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FINALCOUNTDOWN: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 56; Joined: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:38 am; Location: INdia

by FINALCOUNTDOWN » Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:25 am

985. Those who have visited the Grand Canyon have typically seen layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, with different colors that mark the passage of time like the rings in a tree trunk.
(A) seen layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, with different colors that mark
(B) see layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, whose different colors mark
(C) been seeing layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, whose different colors are markers of
(D) been able to see layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, with different colors marking
(E) seen layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, marking by different colors
D

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Alara533: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 73; Joined: Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:00 am; Thanked: 6 times; GMAT Score:680

by Alara533 » Mon Feb 02, 2009 12:16 am

IMO its A.

When i saw a different answer here, i checked some other forums. Check this out
https://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentenc ... yon-2.html
Seems like Kaplan 800 says A is correct.

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by raunekk » Mon Feb 02, 2009 1:30 am

https://www.beatthegmat.com/pls-help-me- ... 10308.html

you sure about the OA??

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by FINALCOUNTDOWN » Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:48 pm

raunekk wrote:https://www.beatthegmat.com/pls-help-me- ... 10308.html

you sure about the OA??

ya i am sure about OA,
See B,c andE can be rules out easily. The doubt is with A and E, what i feel the use of 'mark 'and 'marking' make all the difference. i think 'marking' correctly describes the ability of those colored sediments to display the passage of time. use of mark indicates that these colored sediments generally indicates the passage of time.

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by ivan.tretyakov » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:26 am

The OA is A from Kaplan 800

D is too wordy
The difference between mark and marking here is not important because it is gram. correct and doesn't change the meaning

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