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by dodgeforgmat » Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:14 pm
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

Is it not that except for option A, all the other options require a semicolon after 'rarely fatal'.
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by arun@crackverbal » Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:57 pm
Can you complete option E?

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by sandy217 » Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:17 pm
dodgeforgmat wrote: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

Is it not that except for option A, all the other options require a semicolon after 'rarely fatal'.
IMO Bad question !! None of the answer choices is correct.
B,C,D,E creates run on. A has serious pronoun problem.
And as said , E looks incomplete.Answer choice should not be so obvious to eliminate :D
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