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jitendra_mulchandani: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 37; Joined: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:43 am; Thanked: 2 times

by jitendra_mulchandani » Tue May 25, 2010 10:05 pm

Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate
society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and
exploiting other wild and domestic resources.

(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and
exploiting

(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood,
and the exploitation of

(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the
exploiting of

(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and
seafood, and exploiting

(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and
shellfish, and they exploited

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by paes » Tue May 25, 2010 10:10 pm

IMO B

such as is required. like is wrong
Only b and d left

D :
--- they and it : ambiguous
-- not parallel
-- not concise

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by paridhi » Tue May 25, 2010 11:06 pm

IMO A: only choice where parallelism is followed.... cultivating, harvesting & exploiting

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by thephoenix » Tue May 25, 2010 11:12 pm

paridhi wrote:IMO A: only choice where parallelism is followed.... cultivating, harvesting & exploiting

A contains a major error of wrong idiom such like
correct idiom is such as
b is correct

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by paridhi » Tue May 25, 2010 11:51 pm

thephoenix wrote:
paridhi wrote:IMO A: only choice where parallelism is followed.... cultivating, harvesting & exploiting
A contains a major error of wrong idiom such like
correct idiom is such as
b is correct

I don't understand. B does not follow the rules of parallelism. Then how is it correct?

Someone please explain.....

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by paes » Wed May 26, 2010 12:03 am

paridhi wrote:
thephoenix wrote:
paridhi wrote:IMO A: only choice where parallelism is followed.... cultivating, harvesting & exploiting
A contains a major error of wrong idiom such like
correct idiom is such as
b is correct
I don't understand. B does not follow the rules of parallelism. Then how is it correct?

Someone please explain.....

b is parallel

the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans
the harvesting of fish and seafood,
the exploitation of

all 3 are parallel.

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by ansumania » Thu May 27, 2010 11:15 pm

IMO D.........

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by dj_vinayak » Fri May 28, 2010 12:17 am

IMO D...parallelism

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by mohit11 » Fri May 28, 2010 2:08 am

jitendra_mulchandani wrote:Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate
society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and
exploiting other wild and domestic resources.

(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and
exploiting

(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood,
and the exploitation of

Based on the x, the Y and the Z.

Also, its important to remember that present participle can be parallel to past participle.

(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the
exploiting of

(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and
seafood, and exploiting

(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and
shellfish, and they exploited

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by kevincanspain » Fri May 28, 2010 3:13 am

jitendra_mulchandani wrote:Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate
society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and
exploiting other wild and domestic resources.

(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and
exploiting

(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood,
and the exploitation of

(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the
exploiting of

(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and
seafood, and exploiting

(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and
shellfish, and they exploited

A C and E are easy to eliminate , since the correct idiom to give examples is 'such as'. Only use like as a preposition when you mean 'similar to'. In written English, do NOT use 'like' to introduce examples

We will let parallel structure help us choose between B and D

B- the cultivation..., the harvesting ... , the exploitation CORRECT
D their cultivation, the harvest, exploiting INCORRECT

D also distorts the meaning by introducing 'and they based'- no such action was implied in the original

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