-products....
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I feel E.
I feel use of they in D is not clear.
While on the second thought I feel correct idiom is
not x but y
so on C would fulfill the condition because are not x but are is not the correct way.
Anyways, I am looking forward to the correct answer.
I feel use of they in D is not clear.
While on the second thought I feel correct idiom is
not x but y
so on C would fulfill the condition because are not x but are is not the correct way.
Anyways, I am looking forward to the correct answer.
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The correct idiom is not X but Y where X and Y are parallel in the same clausenot x but y
so on C would fulfill the condition because are not x but are is not the correct way.
There is no idiom tested in this example.
E.g. He is not going to work but working from home.
This is one clause
comma + coordinating conjunction introduces the new Idependent clause.
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A & B are wrong as correctly mentioned by Vemuri.
Guys, there is an idiom not just because of x, but because of y
In this example as per the idiom C & D are the possible answers
Paleontologist X argued that many biological traits are not because of X, favored because of Y, but are random by-products of Z
plural noun traits requires the are, and hence D must be the answer.
I was thinking of C, but subject-verb agreement, in both answers they refers to the traits, no pronoun error.
Guys, there is an idiom not just because of x, but because of y
In this example as per the idiom C & D are the possible answers
Paleontologist X argued that many biological traits are not because of X, favored because of Y, but are random by-products of Z
plural noun traits requires the are, and hence D must be the answer.
I was thinking of C, but subject-verb agreement, in both answers they refers to the traits, no pronoun error.
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Whats an OA?schumi_gmat wrote:The correct idiom is not X but Y where X and Y are parallel in the same clausenot x but y
so on C would fulfill the condition because are not x but are is not the correct way.
There is no idiom tested in this example.
E.g. He is not going to work but working from home.
This is one clause
comma + coordinating conjunction introduces the new Idependent clause.
Schumi,
BUt Option D doesnot introduce a new Independent clause.
"But are" - No subject.
I picked B. because it correctly introduces the independent clause.
"because they are"
What do you think?