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by ska7945 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:03 am
Unlike other arachnids, which have their nerve cells evenly distributed along their bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's.
(A) bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's
(B) bodies, the scorpion's head had a cluster of nerve cells, as a mammal does
(C) body, the scorpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does
(D) body, nerve cells are clustered in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's
(E) body, a cluster of nerve cells is in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's

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by ska7945 » Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:13 am
can someone explain "their bodies" and "their body"?
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Re: Unlike other arachnids,

by anju » Fri Sep 05, 2008 6:36 pm
ska7945 wrote:Unlike other arachnids, which have their nerve cells evenly distributed along their bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's.
(A) bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's
(B) bodies, the scorpion's head had a cluster of nerve cells, as a mammal does
(C) body, the scorpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does
(D) body, nerve cells are clustered in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's
(E) body, a cluster of nerve cells is in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's

oa c
you have to make proper comparison
Unlike other arachnids.......the scorpion has
The comparison is between arachnids and scorpion and only option C correctly states that.
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by niraj_a » Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:35 am
but isn't 'as a mammal does' wrong, because as is used to compare actions, not nouns or objects.

if this is from the 1000 sets then this could easily be a worthless question.
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by codesnooker » Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:53 am
ska7945 wrote:can someone explain "their bodies" and "their body"?
In the question statement we are suppose to use "their body" because each arachnid has a single body, not the many bodies.

Example:

1. They write on their notebook. (Means each of them write on his particular one notebook).
2. They write on their notebooks. (Means each of them write on one or more of his notebooks).

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by codesnooker » Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:03 am
niraj_a wrote:but isn't 'as a mammal does' wrong, because as is used to compare actions, not nouns or objects.

if this is from the 1000 sets then this could easily be a worthless question.
I am not sure here about the usage of "AS". May be in case of comparing possession we may have to use word "AS" instead of "LIKE".

However, there is another reason to choose option (C) instead of any other option.

Unlike other arachnids, which have their nerve cells evenly distributed along their bodies, the scorpion nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's.

Because in the original sentence, arachnids come under non-underlined part, so to maintain continuity, we have to use Scorpion and Mammals. This feature only provides by option (C).

Hence choose (C).

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by niraj_a » Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:42 am
cool codesnooker
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by maihuna » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:10 pm
I also need explanation on why their body and not their bodies?

as for as is concerned I can answer that, as is used to compare clause...
corpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does...replace does by clusetr of nerve cells in its heads..

Though I got another reason to pick C :

uses of had vs has? has is good as it talks abt present

but still how their body?
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by tanviet » Fri Jan 09, 2009 2:02 am
"thier body" and "their bodies" are both acceptable and so the same

pls read, "distributive plural" in grammar book
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by sonu_thekool » Fri Jan 09, 2009 4:59 am
I went thru the process of elimination here...Please let me know if this works too.

A) scorpion nerve cells - WRONG since it means a particular type of nerve cells.
B) scorpion's head had - WRONG since it means it's head doesnt have the nerve cells now.
D) the statement begins with 'the nerve cell' after the comma while the comparison was between arachnids and scorpions - WRONG
E) the statement begins with 'a cluster of nerve cells' after the comma while the comparison was between arachnids and scorpions - WRONG

Leaves us with 'C' which seems to be better even though the sentence ends with 'as a mammal does'....
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by welcome » Fri Jan 09, 2009 6:52 am
Here is my logic of elimination.

(A) & (B) are out because of Bodies, though they are OK as per distributed plural, but they are spoiling the meaning of sentense. It should be in one body at a time. (Such as, "fingurS on his body" NOT "fingurs on his bodiES")

(D) & (E) are out because of comparision of two different object. Whenever Unlike comes, object appears before comma should be compared with the subject of the next clause, not with the predicate. Also no-essential clause can be removed from middle.

So the answer is (C)
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by pramendrapandeya » Fri May 16, 2014 9:20 am
Some time questions are difficult but answer are simple

Arachnids can not not have more than one body so their body

so a and b out are

among c,d, e

body, the scorpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does: Correct. This choice presents the logical contrast between "arachnids" and "scorpion".

unlike(used Parallel comparison) arachnids (noun) so caparison with noun -->only c has this , you can answer this question easily by this method.:) mind it question may be difficult but answers are simple :)
c is best we have
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