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by schumi_gmat » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:26 am
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)..
(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

I know this question is discussed in this forum. I was able to get the correct answer. But question is the usage of "Evidence that suggests" v/s "evidence to suggest"

Can somebody help me understand?
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by jeevan.Gk » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:08 am
The error is not revolving around evidence to ..
or evidence that..

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).. and its trunk is wrong.. it should be 'and that..' to maintain parallelism
(b) that has suggested the elephant descended from an aquatic animal, its trunk originally evolving ... "Suggested that ..." is the correct subjunctive
(c)suggesting that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal with its trunk originally evolving ... "had ..."verb tense error
(d) to suggest that the elephant had descended from an aquatic animal and its trunk originally evolving "that required after and" it should be
and that its trunk originally
(e) to suggest that the elephant is descended from an aquatic animal and that its trunk originally evolved ... correct
Hence E should be the

what is the OA

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