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by Kajiabeat » Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:25 am
51. In his experiments with gravity, Isaac Newton showed how the motion of each planet in the solar system results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and of all the other planets, each contributing according to their mass and distance from the others.

A. of all the other planets, each contributing according to their
B. of all the other planets, with each of them contributing according to their
C. all the other planets, each of which contributing according to its
D. all the other planets, each contributing according to its
E. all the other planets, each of which contribute according to their

Ans : D
Hi Ron,

what's the difference between C and D? I think both of them are right.....

as I think in C, the "which" can be "the sun and all the other planets" which is reasonalble and it seems GMAT doesn't eliminate a choice just because of redundancy.

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by adi_800 » Sun Aug 14, 2011 11:32 am
Kajiabeat wrote:
51. In his experiments with gravity, Isaac Newton showed how the motion of each planet in the solar system results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and of all the other planets, each contributing according to their mass and distance from the others.

A. of all the other planets, each contributing according to their
B. of all the other planets, with each of them contributing according to their
C. all the other planets, each of which contributing according to its
D. all the other planets, each contributing according to its
E. all the other planets, each of which contribute according to their

Ans : D
Hi Ron,

what's the difference between C and D? I think both of them are right.....

as I think in C, the "which" can be "the sun and all the other planets" which is reasonalble and it seems GMAT doesn't eliminate a choice just because of redundancy.

thank you !
a clause should follow after the relative pronoun and C does not have a clause after it...
OA should be D...

A -> I guess we do not need to have ||sm in every element... of the sun and of the planets sound good but this option is wrong for not using its n instead using their..
B -> Same as B..
C -> As mentioned above
D-> Perfect
E -> S n V do not agree...each shud have contributes..
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:54 pm
"Each" is singular and should not be paired with a plural "their."
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by lunarpower » Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:08 am
Kajiabeat wrote:what's the difference between C and D? I think both of them are right.....
no. "each of which" -- like "which" by itself -- must be followed by a verb. there's no verb in that construction.
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by Kajiabeat » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:33 am
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Kajiabeat wrote:what's the difference between C and D? I think both of them are right.....
no. "each of which" -- like "which" by itself -- must be followed by a verb. there's no verb in that construction.
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by sahilchaudhary » Tue Sep 24, 2013 9:58 am
A,B and E can be eliminated on because they use "each....their" as it is wrong.

Between C and D, I choose D as it is short and clear enough in meaning.
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by swarnav999 » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:04 am
nehakhas1 wrote:51. In his experiments with gravity, Isaac Newton showed how the motion of each planet in the solar system results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and of all the other planets, each contributing according to their mass and distance from the others.

A. of all the other planets, each contributing according to their
B. of all the other planets, with each of them contributing according to their
C. all the other planets, each of which contributing according to its
D. all the other planets, each contributing according to its
E. all the other planets, each of which contribute according to their

Ans : a
What is the Official Answer? Please give it clearly.
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by swarnav999 » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:12 am
nehakhas1 wrote:51. In his experiments with gravity, Isaac Newton showed how the motion of each planet in the solar system results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and of all the other planets, each contributing according to their mass and distance from the others.

A. of all the other planets, each contributing according to their
B. of all the other planets, with each of them contributing according to their
C. all the other planets, each of which contributing according to its
D. all the other planets, each contributing according to its
E. all the other planets, each of which contribute according to their

Ans : a
What is the Official Answer? Please give it clearly.
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by rohitmanglik » Wed Sep 16, 2015 6:30 am
As I studied earlier, each can have both plural and singular noun depending whether we have plural noun before or after "each".

e.g.
The three networks each: Plural
Each of the three networks: Singular

Is this concept wrong? Over here each came after plural noun so why we don't have plural pronoun?
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by thuyduong91vnu » Thu May 05, 2016 10:25 pm
lunarpower wrote: no. "each of which" -- like "which" by itself -- must be followed by a verb. there's no verb in that construction.
Hi Ron,

In case that we use "them" instead of "which", is the modified sentence considered correct? I mean, is it correct to say "The motion results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and all the other planets, each of them contributing according to its..."?

Thanks for your help :)
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