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by gmat740 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 7:41 am
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The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

OA-D(I believe OA changes the meaning, speaks nothing about body etc)

What if in E instead of “have” we got “has”?
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by hemanth28 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 8:11 am
gmat740 wrote:747.
The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

OA-D(I believe OA changes the meaning, speaks nothing about body etc)

What if in E instead of “have” we got “have”?
let me correct your last sentence !!
What if in E instead of “have” we got “has”?

I choose D based on elimination (I think it is not absolutely right).

E is wrong because "the cheetah have bodies " is a blunder.

Had the option been "the cheetah has body that can accelerate..."
or "cheetahs have bodies that can accelerate.."

I would have chosen E.
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by real2008 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:36 am
hemanth28 wrote:
gmat740 wrote:747.
The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

OA-D(I believe OA changes the meaning, speaks nothing about body etc)

What if in E instead of “have” we got “have”?
let me correct your last sentence !!
What if in E instead of “have” we got “has”?

I choose D based on elimination (I think it is not absolutely right).

E is wrong because "the cheetah have bodies " is a blunder.

Had the option been "the cheetah has body that can accelerate..."
or "cheetahs have bodies that can accelerate.."

I would have chosen E.
I wonder whether body accelerates or the cheetah itself accelerates.....hence my doubt even if the choice e has 'has' instead of 'have'
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by hemanth28 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:07 am
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gmat740 wrote:747.
The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

OA-D(I believe OA changes the meaning, speaks nothing about body etc)

What if in E instead of “have” we got “have”?
let me correct your last sentence !!
What if in E instead of “have” we got “has”?

I choose D based on elimination (I think it is not absolutely right).

E is wrong because "the cheetah have bodies " is a blunder.

Had the option been "the cheetah has body that can accelerate..."
or "cheetahs have bodies that can accelerate.."

I would have chosen E.
I wonder whether body accelerates or the cheetah itself accelerates.....hence my doubt even if the choice e has 'has' instead of 'have'
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:00 am
Experts please tell....then what would have been the answer ? if has would have been there ?
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by rahulg83 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:38 am
I'd select D any day here, even if E uses 'has'.

as posted above a cheetah's body can't accelerate..
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by Domnu » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:40 am
rahulg83 wrote:I'd select D any day here, even if E uses 'has'.

as posted above a cheetah's body can't accelerate..
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It would be a bit close to call in that case; this wouldn't be a good GMAT question.
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by ranell » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:20 pm
gmat740 wrote:747.
The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

OA-D(I believe OA changes the meaning, speaks nothing about body etc)

What if in E instead of “have” we got “have”?
I would go with D. The fastest of mammals correctly modifies the cheetah, not the body, as the body is not the mammal. D is clear and precise
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by BlindVision » Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:07 pm
gmat740 wrote:747.
The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to accelerate from one to forty miles per hour in less than two seconds and reach speeds of seventy miles per hour.

(A) The fastest of mammals, cheetah’s bodies are geared to
(B) The fastest of mammals, the body of cheetah’s bodies is able to
(C) Faster than other mammals, the body of the cheetah is geared to
(D) The fastest of mammals, the cheetah can
(E) The cheetah, the fastest of mammals, have bodies that can

OA-D(I believe OA changes the meaning, speaks nothing about body etc)

What if in E instead of “have” we got “have”?
In "E", if you omit the fastest of mammals and read it as The cheetah, have bodies that can, it doesn't sound right, even if the word has was in place of have.
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by arora007 » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:41 am
Even I chose E, as D would have changed the meaning....


In the real GMAT if we are caught somewhere... should we give priority to 'meaning' or 'grammar which seems logical' ??

I ask this as...
many a times on the OG , I have seen that 'parallelism' wins over grammar which seems logical.
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by uwhusky » Thu Jul 29, 2010 6:50 am
arora007 wrote:Even I chose E, as D would have changed the meaning....


In the real GMAT if we are caught somewhere... should we give priority to 'meaning' or 'grammar which seems logical' ??

I ask this as...
many a times on the OG , I have seen that 'parallelism' wins over grammar which seems logical.
But parallelism is grammar. Keep in mind that grammar trumps meaning when it comes to eliminating answers. You won't see answers that have non-logical meaning, but grammar is certainly more important than meaning.

As for this question, the main point of the this sentence is that cheetah is the fastest mammal, and that cheetah can accelerate very fast. "cheetah's body" or any other variation referring to cheetah's body would seem awkward.
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by arora007 » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:18 am
uwhusky wrote:
arora007 wrote:Even I chose E, as D would have changed the meaning....


In the real GMAT if we are caught somewhere... should we give priority to 'meaning' or 'grammar which seems logical' ??

I ask this as...
many a times on the OG , I have seen that 'parallelism' wins over grammar which seems logical.
But parallelism is grammar. Keep in mind that grammar trumps meaning when it comes to eliminating answers. You won't see answers that have non-logical meaning, but grammar is certainly more important than meaning.

As for this question, the main point of the this sentence is that cheetah is the fastest mammal, and that cheetah can accelerate very fast. "cheetah's body" or any other variation referring to cheetah's body would seem awkward.
yeah u are right...

But over here don't u think with

"cheetah's bodies are geared to accelerate "

the author wanted to say something is so special about the cheetah's body that it can accelerate from 1 to 40... ?

aneways...doesn't matter D also can nodded yes...as its concise!
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by uwhusky » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:21 am
If you read the whole entire sentence, do you think the main idea is about cheetah's body or cheetah? I would think if this is more about cheetah's body, there would be more information relating to the body.
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by indiantiger » Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:59 am
D it is
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