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by ansh.kumar » Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:09 am
THE CORRECT IDIOM IS EITHER X OR Y.
BOTH X AND Y SHOULD BE PARALLEL.FOR "d" the choice is that it uses the idiom "either..., or..." correctly verus C. C does not have the word "using" repeat itself for parallelism.
TO BE CORRECT "C" WUD HAV " USING" after OR PART.
thats why the OA is "D"
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by rashmi.kaushal » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:07 am
ansh.kumar wrote:THE CORRECT IDIOM IS EITHER X OR Y.
BOTH X AND Y SHOULD BE PARALLEL.FOR "d" the choice is that it uses the idiom "either..., or..." correctly verus C. C does not have the word "using" repeat itself for parallelism.
TO BE CORRECT "C" WUD HAV " USING" after OR PART.
thats why the OA is "D"
Thanks Ansh that was very helpful :D
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by ankurmit » Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:18 am
I agree that usage of Either/or is not correct in 1st sentence but I have a small doubt that why there should be "The list of animals that exhibit" in place of " The list of animals that exhibits".

I am confused :(
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by ankurmit » Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:22 am
Got my answer in previous posts.. :)
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by Tani » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:43 am
Think of "preference in" as being "preference within". You would say "the preference in the tenth grade is to take Algebra", but "tenth graders have a preference for algebra".
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by rashmi.kaushal » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:42 pm
Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:Think of "preference in" as being "preference within". You would say "the preference in the tenth grade is to take Algebra", but "tenth graders have a preference for algebra".
Thanks Tani .. very nicely explained .. it will be in my mind always :)
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