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by kumar720 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:39 am
In an effort to shorten the time span and cut the costs needed to grow full size beef stock, many ranchers substitute cornmeal and ground bones for thier cattle's regular diet, branded by them to beome generic-grade beef.

A.
B. for the regular diet of their cattle which have been branded
C. for the regular diet of their cattle, having been branded
D. in place of their cattle's diet, for those of them branded
E. in place of the regular diet of their cattle to have been branded by them

IMO - A, OAB; please help me to understand the answer..![/url]
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by rohangupta83 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:09 am
imo: B

in choice B, which correctly modifies the cattle as the cattle is being branded to become generic grade beef.

A - awkward construction - branded by them - them? who?
B - correct - eliminates the pronoun error in the original sentence. 'which' correctly modifies cattle.
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by bhavika22 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:56 am
imo : B
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by bhavika22 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:31 am
imo : B
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by stop@800 » Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:27 pm
in A,
"branded by them to become"
alters the meaning
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by nervesofsteel » Wed Oct 15, 2008 11:33 pm
B for me too
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by karmayogi » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:05 am
The OA is indeed B. But I have one doubt: isn't comma required after 'cattle' and before 'which'? i.e. "cattle, which".
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by iamcste » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:15 am
karmayogi wrote:The OA is indeed B. But I have one doubt: isn't comma required after 'cattle' and before 'which'? i.e. "cattle, which".

Yes, its required...
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by ronniecoleman » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:21 am
Yup agree with Karmyogi and Iamcste...comma should be there...before which....
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by karmayogi » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:26 am
iamcste wrote:
karmayogi wrote:The OA is indeed B. But I have one doubt: isn't comma required after 'cattle' and before 'which'? i.e. "cattle, which".

Yes, its required...
That means, all options are wrong? And B is the best option among all wrong ones:).
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by iamcste » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:37 am
karmayogi wrote:
iamcste wrote:
karmayogi wrote:The OA is indeed B. But I have one doubt: isn't comma required after 'cattle' and before 'which'? i.e. "cattle, which".

Yes, its required...
That means, all options are wrong? And B is the best option among all wrong ones:).

well, unfortunately yes!
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by parallel_chase » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:47 am
Correct idiom : substitute X for Y

Eliminate D, E

We are substituting for cattle diet not for Cattle's diet

Eliminate A

Between B & C

If we include the comma before which, B is correct option. Otherwise all options are wrong.

Because in C. having - participle is not referring to cattle
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by iamcste » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:53 am
parallel_chase wrote:In C we need comma before which as discussed above.

Therefore B.
PC-did you mean B
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by parallel_chase » Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:55 am
iamcste wrote:
parallel_chase wrote:In C we need comma before which as discussed above.

Therefore B.
PC-did you mean B
Yeah B. My bad, I'll edit my above post.

Also I think the original poster just forgot to include the comma.
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by karmayogi » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:34 pm
parallel_chase wrote:
iamcste wrote:
parallel_chase wrote: Also I think the original poster just forgot to include the comma.
The question is from Manhattan SC, and there is no typo error in the posting. In the book itself there is no comma.
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