Necks and Limbs

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Necks and Limbs

by zagcollins » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:58 am
The particular design of muscles and bones in the neck and limbs of the turtle allow that it can draw in its exposed parts such that an attacker can find nothing but hard shell to bite.

A. allow that it can draw in its exposed parts such that
B. allow it to draw in its exposed parts, and so
C. allows for it to draw in its exposed parts and that
D. allows that it can draw in its exposed parts, and so
E. allows it to draw in its exposed parts, so that


OA is E
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by ricky » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:33 am
IMO E is best answer.

What is OA?

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by kiranlegend » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:44 am
IMO E

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by rolodex » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:37 pm
IMO E

"design allows it" (it is referring to the turtle) so b/w C, D, E

C, D out beacuse it does not have "allows it"

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by ildude02 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 7:51 pm
My pick is C. I beleive E is not correct since "so that" is not the correct idiomatic usage, it should be so X that Y.

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by Vignesh.4384 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:06 pm
Hi ildude02,

See the sentence construction.
The tortoise has a design ..... so that attackers wil find nothing but that skull.

more over in option C .. why is the word for used uncessarily??

Please correct me if i am wrong

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by Aldiablo » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:35 pm
IMO E.


allow is wrong => A / B gone.

that usage is wrong => conveys different meaning => D gone.

C is wordy (for) , nonparallel (usage of that after 'and'), illogical.
When you think you can or you cannot, you are generally correct.

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by ildude02 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:17 am
Vignesh.4384 wrote:Hi ildude02,

See the sentence construction.
The tortoise has a design ..... so that attackers wil find nothing but that skull.

more over in option C .. why is the word for used uncessarily??

Please correct me if i am wrong
The only reason I didn't pick E was becoz I wasn't sure about the "so that" usage. I know that generally you would use so X that Y, where X and Y are parallel. But maybe we can use use "so that" without clause/phrase in between them.

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by vertigo05 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:26 am
shd be "E"

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by n_niaz » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:25 am
IMO E

have people forgot to put official answers here or what?

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by NSNguyen » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:13 am
the particular design - singular
-> verb singular , eliminate A, B
- allow sb to do sth - eliminate C, D
i go with E
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by GmatKiss » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:25 am
IMO:E

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