Marine Life

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Marine Life

by fighting_cax » Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:49 pm
The failing of the book lies not in a lack of attention to scientific detail but in the depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world with emotional overtones that reduce the credibility of the work.
(A) depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world with emotional overtones that
(B) fact that it depicts marine world scenes of life and death as having emotional overtones that
(C) depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world, whose emotional overtones
(D) depiction of marine world scenes of life and death, which have emotional overtones and thus
(E) fact that it depicts scenes of life and death in the marine world, whose emotional overtones

OA is A

Please explain.

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by nervesofsteel » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:50 am
Right idiom is - Not in X but in Y
X and Y should be parallel...

(A) depiction of scenes of life and D€@th in the marine world with emotional overtones that < Correct

(B) fact that it depicts marine world scenes of life and D€@th as having emotional overtones that < Wrong "usage of as having "

(C) depiction of scenes of life and D€@th in the marine world, whose emotional overtones <- whose is used human ...wrong

(D) depiction of marine world scenes of life and D€@th, which have emotional overtones and thus <- which refers to Life and death.. thus wrong..

(E) fact that it depicts scenes of life and D€@th in the marine world, whose emotional overtones <- whose is used human ...wrong