Feeding and Nesting

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Feeding and Nesting

by hariharakarthi » Mon Aug 10, 2009 5:18 am
Ornithologists find it difficult to study the Amazonian Biffa, a species native to the Amazon watershed, mainly on account of its feeding and nesting at great heights—often 200 to 300 feet above the forest floor.

A. on account of its feeding and nesting

B. on account of their feeding and nesting

C. because it feeds and nests

D. because they feed and nest

E. because of their feeding and nesting

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Re: Feeding and Nesting

by madhur_ahuja » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:22 am
C -- species should be singular.
hariharakarthi wrote:Ornithologists find it difficult to study the Amazonian Biffa, a species native to the Amazon watershed, mainly on account of its feeding and nesting at great heights—often 200 to 300 feet above the forest floor.

A. on account of its feeding and nesting

B. on account of their feeding and nesting

C. because it feeds and nests

D. because they feed and nest

E. because of their feeding and nesting

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by arorag » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:00 am
Mail down to A/C then because is better than on account so C

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Re: Feeding and Nesting

by shahdevine » Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:16 am
hariharakarthi wrote:Ornithologists find it difficult to study the Amazonian Biffa, a species native to the Amazon watershed, mainly on account of its feeding and nesting at great heights—often 200 to 300 feet above the forest floor.

A. on account of its feeding and nesting

B. on account of their feeding and nesting

C. because it feeds and nests

D. because they feed and nest

E. because of their feeding and nesting
"on account of" is weak, unidiomatic. eliminate a/b. D has "they" which has unspecified reference pronoun and E also has unspecified reference pronoun. C

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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:44 pm
I am down to A and C...but can't decide to choose one over the other for grammtical reason...for concision reason....C looks better....

is there a grammatical reason to choose one over the other ?