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In many of the world’s regions, increasing pressure on water resources has resulted both from expanding development, changes in climate, and from pollution, so that the future supply in some of the more arid areas is a concern going forward . A. both from expanding development, changes in climate...


Can u pls explain how the usage of descended from is correct in the right answer? One definition of to descend from is to develop from . The domestic cat descended from the African wildcat approximately 4,000 years ago. Conveyed meaning: The domestic cat DEVELOPED FROM the African wildcat approxima...

by rahulk123

Sun Mar 06, 2016 9:40 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Australian embryologists have found evidence
Replies: 19
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Can u pls explain how the usage of descended from is correct in the right answer? Check my two posts here: http://www.beatthegmat.com/og13-sc-question-128-cannot-agree-with-og-explanation-t278363.html Thank u for the post, but i read somewhere on mgmat that using descend as a verb, as it is used he...

by rahulk123

Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:20 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Australian embryologists have found evidence
Replies: 19
Views: 12352

Hope you find this thread useful: http://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/australian-embroyologists-have-found-evidence-t2938.html the two constructions have different meanings. is descended --> used to talk about evolution, ancestry, etc. (as in this context) has descended --> has moved, literally or ...

by rahulk123

Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:54 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Australian embryologists have found evidence
Replies: 19
Views: 12352

Hello Mitch, shouldn't it be is evolved in E. E. to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved evolved seems to be adjective here rather than verb. Best The elephant IS descended from an aquatic animal. Here, is (simple present tense) serves ...

by rahulk123

Sun Mar 06, 2016 6:53 am
Forum: Sentence Correction
Topic: Australian embryologists have found evidence
Replies: 19
Views: 12352