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Dinosaur metabolism

by Dean Jones » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:15 am
Dear Friends,

I was having problems in answering the following question.

Some scientists contend that many species of dinosaur had a metabolism more like a
warm-blooded mammal's than a cold-blooded reptile's.
A. that many species of dinosaur had a metabolism more like
B. that the metabolism of many dinosaur species were more like
C. that the metabolisms of many species of dinosaurs were more like those of
D. there were many species of dinosaurs that had metabolisms more like those of
E. there were many dinosaur species that had a metabolism more like that of


Please help.

OA after some discussions.

My choice was option C

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by sam2304 » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:51 am
contend that - eliminate D, E
B - metabolism were - wrong
C - more like those of warm blooded mammals (no possessive form) is right but those of is already referring to metabolism, usage of possessive form seems redundant - wrong

IMO D.
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by sk8legend408 » Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:23 am
Contend that is the correct idiom...eliminate D and E.

Species of dinosaur is incorrect...eliminate A.

Metabolism were is incorrect...eliminate B.

You are left with C.

Dean Jones you went with option C...is it the correct answer?
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by rohangupta83 » Sun Dec 18, 2011 12:45 pm
imo A

i am not convinced we need plural "metabolisms". A states "species of dinosaur", i'm guessing this is a typo. C would still be wrong because "more like those of..." will be incorrect: idiom more X than Y.

sentence should say: more like a........ than a.......

or: more like those of a......than those of a.......

A fits the idiom and C does not.
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by GmatVerbal » Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:26 pm
I agree with Rohan.
IMO -A;
B - were /incorrect
C/D/E -- those of (double possessive), lack of parallelism , also idiom contend that..
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by VivianKerr » Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:55 pm
We cannot compare singular to plural, so since we have "a warm-blooded mammal's" we'll need the first part (underlined portion) to be singular as well. Therefore, C and D are out.

In order for the sentence to make sense, we need the word "that" after contend, so E is out.

Comparing A and B, "metabolism" is singular, so we cannot use the plural "were." The answer must be A.
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by GmatKiss » Tue Dec 20, 2011 11:07 am
IMO:C
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by shekhar.kataria » Thu Dec 22, 2011 5:18 am
Hi Vivian

Can we eliminate C,D,E on the basis that it uses those of/ that of incorrectly because it refers to metabolisms and we already have an appossitve "a warm blooded mammal's" which means their metabolism in the sentence already.

I hope everyone can understand what i m trying to make out. Please help.


VivianKerr wrote:We cannot compare singular to plural, so since we have "a warm-blooded mammal's" we'll need the first part (underlined portion) to be singular as well. Therefore, C and D are out.

In order for the sentence to make sense, we need the word "that" after contend, so E is out.

Comparing A and B, "metabolism" is singular, so we cannot use the plural "were." The answer must be A.
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