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by PAB2706 » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:36 am
20. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

(A) Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(B) Brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(C) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(D) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(E) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

OA D

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by ayushr » Mon Mar 02, 2009 12:59 am
1st Error - We need IS instead of ARE in the first part of sentence.
Rarely fatal is the Bite NOT the Spiders. Correcting this error leaves us with C, D and E.

E - they is used instead of it – Hence E is out ..

C - their is used incorrectly - Hence C is out ..

D correctly retains its to modify spider ..

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by bmlaud » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:32 am
Yes, it should be D.

Expl.n same as given in the previous post.
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by PAB2706 » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:28 am
why are we not specifying the bite of the spider....i knew D was ok.. but i thot it shud be specific. the brown recluse spider is not fatal but the bite of the brown recluse spider is fatal.... why m i wrong?
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by bmlaud » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:21 am
None of the options, except (A) which is wrong,has the word 'bite' in it.

IMO the correct sentence should be

The bite of brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to spider's poison.
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by earth@work » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:26 am
I feel none of these is correct, BITE is missing in all sentences except A and A also has error:
Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison: bite is the subject and should be followed by singular verb.
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by arjunn7 » Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:37 am
None of the options are correct..

It is the BITE which causes the wounds.. Not the spiders.

Only A has Bite in it.. but its not grammatically correct..
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Re: brown recluse spider

by piyush_nitt » Tue Mar 03, 2009 2:45 am
PAB2706 wrote:20. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

(A) Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(B) Brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(C) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(D) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(E) The brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

OA D

Pls explain the answer.
What is the source???

I feel none of the option is correct.

B,C,D,E are run ON sentences Isn't it ??
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