Sentence Correction

I have just finished the kaplan 800 S.c, and I have found some of the questions to be dubious in that some of the questions which are basically a rehashed version of the O.G questions fail to adequately supply the correct reasoning for the correct answer. This is because even though Kaplan has tried to maintain the same errors and traps of the original question, they have changed the language, which allows for certain ambiguities that they have overlooked.

Out of the public's interest in the details of and conflicts in other people's lives have grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing "regular" people onto the television screen with increasing frequency.
(A) other people's lives have grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing
(B) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing
(C) another person's life has grown a booming market for a "reality" television show that is bringing
(D) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that is bringing
(E) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that bring

Answer is D.


The official version is
Out of America's fascination with all things antique have grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that are bringing back the chaise lounge, the overstuffed sofa, and the claw-footed bathtub.

(A) things antique have grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that are bringing
(B) things antique has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that is bringing
(C) things that are antiques has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that bring
(D) antique things have grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that are bringing
(E) antique things has grown a market for bygone styles of furniture and fixtures that bring

The answer is B.

if you strip the above two questions to their bare bone structure you will find they are essentially the same. However, in the official version to rule out D we have a wrong verb number "have" which should be "has" so we can conclude B is the answer. If this had not been the case both B and D would have fairly stood out well because then they would only differ in meaning as to what " market or furniture" is bringing the style back.

On the other hand in the Kaplan question they have omitted this error, So B and D are able too effectively compete with each other. moreover in the kaplan version, The context allows that Either market or Television shows can be the cause for
attracting the people that are both valid.

Another Example
While the immune system helps the human body's trying to defend itself from a virus or disease that is
harming it, certain immunodeficiency disorders like AIDS attack the immune system itself and disable its
healing mechanisms.
A. body's trying to defend itself from a virus or disease that is harming it
B. body's tries to defend itself from a virus or disease harming it
C. body to try to defend itself from a virus or disease that harm it
D. body to attempt to try to defend itself from a virus or disease that is harming it
E. body to try to defend itself from a virus or disease that is harming it

Here this very similar the "organism's trying question" in the o.g 12, but in the kaplan question above the correct answer is E. How can this be the correct answer?? Doesn't this have a string of infinitives error. Sure it is the best of the lot nevertheless way off gmat standard.

Finally have a look at this one,

Those who have visited the Grand Canyon have typically seen layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, with different colors that mark the passage of time like the rings in a tree trunk.
(A) seen layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, with different colors that mark
(B) see layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, whose different colors mark
(C) been seeing layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, whose different colors are markers of
(D) been able to see layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, with different colors marking
(E) seen layers of sediment in the gaping canyon, marking by different colors.
Answer above is D.


The official version is this one.

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
answer is D

Now if you see they are both very similar again except, in the official version we can eliminate B because it has lots of errors on the basis of tenses.
In the kaplan version however there is a strong fight between A and B. And the reason they eliminate B is because they say "whose" has two possible antecedents. EXcuse me! "whose" has one possible antecedent, it is a relative pronoun and modifies the noun it immediately touches, unless of course if there is an intervening modifier, as in the Bluegrass monroes question in the blue supplement.

Now my request is that someone please point out the logical explanation behind the kaplan answers or I would think that we cant even trust the reputed prep companies and I have wasted my time solving this Kaplan 800.

P.s: thanks to my amazing memory i could see the correlations, god bless those who couldnt. Btw there are zillions of other errors in the Kaplan 800 in the c.r that I could have pointed out, but unfortunately time is not a luxury i have at the moment[/u]