Sentence Correction

With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has

sentence looking little complicated.
I will prefer D [rest have modifier subject gap]

Isn't population singular ?
If that's the case then A,D is out .
Whats OA, I am leaning to-wards B

amitabhprasad wrote:Isn't population singular ?

Yes it is but
deer population that wildlife officials estimate to has...
does not make sense

"to have" here is not has/have's have

see this example, you will get an idea

He wants to have a big Car.

Hope it clarifies your doubt.

If that's the case then A,D is out .
Whats OA, I am leaning to-wards B

ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has

I think this is a case of modifier type of problem and only one sentence puts the modifier correctly i.e. Choice C

In all the sentences, the first part before comma is talking about deer, so the part after comma has to start with Deer. Only one sentence does that.

IMO, C. The biggest hint in this sentence is "no natural predators".. this applies to only deers. It cannot apply to New Jersey or anything else.

ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has

The adverbial modifier is correctly used only in (C)

dumb.doofus wrote:The biggest hint in this sentence is "no natural predators".. this applies to only deers. It cannot apply to New Jersey or anything else.

Why can't "no natural predators" refer to NJ? New Jersey can have no natural predators. Right?

It has to be D, as the first sentence cannot refer to deer but to New Jersey!

New Jersey doesn't have natural predators ? NO !

(C) is correct

Only B and C maintain parallelism -

With no natural predators and with expanses..

You can eliminate all other choices

Kindly post the OA .....

ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has

OA is C.

I believe 'natural predators' can modify New Jersey as well.
e.g: Without serial killers and murderers since 1997, the city of Lyons has a population that has been increasing by 5 percent every year.

I think the problem with D is poor parallelism and use of 'have' instead of 'has'.
We are picking the less worser here.

bcoz population is singular like army, administration should it be singular ..??

vscid wrote:

ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has

OA is C.

I believe 'natural predators' can modify New Jersey as well.
e.g: Without serial killers and murderers since 1997, the city of Lyons has a population that has been increasing by 5 percent every year.

I think the problem with D is poor parallelism and use of 'have' instead of 'has'.
We are picking the less worser here.

No offense, but how can a state have "natural predator" ? NJ is the pray of some natural predator ?

Bidisha800 wrote:

vscid wrote:

ska7945 wrote:With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have grown to exceed 175,000.

(A)With no natural predators and expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that allow no hunting, wildlife officials estimate the New Jersey deer population to have

(B)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods that do not allow hunting, wildlife officials' estimate of the deer population in New Jersey has

(C)With no natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, the deer population in New Jersey, wildlife officials estimate, has

(D)Without natural predators and no hunting allowed in expanses of green suburban neighborhoods, New Jersey has a deer population that wildlife officials estimate to have

(E)Without natural predators and with expanses of green suburban neighborhoods where there is no hunting, wildlife officials in New Jersey estimate a deer population that has

OA is C.

I believe 'natural predators' can modify New Jersey as well.
e.g: Without serial killers and murderers since 1997, the city of Lyons has a population that has been increasing by 5 percent every year.

I think the problem with D is poor parallelism and use of 'have' instead of 'has'.
We are picking the less worser here.

No offense, but how can a state have "natural predator" ? NJ is the pray of some natural predator ?

Why the state can not have predators? NJ as a place ,why NJ can not be subject of the sentence to own predators?
thanks