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by vaivish » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:56 am
614. Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an ancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nile delta and the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.
(A) that flourished at the same time as the civilizations
(B) that had flourished at the same time as had the civilizations
(C) that flourished at the same time those had
(D) flourishing at the same time as those did
(E) flourishing at the same time as those were


OA is A
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by swati.sug » Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:57 am
A should be the answer
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by sibbineni » Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:11 pm
IMO A
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by gmattakers » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:36 pm
I would choose A too.
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by logitech » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:48 pm
I really do wonder what this person who posted this question will gain from

IMOs :evil:

This question is not asked so you can feed your Sentence Correction EGO but so we call LEARN something.

Why do you waste my time and all other people's time with your IMOs ?

Please stand behind your answer with an explanation so we all can benefit.

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by saurabh_dce08 » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:49 am
@@ logitech

buddy totally agree with you......

can anybody pls explain me...

"as" is used for comparing clauses...( a verb and a subject )
but i could not find the case in Option A

OR we have a case of some idiom involved..
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by rohangupta83 » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:28 am
logitech wrote:I really do wonder what this person who posted this question will gain from

IMOs :evil:

This question is not asked so you can feed your Sentence Correction EGO but so we call LEARN something.

Why do you waste my time and all other people's time with your IMOs ?

Please stand behind your answer with an explanation so we all can benefit.

Thanks for understanding.

Happy GMATing!
I totally agree with you - share knowledge to gain knowledge and vice-versa

Choice A is correct and here is why:

(A) that flourished at the same time as the civilizations
uses 'that' to introduce a clause - check
no past perfect tense - check
it would have been better if 'as' was accompanied by a 'verb'

(B) that had flourished at the same time as had the civilizations
can't use the past perfect tense 'had' as there is no action suggested in the sentence superseding the flourish of these civilizations.

(C) that flourished at the same time those had
can't use the past perfect tense 'had' as there is no action suggested in the sentence superseding the flourish of these civilizations.

(D) flourishing at the same time as those did
does not use 'that' to introduce a clause
can't use flourishing - must use past tense as the civilizations do not exist any more.

(E) flourishing at the same time as those were
does not use 'that' to introduce a clause
can't use flourishing - must use past tense as the civilizations do not exist any more.
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by robzoc » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:04 pm
IMO "A", thanks rohangupta83 for this usefull explanation...
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by raajan_p » Thu Oct 30, 2008 2:37 pm
Guys - Can anyone explain me about this piece of the sentence


the site of an ancient civilization that flourished at the same time as the civilizations in the Nile delta and the river valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.


I am thinking that the parallelism in this sentence is with the word "Flourished".

When we talk about the civilizations in the nile delta and the river valleys of the tigris and euphrates, where are we mentioning that these civilizations flourished as well?

Should we not include a word 'did' at the end of the sentence to maintain the parallelism?

Thanks![/b]
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by logitech » Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:48 pm
rohangupta83 wrote:
logitech wrote:I really do wonder what this person who posted this question will gain from

IMOs :evil:

This question is not asked so you can feed your Sentence Correction EGO but so we call LEARN something.

Why do you waste my time and all other people's time with your IMOs ?

Please stand behind your answer with an explanation so we all can benefit.

Thanks for understanding.

Happy GMATing!
I totally agree with you - share knowledge to gain knowledge and vice-versa

Choice A is correct and here is why:

(A) that flourished at the same time as the civilizations
uses 'that' to introduce a clause - check
no past perfect tense - check
it would have been better if 'as' was accompanied by a 'verb'

(B) that had flourished at the same time as had the civilizations
can't use the past perfect tense 'had' as there is no action suggested in the sentence superseding the flourish of these civilizations.

(C) that flourished at the same time those had
can't use the past perfect tense 'had' as there is no action suggested in the sentence superseding the flourish of these civilizations.

(D) flourishing at the same time as those did
does not use 'that' to introduce a clause
can't use flourishing - must use past tense as the civilizations do not exist any more.

(E) flourishing at the same time as those were
does not use 'that' to introduce a clause
can't use flourishing - must use past tense as the civilizations do not exist any more.

Text book explanation. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
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