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A: writing: includingDrawing on her roots in a society that has a strong tradition of story-telling and oral renditions of the past, Indian writer Suniti Namjoshi incorporates many types of literature into her writing: including historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian as well as European sources.
A.writing: including historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian as well as
B.writing: historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian and
C.writing: these include historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian and
D.writing, which includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian as well as
E.writing that includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian and
C: writing: these include
When a colon serves to introduce a list, the list that follows the colon must be COMPLETE.
In contrast, forms of to include serve to introduce a PARTIAL LIST.
Thus, it is contradictory to employ a COLON (which serves to introduce a COMPLETE list) along with a form of to include (which serves to introduce a PARTIAL list).
Eliminate A and C.
D: writing, which includes
E: writing that includes
Here, the implication is that the WRITING includes historical texts.
Not the intended meaning.
Non-underlined portion: Suniti Namjoshi INCORPORATES many types of literature into her writing.
In other words, the author herself INCLUDES these types of literature when she writes.
Eliminate D and E.
The correct answer is B.
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Dear Mitch,
can we also rule out ACDE on grounds of redundancy ?
"incorporates" and "including" means the same hence a,c,d,e are having the redundancy problem.
so i am left with option B .
D and E also have idiom issues -
D.writing, which includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian as well as - correct idiom both X and Y.
E.writing that includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian and- idiom issues here as well ....
can we also rule out ACDE on grounds of redundancy ?
"incorporates" and "including" means the same hence a,c,d,e are having the redundancy problem.
so i am left with option B .
D and E also have idiom issues -
D.writing, which includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian as well as - correct idiom both X and Y.
E.writing that includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian and- idiom issues here as well ....
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Yes, the words are very close in meaning.abhasjha wrote:Dear Mitch,
can we also rule out ACDE on grounds of redundancy ?
"incorporates" and "including" means the same hence a,c,d,e are having the redundancy problem.
so i am left with option B .
to incorporate means to include X as part of Y.
It seems redundant to use both words with regard to the same author and her works.
Yes, another reason to eliminate D and E is a lack parallelism.D and E also have idiom issues -
D.writing, which includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian as well as - correct idiom both X and Y.
E.writing that includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian and- idiom issues here as well ....
D: both FROM...as well as EUROPEAN
E: both FROM...and EUROPEAN
In each case, from (preposition) and European (adjective) are not parallel forms.
Another error in C: these include
Here, these lacks a clear antecedent.
Generally, these + VERB is not a viable construction on the GMAT.
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