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by logitech » Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:09 pm
In recent ears cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

A)in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
B)in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C)partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics.
D)partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers.
E)partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers.
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Re: Re-Opened: cattle breeders

by piyush_nitt » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:26 pm
logitech wrote:In recent ears cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

A)in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
B)in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C)partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics.
D)partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers.
E)partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers.
IMO D

In recent ears cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.
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by casfguy » Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:35 pm
we need a clause starting with partly

A and B are out due to parallel
C and E are not a clause;

Answer: D
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by logitech » Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:01 pm
Answer is NOT D; moreover D is passive.
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by pandeyvineet24 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:20 pm
But passive is not always wrong, even i thought D was the best choice.
Any other reason for eliminating D.
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by logitech » Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:24 pm
pandeyvineet24 wrote:But passive is not always wrong,
True. But there is a better option and compared with D, it is not passive.
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by reachac » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:02 pm
I think E.

D is passive. Moreover the steers aren't acquiring the characteristics on their own, as is suggested by D. Instead crossbreeding(initiated by breeder) is responsible for this acquisition.

But but I am not a very big fan of E eider, E breaks paralleism "Partly to" and "partly because"....But still E is a best choice when compared with the rest[That's what I feel , you may disagree though] :)
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by Bidisha800 » Thu Jan 15, 2009 8:09 pm
Clear (E)
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by pbanavara » Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:16 pm
I guess it's completely wrong .. but I'll go with C just because the other option E .. says "partly to acquire ... " - I have never experienced this construction of a sentence before .. using 'to acquire' as a verb.
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by logitech » Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:03 pm
Well the the OA is E
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by raunekk » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:28 am
E for sure

A)in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
B)in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C)partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics.
D)partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers.
E)partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers.
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