Sentence Correction

1. More than one hundred years ago, students of ornithology reported that hummingbirds can hover as insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.

A. As insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.
B. Like insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.
C. As insects do that flit gracefully from one flower to others.
D. Like insects do that flit gracefully from one flower to others.
E. As do insects that flit gracefully from one flower to some other one.

2. The electronics manufacturer announced that while earnings grew by 5% in the last quarter, revenue decreased whereas it might have been expected for it to rise.

A. it might have been expected for it to rise.
B. it might have been expected to rise.
C. it might have been expected that it should rise.
D. its rise might have been expected.
E. there might have been an expectation it would rise.

3. The Chinese army consists of several million young men, about equivalent to the enrolment of colleges in India.
A. Equivalent to the enrolment of
B. The equivalent of those enrolled in
C. Equal to those who are enrolled in
D. As many as the enrolment of
E. As many as are enrolled in

4. Recently discovered gravitational lensing around certain proximate stars strongly suggests that the nine planets of our solar system are a common phenomenon in the universe rather than developing incidentally from a unique galactic phenomenon several billion years ago.

A. rather than developing incidentally from
B. rather than a type that developed incidentally from
C. rather than a type whose developement was incidentally of
D. instead of developing incidentally from
E. instead of a developement incidental of

IMO A for 1
IMO D for 2
IMO E for 3
IMO B for 4

IMO ...
[spoiler]1. B
2. B
3. E
4. E[/spoiler]

Pooja Bhula wrote:1. More than one hundred years ago, students of ornithology reported that hummingbirds can hover as insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.

A. As insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.
B. Like insects flitting gracefully from one flower to another.
C. As insects do that flit gracefully from one flower to others.
D. Like insects do that flit gracefully from one flower to others.
E. As do insects that flit gracefully from one flower to some other one.

2. The electronics manufacturer announced that while earnings grew by 5% in the last quarter, revenue decreased whereas it might have been expected for it to rise.

A. it might have been expected for it to rise.
B. it might have been expected to rise.
C. it might have been expected that it should rise.
D. its rise might have been expected.
E. there might have been an expectation it would rise.

3. The Chinese army consists of several million young men, about equivalent to the enrolment of colleges in India.
A. Equivalent to the enrolment of
B. The equivalent of those enrolled in
C. Equal to those who are enrolled in
D. As many as the enrolment of
E. As many as are enrolled in

4. Recently discovered gravitational lensing around certain proximate stars strongly suggests that the nine planets of our solar system are a common phenomenon in the universe rather than developing incidentally from a unique galactic phenomenon several billion years ago.

A. rather than developing incidentally from
B. rather than a type that developed incidentally from
C. rather than a type whose developement was incidentally of
D. instead of developing incidentally from
E. instead of a developement incidental of

Please remember to provide OA's or tell if you don't have them

[spoiler]1-B
2-D
3-C
4-B[/spoiler]

gmatv09 wrote:IMO ...
[spoiler]1. B
2. B
3. E
4. E[/spoiler]

One more vote for u!!

gmatmachoman wrote:

gmatv09 wrote:IMO ...
[spoiler]1. B
2. B
3. E
4. E[/spoiler]

One more vote for u!!

And another one...

Hi guys the answers are:
1.B
2.B
3.E
4.B

These are the one's I got wrong so those of you who have got the correct answers please explain the logic to me...

1 --> B:
Eliminate A, C, and E because it falsely uses as. Hummingbirds are no insects and can therefore only hover LIKE insects
synonym to like is similar.
Between B and D one can eliminate D because it is very circumstantial.

2 --> B:
eliminate A because it redundantly refery to revenue
eliminate C because should is obsolete
eliminate D because "its" is wrong, but I cannot give you a grammatical rule for that.
eliminate E because it is circumstantial plus it is missing the word that: there might have been an expectation that it would rise.

3. --> E:
This is just "gut feeling". A, B, C and D sound very awkward to me.

4. --> B: IMO is E. Can anybody explain why it should be B?

Hi i still did not understand the 1st one... LIKE as you correctly said is for similarity and comparison.... but it is used whilst comparing nouns... I the first question hovering is being compared with flitting so shouldn't we use AS? coz its used for comparing actions...

Pooja Bhula wrote:Hi i still did not understand the 1st one... LIKE as you correctly said is for similarity and comparison.... but it is used whilst comparing nouns... I the first question hovering is being compared with flitting so shouldn't we use AS? coz its used for comparing actions...

I still think that hummingbirds are compared to insects and not the verbs are compared to each other.

Any experts on this?

I agree with Pooja for the 1st one. Any pointers ?
Also any explations for the last one ?

I agree with you guys on the first question. I see that "as" is correct because two actions are compared not noun ?????

Alll my answers are correct except 1. I think for 1st question A is correct as we should use AS because verbs are compared. Can some one explain this? Expert pls explain this

Some one asked for explanation to 4th Question-
This is Consistency question for me. What is there before rather than should be same after that.
Example- our solar system are a common phenomenon in the universe rather than. We need the same consistency after Rather than....
Choice B and C do that by using rather than a type . But option C in correctly uses whose which disqualify this option.
B is correct.

For ppl who are trying to understand the 4th question, well i figured out two things..one v. imp point is that the idiomatic expression is incidentally from... so that leaves us with only 2 options A and B... and the 2nd imp thing is that the nine planets cant be developing from, they collectively can be a type that develope from...

Hence, B