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Five hundred million different species of living

by aspirant2011 » Sat May 28, 2011 10:40 am
Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them vanishing.

A. Five hundred million different species of living creatures have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them vanishing.
B. Nearly 99 percent of five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth have vanished.
C. Vanished are nearly 99 percent of the five hundred million different species of living creatures that appeared on Earth.
D. Of five hundred million different species of living creatures that have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent of them have vanished.
E. Of the five hundred million different species of living creatures that have appeared on Earth, nearly 99 percent have vanished.

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by cans » Sat May 28, 2011 10:51 am
IMO B
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by maihuna » Sat May 28, 2011 10:58 am
IMO B:
A: Tense issue,
C: Convoluted not the best.
D E: Un-necessary modifier issue.
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by sameerballani » Sun May 29, 2011 3:35 am
IMO B

OA and source please.

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by aspirant2011 » Sun May 29, 2011 7:23 am
Hi Guys,

I also went with option B but the OA given is E :-(.............source is Aristotle.........
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by smackmartine » Sun May 29, 2011 11:07 am
In fact I selected E. I was wondering why most of the guys selected B

I did not consider B, because there is a huge gap between the subject and the verb "vanished".(OG says that the subject and the verb should be as close as possible.)

D & E are the contenders.

In option D "them" is ambiguous. "them" can refer to either "species" or "creatures" ,so D is out.

E is better .(I don't like it though)
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by David@VeritasPrep » Sun May 29, 2011 4:34 pm
Got a PM asking me to chime in...

Let me try to make B more acceptable. My words in red...

"Nearly 99 percent of THE five hundred million different species of living creatures that HAVE appeared on Earth have vanished.

Not perfect, but acceptable.

E is good as it is written. This is perfectly appropriate.
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by aspirant2011 » Mon May 30, 2011 7:55 am
David@VeritasPrep wrote:Got a PM asking me to chime in...

Let me try to make B more acceptable. My words in red...

"Nearly 99 percent of THE five hundred million different species of living creatures that HAVE appeared on Earth have vanished.

Not perfect, but acceptable.

E is good as it is written. This is perfectly appropriate.
Hi David,

I have a doubt on two things i.e

1. In option E don't you feel that comma + Fanboys rule is not being followed because the portion after comma "nearly 99 percent have vanished." is not an Independent clause???????

2. Can you please elaborate on the option B which you modified and feel would have been correct.........

Please clarify on the above two parts.
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by yansinlll » Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:39 pm
aspirant2011 wrote:
David@VeritasPrep wrote:Got a PM asking me to chime in...

Let me try to make B more acceptable. My words in red...

"Nearly 99 percent of THE five hundred million different species of living creatures that HAVE appeared on Earth have vanished.

Not perfect, but acceptable.

E is good as it is written. This is perfectly appropriate.
Hi David,

I have a doubt on two things i.e

1. In option E don't you feel that comma + Fanboys rule is not being followed because the portion after comma "nearly 99 percent have vanished." is not an Independent clause???????

2. Can you please elaborate on the option B which you modified and feel would have been correct.........

Please clarify on the above two parts.



of your 2 questions, maybe i can give some explanation on question 1
option E does not need the FANBOYS, because the first part, "of the nearly XXX", is not a clause, but just a fragment. Thus the rest of the sentence is of complete structure.
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