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by casfguy » Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:56 am
Heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved from the previous year, only look less appetizing than their round and red supermarket cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are more flavorful.
A. cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are
B. cousins, often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
C. cousins, often green and striped, or they have plenty of bumps and bruises, although they are
D. cousins; they are often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
E. cousins; they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are
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by bmlaud » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:00 am
IMO E

Joining two main clauses using a semi colon, ..... but they are..... for making sentence parallel.
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by raunekk » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:33 am
i will go with A..


what do "they" stands for in E..
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by rahulakacyrus » Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:12 am
A,B and C are out since often green and striped refers to red supermarket cousins.

Between D and E, I would choose E.
OA please...
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by jeevan.Gk » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:28 am
Yeah.. I too opt for E. parallelism[/b]
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by casfguy » Fri Feb 13, 2009 1:36 pm
OA is E.

I went with A, I have same issue here. What does they stand for?
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by rahulakacyrus » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:04 pm
notice "their"in the sentence.
So the subject here(Heirloom tomatoes), is plural and "it" is not used for it.
Thus we have to use "they"as in the E option.
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Re: heirloom tomatoes

by x2suresh » Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:23 pm
casfguy wrote:Heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved from the previous year, only look less appetizing than their round and red supermarket cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are more flavorful.
A. cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are
B. cousins, often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
C. cousins, often green and striped, or they have plenty of bumps and bruises, although they are
D. cousins; they are often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although
E. cousins; they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are
A,B,C -- run on sentences..

between D and E.
E maintains parallelsim..

"they" --> clearly refers to Heirloom tomatoes becuase. non-underline part, it is mentioned their counsins are red ..
you can say they are green again..
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