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by Uva@90 » Sun Apr 05, 2015 5:12 am
Hi All,

Could you please help me with the below question,

The ancient Lingalas cultivated such native rainforest vegetation as the Catharantheus roseus,and is now commonly called Madagascar periwinkle in Western India and other parts of South Asia.

A) and is now commonly called
B) what they now commonly call
C) now commonly called
D) a plant that they now commonly call
E) which it is now commonly called

Source: Crack the Verbal

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by GMATGuruNY » Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:17 am
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by Uva@90 » Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:08 pm
GMATGuruNY wrote:I posted an explanation for a very similar SC here:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/the-ancient- ... 58650.html
Thanks Mitch.

I got it now :)

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