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Hailed as a key discovery....

by himu » Tue Dec 11, 2012 8:59 pm
Hailed as a key discovery in the science of evolution, the fossils of a large scaly creature resembling both a fish and a land-animal provide evidence of a possible link in the evolutionary chain from water-based to land-based organisms.


the fossils of a large scaly creature resembling both a fish and a land-animal provide evidence of

a large scaly creature resembling both a fish and a land-animal provides fossils that are evidence

a large scaly creature, whose fossils resemble both a fish and a land-animal, provides evidence of

the fossils of a large scaly creature, which resembles both a fish and a land-animal, provides evidence of

the fossils of a large scaly creature resemble both a fish and a land-animal and provide evidence of
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by theachiever » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:27 pm
I would choose "A"
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by Kasia@EconomistGMAT » Wed Dec 12, 2012 3:03 am
A - correct
B - illogical, it is not the animal that PROVIDES fossils
C, E - incorrect, it is the animal that resembles both a fish and a land-animal and not its fossils
D - incorrect grammatically, the plural subject "fossils" is followed by the singular verb form RESEMBLES
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