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by ska7945 » Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:36 am
With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has
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by stop@800 » Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:50 am
sentence looking little complicated.
I will prefer D [rest have modifier subject gap]
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by amitabhprasad » Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:00 am
Isn't population singular ?
If that's the case then A,D is out .
Whats OA, I am leaning to-wards B
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by stop@800 » Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:13 am
amitabhprasad wrote:Isn't population singular ?
Yes it is but
deer population that wildlife officials estimate to has...
does not make sense

"to have" here is not has/have's have

see this example, you will get an idea

He wants to have a big Car.

Hope it clarifies your doubt.
If that's the case then A,D is out .
Whats OA, I am leaning to-wards B
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Re: With no natural predators

by dumb.doofus » Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:56 pm
ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has
I think this is a case of modifier type of problem and only one sentence puts the modifier correctly i.e. Choice C

In all the sentences, the first part before comma is talking about deer, so the part after comma has to start with Deer. Only one sentence does that.

IMO, C. The biggest hint in this sentence is "no natural predators".. this applies to only deers. It cannot apply to New Jersey or anything else.
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by Bidisha800 » Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:36 pm
ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has
The adverbial modifier is correctly used only in (C)
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by adilka » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:00 pm
dumb.doofus wrote:The biggest hint in this sentence is "no natural predators".. this applies to only deers. It cannot apply to New Jersey or anything else.
Why can't "no natural predators" refer to NJ? New Jersey can have no natural predators. Right?
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by mjjking » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:07 pm
It has to be D, as the first sentence cannot refer to deer but to New Jersey!
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by Bidisha800 » Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:07 pm
New Jersey doesn't have natural predators ? NO !

(C) is correct
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by saichaitanyap » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:14 pm
Only B and C maintain parallelism -

With no natural predators and with expanses..

You can eliminate all other choices
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by sparsh.21 » Sun Jan 18, 2009 7:50 pm
Kindly post the OA .....
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Re: With no natural predators

by vscid » Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:26 pm
ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has
OA is C.

I believe 'natural predators' can modify New Jersey as well.
e.g: Without serial killers and murderers since 1997, the city of Lyons has a population that has been increasing by 5 percent every year.

I think the problem with D is poor parallelism and use of 'have' instead of 'has'.
We are picking the less worser here.
The GMAT is indeed adaptable. Whenever I answer RC, it proficiently 'adapts' itself to mark my 'right' answer 'wrong'.
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by gg1 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:09 am
bcoz population is singular like army, administration should it be singular ..??
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Re: With no natural predators

by Bidisha800 » Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:15 pm
vscid wrote:
ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has
OA is C.

I believe 'natural predators' can modify New Jersey as well.
e.g: Without serial killers and murderers since 1997, the city of Lyons has a population that has been increasing by 5 percent every year.

I think the problem with D is poor parallelism and use of 'have' instead of 'has'.
We are picking the less worser here.
No offense, but how can a state have "natural predator" ? NJ is the pray of some natural predator ? :x
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Re: With no natural predators

by graceguo98 » Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:42 pm
Bidisha800 wrote:
vscid wrote:
ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has
OA is C.

I believe 'natural predators' can modify New Jersey as well.
e.g: Without serial killers and murderers since 1997, the city of Lyons has a population that has been increasing by 5 percent every year.

I think the problem with D is poor parallelism and use of 'have' instead of 'has'.
We are picking the less worser here.
No offense, but how can a state have "natural predator" ? NJ is the pray of some natural predator ? :x
Why the state can not have predators? NJ as a place ,why NJ can not be subject of the sentence to own predators?
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