42) Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
(A) that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal, and its trunk originally evolved
(B) that has suggested the elephant descended from an aquatic animal, its trunk originally evolving
(C) suggesting that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal with its trunk originally evolving
(D) to suggest that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal and its trunk originally evolving
(E) to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved
OA E
I am not convinced by the OA
I feel " is descended from" is wrong
please shed some light
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I too agree with you. 'is descended' is really difficult to digest. but 'originally evolving' is also difficult to agree with. however it appears to me choice e has parallel:
Australian embryologists have found evidence to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel
pl comment....
Australian embryologists have found evidence to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel
pl comment....
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When an 'and' is present, that is a tip-off to start searching for parallelism. Because of this, we can eliminate choices A, D (we need the word 'that'). Now, choice B can be eliminated since the answer suggests that the aquatic animal's trunk originally evolved... this leaves us with choices C and E. We need to choose 'is descended', since the elephant is currently descended from the aquatic animal... it's not like it was descended some time back and is no longer descended from that animal. So, the answer is E.
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I also got this question wrong because I did not know that "evidence to do sth" is a correct idiom. I eliminated D and E in the first place. In fact, "evidence to suggest" is quite common in English. Silly me! :roll:
Regarding gmat740's opinion, I looked up into Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and found out that
"to descend from sth" = "to develop from sth"
"to be descended from sth" = "to be related to sth"
From this information, both "is descended" and "descended" can be correct in this context.
Regarding gmat740's opinion, I looked up into Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary and found out that
"to descend from sth" = "to develop from sth"
"to be descended from sth" = "to be related to sth"
From this information, both "is descended" and "descended" can be correct in this context.
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"is descended from" is an idiomatic expression. it means "descended" in the sense of EVOLUTIONARY ANCESTRY.
this is the only sense in which you can use this idiom.
"had descended" / "has descended" (i.e., normal past perfect / present perfect) is incorrect in this sense, as it implies literal downward motion.
hope that helps
this is the only sense in which you can use this idiom.
"had descended" / "has descended" (i.e., normal past perfect / present perfect) is incorrect in this sense, as it implies literal downward motion.
hope that helps
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Hi,
I am convinced with original ans choice E.
Is the ans choice below is also correct,
that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
But it is not mentioned in the set of the ans choices.
But my qn is,
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that x and that y.
Is it correct?
Please explain in detail.
I am convinced with original ans choice E.
Is the ans choice below is also correct,
that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
But it is not mentioned in the set of the ans choices.
But my qn is,
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that x and that y.
Is it correct?
Please explain in detail.
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this would be fine.hariharakarthi wrote:But my qn is,
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that x and that y.
Is it correct?
it would be considered awkward because there are two "that"s so close together. presumably, this is why the correct answer here employs the infinitive instead.
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Why E is superior to A????lunarpower wrote:this would be fine.hariharakarthi wrote:Buhttps://www.beatthegmat.com/posting.php?mode=quote&p=190171t my qn is,
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that x and that y.
Is it correct?
it would be considered awkward because there are two "that"s so close together. presumably, this is why the correct answer here employs the infinitive instead.
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that suggest seems to be better than ' to suggest' , So will go with A..
Please help me in understanding why E is superior to A. i am not convinced
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A and E are close but I don't find even a single reason to prefer E to A whereas A seems ok because it uses "that...."
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(a) is actually INCORRECT, not just awkward, because of the way parallelism is indicated by the comma.arorag wrote:Why E is superior to A????
if you have a comma before a coordinating conjunction - as in "X, and Y" - then X and Y MUST be parallel clauses.
with this in mind, let's turn to (a):
Australian embryologists have found evidence that suggests that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal,
and
its trunk originally evolved as a kind of snorkel.
in other words, the embryologists have found evidence regarding the elephant's ancestry - but NOT about the trunk (this is just stated as a standalone fact).
if you remove the comma, then (a) becomes a viable answer.
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Hi Ron,
I understand from this question is that it is related to DICTION concept of OG.
Here embroyologists wants to suggest with the help of evidences, and they wanted to say two things that need to be in parallel grammatical structures.
The above construction is fulfilled by E only. My concept is that the given options may be grammatically correct but we should choose the option which the test-maker wanted to say without changing the meaning of given question.
Please comment if I am wrong somewhere.
I understand from this question is that it is related to DICTION concept of OG.
Here embroyologists wants to suggest with the help of evidences, and they wanted to say two things that need to be in parallel grammatical structures.
The above construction is fulfilled by E only. My concept is that the given options may be grammatically correct but we should choose the option which the test-maker wanted to say without changing the meaning of given question.
Please comment if I am wrong somewhere.
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this is correct. specifically, the grammar of (a) has no real problems - but, as noted in my post above, it just doesn't say what it's supposed to say.kamalsinghy wrote:Hi Ron,
I understand from this question is that it is related to DICTION concept of OG.
Here embroyologists wants to suggest with the help of evidences, and they wanted to say two things that need to be in parallel grammatical structures.
The above construction is fulfilled by E only. My concept is that the given options may be grammatically correct but we should choose the option which the test-maker wanted to say without changing the meaning of given question.
Please comment if I am wrong somewhere.
yes, context is every bit as important as grammar.
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