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by II » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:51 pm
See attached question from GMATPrep.

I am going through each of the answer choices trying to highlight what is wrong or right (for the correct choice) with the answer choices:

(A) Issue with original sentence:
• Idiom: “associated both” (incorrect) Vs “associated with” (correct)
• Distorts meaning of original sentence: “bear traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the …”
• “has been found” – what has been found ? this looks as if it is referring to Homo Sapiens … in which case it should be “have been found”.

(B)
• Idiom: associated with should be used
• “have been found” – whats been found ? the skull. So this should be “has been found”.

(C)
• Correct use of idiom “associated with”
• “has been found” correctly refers to the “million year old skull”.

(D)
this sounds wrong to my ear ... but what grammatical rule is being broken here ?

(E)
• “have been found” should be “has been found”
dont understand what is wrong with "which indicates" ... why is "indicating" better than "which indicates" ? Is this a parallelism issue ---> bearing, indicating ?

Thanks for your input.
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by Tryingmybest » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:03 pm
IMO C

Correct use of idiom. Has been correctly refers to skull .
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by II » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:18 pm
Yes. C is the correct answer ... please see my comments highlighted in bold. I want to fully understand why the rest of the answer choices were wrong.

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by Tryingmybest » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:30 pm
Choice D doesnt sound right to me. Unable to spot an error.It is awkward.

But E is clearly wrong . Which refers to a place instead of Skull.

(which or that refers to the Previous word)
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by II » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:39 pm
(D)
this sounds wrong to my ear ... but what grammatical rule is being broken here ?

(E)
• “have been found” should be “has been found”

dont understand what is wrong with "which indicates" ... why is "indicating" better than "which indicates" ? Is this a parallelism issue ---> bearing, indicating ?
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by niraj_a » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:45 am
in D, the second use of and is wrong and kinda changes the meaning.

in E, which incorrectly refers to Eritrea.
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by iamcste » Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:03 am
II wrote:(D)
this sounds wrong to my ear ... but what grammatical rule is being broken here ?

Your ears are right!

And is used to join 2 independent clauses

"found in the Afar region of XXX " is no way an independent clause. We do not have a subject. e,g what is found cant be answered.

Inclusion of And makes earlier part of sentence incomplete...You can see that there is no verb. "XXX bearing traits associated with YYY"


In this case, And distributes an independent clauses into 2 parts.


(E)
• “have been found” should be “has been found”

dont understand what is wrong with "which indicates" ... why is "indicating" better than "which indicates" ? Is this a parallelism issue ---> bearing, indicating ?


which , as a noun modifer, incorrectly modifies "Eritria"

This changes the meaning, Did "Eritria" indicate anything
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by II » Tue Nov 25, 2008 12:23 pm
iamcste ... you are King ! :-) Great explanations !
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by NSNguyen » Sat Nov 29, 2008 7:25 pm
IMO:E
Have been modify for both Homo ...homo, not for the skull
Please share your idea and your reasoning :D
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