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by clammiestqasar » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:07 am
In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.
A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid
activity and painstakingly documenting
B) Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and by painstakingly documenting
C) Leakey was a contributor to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activvity and with her painstaking documentation of
D) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of
E) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of

I think D is wrong because her doesnt have an antecedent?
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by papgust » Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:35 am
You're right. The same reason applies to E too.
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by kvcpk » Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:16 am
Is the OA A?

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by hardik.jadeja » Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:47 am
clammiestqasar wrote: I think D is wrong because her doesnt have an antecedent?
I don't think there is anything wrong with D. I would pick D as the answer.

Possessive pronouns can refer to possessive nouns. so "her" can refer to "Leakey's contributions".

Option A and E are not parallel and option C is awkward. Option B makes the 2 elements prepositional phrases. But still, B is wrong because these two prepositional phrases are not parallel with eachother("documenting" is not preceded by "her") and with the item at the beginning of the sentence, "her work".

Observe three-way parallelism in D.

In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of East African cave paintings.

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by hardik.jadeja » Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:05 am

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by brijesh » Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:22 am
clammiestqasar wrote:In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.
A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid
activity and painstakingly documenting
B) Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and by painstakingly documenting
C) Leakey was a contributor to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activvity and with her painstaking documentation of
D) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of
E) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of

I think D is wrong because her doesnt have an antecedent?
I would like to know what is wrong with option-C, and , obviously I don`t find any parallel error...any other reason ..

In D i find the error....Her talking abt the Leakey's contributions (the two possessive pronouns)

Pls. help..

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by hardik.jadeja » Fri Jun 18, 2010 6:27 am
brijesh wrote: I would like to know what is wrong with option-C, and , obviously I don`t find any parallel error...any other reason ..
This post answers why C is incorrect:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mary-leakey- ... tml#159547
brijesh wrote: In D i find the error....Her talking abt the Leakey's contributions (the two possessive pronouns)
This link answers your question in detail:
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/imp ... t1842.html

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by [email protected] » Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:14 pm
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In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.
(A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
(B) Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and by painstakingly documenting
(C) Leakey was a contributor to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and with her painstaking documentation of
(D) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of
(E) Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of

A, B: 'discovery' is not parallel to 'documenting'
E: 'discovering' is not parallel to 'documentation'
C: uses the wrong idiom 'was a contributor with' ... completely wrong.

D is correct.

Another version of the same question:

In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology through her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and through her painstaking documentation of East African cave paintings.
A. Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology through her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and through her painstaking documentation of
B. Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
C. Mary Leakey was a contributor to archaeology by discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and with her painstaking documentation of
D. Mary Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
E. Mary Leakey's contributions to archaeology include her discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of

B, D: 'discovery' is not parallel to 'documenting'
C, E: 'discovering' is not parallel to 'documentation'

A is correct.
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