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by gmat_dec » Mon Mar 01, 2010 2:33 am
Person without any prior knowledge of the circumstances would have walked into the room and seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes torn as if he had been attacked.

A. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes torn
B. saw a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes were torn
C. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, with clothes torn
D. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes were torn
E. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes have torn
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by fibbonnaci » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:21 am
before we move on with the question, we need to check for parallelism.
would have walked and seen have to be parallel.
Have + past participle is the correct form.
1st event- person attacked[ past perfect]
2nd event- clothes torn[past tense]

A. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes torn [ you have a past perfect in the sentence. so we need a simple past for a later event.Eliminated!]

B. saw a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes were torn [parallelism not maintained. Eliminated!]

C. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, with clothes torn [ you need a past tense and not a preposition. Eliminated!]

D. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes were torn [Voila!My answer. Sentence properly maintained.]

E. seen a stabbed man crouching on the sofa, whose clothes have torn[ present perfect is not the required tense. we need past tense. Eliminated!]

Hope this helps!
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by hrishi19884 » Mon Mar 01, 2010 5:34 am
fibbonnaci wrote:before we move on with the question, we need to check for parallelism.
would have walked and seen have to be parallel.
Have + past participle is the correct form.
1st event- person attacked[ past perfect]
2nd event- clothes torn[past tense]
Nice explanation! Especially liked the above part that you said.
Hrishi

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