Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
A. to express emotion and to intimidate
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating
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Can you please explain your reasoning? FYI, that is not the OA.blackjack wrote:A? Please provide OA.
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I am between B and C but would go with C.......gmatIntent wrote:Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
A. to express emotion and to intimidate
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating
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I am not sure how to eliminate the choices. Got completely stuck.
B ---- though intended to is the right idiom but usage of intimidating is wrong
whats the OA????
I'll go with option D.It serves the parallelism!gmatIntent wrote:Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
A. to express emotion and to intimidate
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating
Source: 800Score
I am not sure how to eliminate the choices. Got completely stuck.
eg ; some sounds were intended as a warning call,while others were to express emotion or intimidate predators.
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idiom used here is IDIOM X while Y, NOT X,Y and Z
A. to express emotion and to intimidate-- Doesn't care about X
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating -
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate-SAME as S
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidatin -- What the hell
A. to express emotion and to intimidate-- Doesn't care about X
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating -
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate-SAME as S
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidatin -- What the hell
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gmatIntent wrote:Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
it needs parallel structure in the 2nd part of the sentence;
1) some were intended to warning call
2) were expressed emotion
3) were intimidated the predators
in this case, we can eliminate "were" from the last 2 without any changes to the meaning... in fact, the first'were' can be applied for other two as well ==> choice C
A. to express emotion and to intimidate not parallel in structure
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating not parallel
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate using 'or' sounds strange besides not parallel
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating it is wordy and akward
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We have to see the Tense - the complete sentence is in 'Past tense'gmatIntent wrote:Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
A. to express emotion and to intimidate
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating
C. expressed emotion or intimidated
D. were to express emotion or intimidate
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating
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I am not sure how to eliminate the choices. Got completely stuck.
Eliminate option A.
B and D lack parallelism
E is awkward and grammatically incorrect
option C is the right choice.
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I think the answer is A.
Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
A. to express emotion and to intimidate : I can clearly see a parallelism here. See it this way (while other sounds were intended to express emotions and to intimidate predators)
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating - Intimidating is not parallel to 'express emotion'.
C. expressed emotion or intimidated - It's not the sounds that expressed emotions or intimidated predators.
D. were to express emotion or intimidate - 'or' is changing the intent of the oroginal sentence here.
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating - No need to explain
Elephants observed in Kenya used different trumpeting noises depending on the purpose of their call: some sounds were intended as a warning call, while others to express emotion and to intimidate predators.
A. to express emotion and to intimidate : I can clearly see a parallelism here. See it this way (while other sounds were intended to express emotions and to intimidate predators)
B. intended to express emotion and intimidating - Intimidating is not parallel to 'express emotion'.
C. expressed emotion or intimidated - It's not the sounds that expressed emotions or intimidated predators.
D. were to express emotion or intimidate - 'or' is changing the intent of the oroginal sentence here.
E. intended the expressing of emotion or intimidating - No need to explain