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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:17 pm
A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world's five billion people

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by paes » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:15 pm
IMO : A
B, C : alter the meaning of the sentence
E : passive
Also 'contend that' is looking a better choice.
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by bleedthegmat » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:25 pm
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world's five billion people

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IMO B

The only reason for B, as per me, is that it uses Active voice.. C also has active voice but it makes the second part optional hence changes the meaning slightly.

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by lazyjay » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:00 am
As already stated by paes answer B changes the meaning of the original sentence. In A, the scientists argue, that languages are traceable to some common root. In B however, they would argue, that there are many languages in the world.
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by ansumania » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:40 pm
OA pl...
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by bichoo » Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:23 am
IMO A

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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu Apr 29, 2010 7:36 pm
sorry friends yesterday i was no so active in the forum.
OA is A but i dont have any explanantions.
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by FightWithGMAT » Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:21 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world's five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world's five billion people

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B has redundancy. "of which" is not needed at all.

It is correct to say---

that the world's five billion people speak thousands of languages all can be traced
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