Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting adolescents, is characterized by cyclical episodes of extreme lethargy, heightened irritability, and appearing confused.
1)appearing confused
2)they appear confused
3)may be confused
4)apparent confusion
5)had been confused
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Kleine-Levin syndrome
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case of typical llelism we need apparent confusion to llel with heightened irritability and other part of listgmatnmein2010 wrote:Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting adolescents, is characterized by cyclical episodes of extreme lethargy, heightened irritability, and appearing confused.
1)appearing confused
2)they appear confused
3)may be confused
4)apparent confusion
5)had been confused
D it is
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We are showing the characteristics of the disease-hence the last part will be a noun.Appearing would denote a verb.gmatnmein2010 wrote:Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting adolescents, is characterized by cyclical episodes of extreme lethargy, heightened irritability, and appearing confused.
1)appearing confused
2)they appear confused
3)may be confused
4)apparent confusion
5)had been confused
We are talking about a characteristic,not a person-hence 1,2,3,5 will be eliminated.
Hence ,answer would be D.
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extreme lethargy , heightened irritability and ____________ apparent confusion. the only one tht fits well .
The only thing tested here is parallelism.
Hence , i'd bet on D
Hope this helps
The only thing tested here is parallelism.
Hence , i'd bet on D
Hope this helps
gmatnmein2010 wrote:Kleine-Levin syndrome, a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting adolescents, is characterized by cyclical episodes of extreme lethargy, heightened irritability, and appearing confused.
1)appearing confused
2)they appear confused
3)may be confused
4)apparent confusion
5)had been confused
