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by sk8ternite » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:06 pm
According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech,
but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as,
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began
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by pradeepsarathy » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:50 pm
IMO B
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B

by EMAN » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:04 pm
B as well.
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by vikram_k51 » Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:24 am
B seems the best
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by siddharth rastogi » Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:31 pm
MY ANSWER IS A

According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech,
but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as,
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began



According to scholars, the earliest writing

(was probably not a direct rendering of speech,)

but (was more likely to begin as a separate and
distinct symbolic system of communication,)

and (only later merged with spoken language).

OPTION A IS PARALLEL IN CONSTRUCTION AS SHOWN ABOVE, AS THE but/and clauses( shown inside brackets) are parrallel to each other and all refers back to Subject ( the Earliest writting)


Actually I was expecting the Idiom NOT X but Y
but, in neither option X and y are given in parallel form.

EXPERTS PLEASE MAKE ME CORRECT ?
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by pandeyvineet24 » Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:45 pm
Option A is incorrect, because it has inconsistence tense form. Instead of "begin", the sentence needs a "began". :)

B for me.
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by sk8ternite » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:27 pm
OA is B
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by umaa » Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:34 pm
sk8ternite wrote:According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech,
but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as,
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began
IMO B.

NOT...BUT construction. Verbs after NOT and BUT should be parallel.

A is wrong. Because WAS is before NOT in the sentence.
C and D are wrong - AS A is correct. FROM A is wrong
E - NOT a direct rendering ..... BUT it was more likely - Not parallel

OA?
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by rahul.s » Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:27 am
good q. i had some trouble with the explanation provided in the og, but i managed to reach a definite conclusion that B is the right answer.
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by harshavardhanc » Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:52 am
A humble request to all :

In these topics, please copy the question and the answer options CORRECTLY. After copying the question, double-check to make sure that it doesn't have your " touch".

I have not given the OG diagnostic test and hence, didn't know the answer. After reading the question and the options, I could not find "the one".

I was really amazed how people were saying B as the correct answer when it had a comma after as, which does not make any sense.

I then googled this question to find out that the correct option B is :
(B) more than likely began as
it doesn't have a comma in the end.

All the pieces then fell into their places and it then struck me that my fellow forum mates have "mugged-up" the explanation and the credited response.

Please understand the importance of writing correctly in a forum. A lot of time gets wasted when mistakes like the one mentioned above happen.
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by komal » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:13 am
sk8ternite wrote:According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech,
but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

A. was more likely to begin as - Parallelism Error - was...to begin is not parallel to was and merged.
B. more than likely began as, - Correct
C. more than likely beginning from - Awkward
D. it was more than likely begun from - wrong tense
E. it was more likely that it began- Wordy
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by rahul.s » Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:31 am
harshavardhanc wrote:(B) more than likely began as

it doesn't have a comma in the end.
nice catch. i remembered this problem from the og and hence knew the answer. i shud've been more attentive. thanks.
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by agganitk » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:44 pm
MORE THAN LIKELY is subject of "began". Doesn't it look odd? Is MORE THAN LIKELY noun?
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by bupbebeo » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:30 pm
sk8ternite wrote:According to scholars, the earliest writing was probably not a direct rendering of speech,
but was more likely to begin as a separate and distinct symbolic system of communication, and only later merged with spoken language.

A. was more likely to begin as
B. more than likely began as,
C. more than likely beginning from
D. it was more than likely begun from
E. it was more likely that it began
Can anyone help me why A is not correct answer. I see a parallelism here ( was probally.... was more likely... mergered ...) three verb is in past simple tense
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by bizzblar » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:09 am
New here, but googled this problem after I took it and found this thread.

I was also originally going to choose B, but then I got tripped up because it seems like it is changing the meaning of the sentence.

From the original sentence it seemed that writing was more likely to begin as "a separate and distinct symbolic system" than as "a direct rendering of speech". B instead changes the comparison to "likely" instead, i.e. rather than just comparing one hypothesis to another as in the original sentence it seems to be comparing one hypothesis to a probability (likely).

In short, x is more likely than y is not equivalent to x is more than likely.

Am I making sense here?
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