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Birds known as honeyguides

by atulmangal » Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:33 pm
Birds known as honeyguides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees' nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying
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by singh181 » Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:47 pm
atulmangal wrote:Birds known as honeyguides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees' nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying
The sentence intends to say that Bird leads other animal to bees' nest for its food.

A and E are out. Pronoun issue (bird is singular and "they" is plural)
B and D create a awkward sentence structure with "and". "with chattering" / "by chattering" and "its flying" are not parallel structure, and sentence does not require // activity here.

IMO C
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by AIM GMAT » Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:17 am
IMO C.

the bird is singular so use of it is properly done in option C.
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by HSPA » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:04 am
Yes.. the bird leads and flies ahead

C it shall be
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by aspirant2011 » Sun Mar 27, 2011 8:55 am
yup it should be C....... I agree with singh 181's explanation.............
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by atulmangal » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:08 am
The OA is C only
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by way2ashish » Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:05 am
Birds known as honeyguides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees' nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
A. with their chattering when they fly
B. with chattering and its flying
C. by chattering as it flies
D. by chattering and its flying
E. by chattering as they are flying

A. Bird is singular so their i wrong
B. its flying is awkward
C. Correct
D. its flying is awkward
E. they refers to plural but here we are referring to a singualar bird
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