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by crazy4gmat » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:14 pm
Of all the wild animals in their area, none was more useful to the Delaware tribes than the Virginia white-tailed deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue.
(A) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut
(B) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used
(C) deer, which was a source of meat, with its hide used for clothing, antlers and bones for tools, as well as its sinews and gut used
(D) deer, which, as well as being a source of meat, its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut were
(E) deer, with, as well as being a source of meat, its hide used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut

OA A
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by ankit1383 » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:54 pm
crazy4gmat wrote:Of all the wild animals in their area, none was more useful to the Delaware tribes than the Virginia white-tailed deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue.
(A) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut
(B) deer: it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used since (used) for hide and not used for antlers and bone and then again used for last option is incorrect.For parallelism it should be used for all three option.Parallelism is also maintained if a word is used in first option and not repeated for others.
(C) deer, which was a source of meat, with its hide used for clothing, antlers and bones for tools, as well as its sinews and gut used as well as is redundant
(D) deer, which, as well as being a source of meat, its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut were
(E) deer, with, as well as being a source of meat, its hide used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut

OA A
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by maihuna » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:47 pm
no response..

for A vs B?

Is A better because was is explicit...

I can eliminate C D E easily..?
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by gmat740 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:50 am
Even I am confused between B and A

any takers for B?
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by rahulg83 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:31 am
I am for A
In B the phrase 'and its sinews and gut used ' is not parallel to the earlier one
it was a source of meat, and its hide was used for clothing, its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut for bindings and glue.
looks better than
it was a source of meat, and its hide used for clothing, with its antlers and bones for tools, and its sinews and gut used for bindings and glue.
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by Kunal_gmat » Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:45 am
can anybody explain the mistake in (C)
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by Vimpat » Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:32 pm
C can not be a answer for the reason that "after : the use of which can not modify the deer".
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by MakeUrTimeCount » Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:20 am
I would say 'which' correctly refers to deer, but fails in parallelism later on.
So C out.
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by ArunangsuSahu » Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:36 am
Need to look out for parallelism:

(B) INCORRECT="with" breaks it
(C) INCORRECT="which" non-essential modifier changes the meaning of the sentence
(D) INCORRECT="as well as being"
(E) INCORRECT ="as well as being"

(A) is the right choice
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