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by shipra » Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:11 am
23. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
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by atlantic » Sat Jun 21, 2008 5:30 am
C for me. Is the only parallel.

In D 'it' is unnecessary.
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by duke » Sat Jun 21, 2008 6:52 am
shipra wrote:23. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
A is better than C. "spawned" and "extending" both work for tentacles...which is spawned and extends....here by dropping which, we get spawned and extending...so A. Any other thoughts?
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by ildude02 » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:49 am
Answer is A.

In choice C, "extended" seems parallel to "spawned", but it would mean, it only extended in the past when the fungus still lives on in the present.
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by chidcguy » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:56 am
This is called superficial parallelism by MGMAT. Just because we had spawned for the first verb does not mean that we need a second verb in the past tense.

The second verb is actually a result of the first verb and needs a ing form.
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