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by sulabh » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:58 am
More completely adapted for life in the trees than are the other anthropoids, gibbons move with tremendous facility and ease.
(A) More completely adapted for life in the trees than are the other anthropoids,
(B) Adapted more completely for tree life than any of the anthropoids,
(C) Being adapted more completely to tree life than any of the other anthropoids are,
(D) Adapting more completely to life in the trees than the adaptation of the other anthropoids,
(E) Having a more complete adaptation to life in the trees than that possessed by the other anthropoids,
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by gmatinjuly » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:57 pm
A are is unnecessary in sentence
C Being ..adapted..are…doesn’t modify gibbons
D adapatation is awkward
E too wordy

My answe is B , whats the OA
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by viveknarayanan » Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:24 pm
Hmm I think my answer is going to be C. Adapted sounds as though it means they are no longer adapted. I think present continuous might be the better one...

Please let me know if this is wrong.

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by chidcguy » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:29 pm
My pick is B.
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by atlantic » Mon Jun 16, 2008 11:09 pm
The correct idiom is 'adapt ... to' so eliminate A and B.

In C, 'tree life' refers to the life of the trees.

D awkward, it repeats the verb adapt

Remains E, the wordy, the longest, but the only correct choice.

Sulabh, can you please dig a hole on our ignorance and let the light of the OA iluminate our ideas.
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by gmatinjuly » Tue Jun 17, 2008 2:09 am
altantic good catch i think adap to is more apt.....ok guys waiting for OA then will resume discussion .....
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by codesnooker » Tue Jun 17, 2008 3:31 am
Though I had a confusion between (B) and (E) but I will go with (E).

A) --> Awkward Construction
B) --> Changes the meaning of original sentences (trees for life....)
C) --> Being + Passive Voice + Awkward Construction
D) --> Not Parallel
E) --> Not concise but correct.


Hence, IMO (E). What is OA?
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by sulabh » Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:02 am
Well, I had the same reasoning as your's atlanic,but it proved to be wrong.OA is A.
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