Sentence Correction

Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang like socks on a clothesline.

(A) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang
(B) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs were hanging
(C) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
(D) seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
(E) seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs have hung

AIM GMAT wrote:Visitors to the park have often looked up into the leafy canopy and saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang like socks on a clothesline.

(A) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs hang
(B) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs were hanging
(C) saw monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
(D) seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, with arms and legs hanging
(E) seen monkeys sleeping on the branches, whose arms and legs have hung

Parallelism
have looked .... have seen
Down to D/E.
E has incorrect relative pronoun usage.Whose incorrectly refers to branches.
So IMO D.

D with me as Well..

on the branches, whose arms and legs - wrongly modifies branches.

Keep it parallel with present perfect...

park have often ....(have)seen monkeys sleeping


Thus D

Hi All,

IMO b.

Query 1:In concluding my answer I am taking the idiom as have often X (looked up)and Y (saw).

I understand that I differ from other two posts in terms of Idiom usage. Can anyone please clarify on the idiom usage?

Query 2:
Doesn't the statement 'with arms and legs hanging' be placed next to Monkeys? since it is modifying monkeys? Considering this only I chose B, which consists of whose, which I feel cam refer to branches or monkeys. Since, Branches cannot have legs and arms hanging, I felt whose should refer to Monkeys only.

bubbliiiiiiii wrote:Hi All,

IMO b.

Query 1:In concluding my answer I am taking the idiom as have often X (looked up)and Y (saw).

I understand that I differ from other two posts in terms of Idiom usage. Can anyone please clarify on the idiom usage?

Query 2:
Doesn't the statement 'with arms and legs hanging' be placed next to Monkeys? since it is modifying monkeys? Considering this only I chose B, which consists of whose, which I feel cam refer to branches or monkeys. Since, Branches cannot have legs and arms hanging, I felt whose should refer to Monkeys only.

It's not about the idiom here. This question test about ||ism. there should be past participle instead of "saw" so seen is better, using this you can eliminate A,B,C

Can someone clarify Query 2.

The comma differentiates branches with arms and legs hanging from branches, with arms and legs hanging. When you want the with phrase to refer unambiguously to the noun immediately before, you don't use the comma.

Jim@Grockit wrote:The comma differentiates branches with arms and legs hanging from branches, with arms and legs hanging. When you want the with phrase to refer unambiguously to the noun immediately before, you don't use the comma.

Thanks Jim. That is really helpful!