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by GmatKiss » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:54 pm
The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
D. was banked with dirt as high as
E. was banked with dirt as high as that of

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by aspirant2011 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:35 am
GmatKiss wrote:The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
D. was banked with dirt as high as
E. was banked with dirt as high as that of

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by 1947 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 12:47 am
GmatKiss wrote:The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
D. was banked with dirt as high as
E. was banked with dirt as high as that of

OA is [spoiler]??[/spoiler]
constructions of sentence is like
The single-family house constructed by the Yana was conical in shape and banked with

this rules out D,E.....out of ABC A is the best.
as BC dont make much sense
please give OA
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by nafiul9090 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 11:32 pm
GmatKiss wrote:The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of as high as that of

A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
D. was banked with dirt as high as
E. was banked with dirt as high as that of

OA is [spoiler]??[/spoiler]
its parallelism. B is out because as high as that of as high to three of four feet is non-sensical per the meaning of the sentence. C is out because THEM has no clear referent. D and E are out because because those are not parallel to the non-underlined portion

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by parul9 » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:24 am
GmatKiss wrote:The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
D. was banked with dirt as high as
E. was banked with dirt as high as that of

OA is [spoiler]??[/spoiler]


D and E are out because they defy parallelism.
In B - as high as that of is incorrect
In C - banked them is wrong.
A is the best choice.
So IMO A.
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by chetansharma » Sun Oct 09, 2011 5:35 am
GmatKiss wrote:The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.

A. banked with dirt to a height of
B. banked with dirt as high as that of
C. banked them with dirt to a height of
D. was banked with dirt as high as
E. was banked with dirt as high as that of

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IMO the answer is A

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Chetan
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by GmatKiss » Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:07 am
OA is A
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