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Elephants observed in Kenya

by gmatIntent » Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:23 am
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. :(
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by blackjack » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:22 am
A? Please provide OA.
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by gmatIntent » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:10 am
blackjack wrote:A? Please provide OA.
Can you please explain your reasoning? FYI, that is not the OA.
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by aspirant2011 » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:17 am
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. :(
I am between B and C but would go with C.......

B ---- though intended to is the right idiom but usage of intimidating is wrong

whats the OA????
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by Baand » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:47 am
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. :(
I'll go with option D.It serves the parallelism!
eg ; some sounds were intended as a warning call,while others were to express emotion or intimidate predators.
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by gmatIntent » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:23 am
OA: C
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by mankey » Thu Sep 22, 2011 10:56 am
Can someone please explain this one? Please provide OA also.

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by mad2011 » Thu Sep 22, 2011 4:00 pm
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
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by mehrasa » Fri Sep 23, 2011 8:59 am
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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by saketk » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:07 am
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. :(
We have to see the Tense - the complete sentence is in 'Past tense'

Eliminate option A.

B and D lack parallelism

E is awkward and grammatically incorrect

option C is the right choice.
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by Nidhi4mba » Fri Sep 23, 2011 10:29 am
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 :-)
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