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by logitech » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:06 pm
Archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

Archaeologist wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of the discovery by his team of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.

Writing the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson chronicled the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton by his team.

The discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton was chronicled in the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, being written by the archaeologist Donald Johanson.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.

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by raunekk » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:04 pm
Archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of the discovery by his team of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.


Writing the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson chronicled the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton by his team.

The discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton was chronicled in the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind,
being written by the archaeologist Donald Johanson

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.


Whats wrong with A????
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by Karen » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:17 pm
Raunekk, I like the way you used red to highlight ideas that should go together but were split apart. I agreed with what you indicated about choices B-D.

The problem with A is that it sounds as if the team discovered the skeleton in a book:

Archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

A is similar to saying "Holden is skating on page 185." Someone might say that if they were trying to describe what's happening on page 185 of a novel, but it sounds as if the guy is skating around on the page. This is the same kind of thing -- it sounds like they discovered a skeleton in his award-winning book.
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by logitech » Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:32 pm
Karen wrote: it sounds like they discovered a skeleton in his award-winning book.
Maybe they did ? :D

Thanks Karen, that was the exact reason why I did not pick A.
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by raunekk » Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:15 pm
Raunekk, I like the way you used red to highlight ideas that should go together but were split apart. I agreed with what you indicated about choices C-E.

Thanks Karen.

Now i see why A is out..may be i was concentrating too much on finding the grammatical errors..

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by niraj_a » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:47 am
so what is wrong with E again?

thats what i chose.
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by Karen » Wed Nov 19, 2008 7:50 am
Sorry -- E is the answer. When I wrote above that I liked what Raunekk had indicated about C-E, I meant B-D.
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by niraj_a » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:01 am
aah thats what threw me off. i don't tend to check OAs until I have read everyone's comments :)

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by vittalgmat » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:25 am
raunekk wrote:Archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of the discovery by his team of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.


Writing the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson chronicled the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton by his team.

The discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton was chronicled in the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind,
being written by the archaeologist Donald Johanson

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.


Whats wrong with A????
I think "being" is redundant in D above.
Also "being" is kind of taboo on GMAT SC !!!

what do u think??
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by Karen » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:38 am
'being' is often but not always taboo on the GMAT. In D, it's clearly wrong -- it's unnecessary and it changes the meaning (it makes it sound as if the book is currently in the process of being written).
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Re: Donald Johanson

by iamcste » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:02 am
logitech wrote:Archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

Archaeologist wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of the discovery by his team of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.

Writing the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson chronicled the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton by his team.

The discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton was chronicled in the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, being written by the archaeologist Donald Johanson.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.

OA E
Is Antecedent to the second "His" in the option A ambiguous.??
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Re: Donald Johanson

by iamcste » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:46 am
iamcste wrote:
logitech wrote:Archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

Archaeologist wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton in his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of the discovery by his team of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.

Writing the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson chronicled the discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton by his team.

The discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton was chronicled in the award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, being written by the archaeologist Donald Johanson.

In his award-winning book Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, archaeologist Donald Johanson wrote of his team's discovery of a 3.2 million-year-old skeleton.

OA E
Is Antecedent to the second "His" in the option A ambiguous.??
Any answers pls
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Re: Donald Johanson

by logitech » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:02 pm
iamcste wrote:
Is Antecedent to the second "His" in the option A ambiguous.??
Any answers pls[/quote]

Why do you think HIS is ambiguous in B ?
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by Karen » Wed Nov 19, 2008 5:10 pm
I don't think 'his' is ambiguous, because the skeleton would not be referred to as 'he' -- it would be an it.
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