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by kartik1979 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:45 am
Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals that would feed the tribe and that, contrary to textbook
histories, women hunting alone were not uncommon.
(A) Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals that would feed
(B) Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men had collaborated in pursuit of
game animals which would feed
(C) According to extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals that would feed
(D) Extant archeological evidence indicates that each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals with which they fed
(E) Extant archeological evidence indicates each hunting
season women and men had collaborated in pursuit of
game animals for feeding

Pls help with what would be right ans for said queation with reason

i will post right ans later
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by Sher1 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:17 pm
C because others have errors
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by gmat740 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:08 pm
(D) Extant archeological evidence indicates that each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals with which they fed
Indicates:that means give signals however in the question it clearly says out(Based on)

So D and E out
(B) Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men had collaborated in pursuit of
game animals which would feed
Only simple past is suffice,no need for past perfect

Now we are left with A and C(difficult choice! )


I will go with A because I feel that According to extant archeological evidence is little different than Based on extant archeological evidence although even I am not able to justify this, may be I am wrong

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by orel » Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:21 pm
I will go with C because "according to.." sounds better than "based on.." in the above sentence. Although, I may be deadly wrong..
Does anyone know the grammatical difference between BASED ON and ACCORDING TO??
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by TedCornell » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:18 pm
kartik1979 wrote:Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game animals that would feed the tribe and that, contrary to textbook histories, women hunting alone were not uncommon.

(A) Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals that would feed

(B) Based on extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men had collaborated in pursuit of
game animals which would feed

(C) According to extant archeological evidence, each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals that would feed

(D) Extant archeological evidence indicates that each hunting
season women and men collaborated in pursuit of game
animals with which they fed

(E) Extant archeological evidence indicates each hunting
season women and men had collaborated in pursuit of
game animals for feeding
kartik please, please mark the underlined portion in your original post.

First, note that there is a list that ends with "and that,..., women hunting alone were not uncommon". The first item in the list must correspond with this, so the correct answer must follow the following structure:

"...that X, and that women hunting were not uncommon"

(A) Modifier Error.
"Based on evidence" cannot be followed by "each hunting season" because this creates a dangling modifier error. "each hunting season" is not "based on evidence". A correct sentence might say something like "Based on evidence, the new scientific theory claims..."

Parallelism Error.
A is also incorrect because it doesn't provide a good match to start the list. It says "they collaborated in pursuit of animals that would feed the tribe and that women hunting were not uncommon." Eliminate A

(B) Modifier error (see A)

Parallelism error.
The first part of the list doesn't match the ending. B says "they had collaborated in pursuit of game animals which would feed the tribe and that women hunting were not uncommon"

Verb tense error.
B uses the past perfect "they had collaborated". This is incorrect and incompatible with "each hunting season". The past perfect is only appropriate to express a past action which precedes another past action ie: "They had collaborated regularly before the revolution changed everything" Both actions are past, but "to collaborate" happens before "to change", so the past perfect "had collaborated" is used. Eliminate B

(C) Parallelism error
The first part of the list doesn't match the ending. C says "they collaborated in pursuit of game animals that would feed the tribe and that women hunting were not uncommon." Eliminate C

(D) is correct.

(E) The missing "that" between "indicates" and "each" changes the meaning.

Verb tense eror.
E uses the past perfect "they had collaborated" and commits the same error as B does.

Parallelism error
E doesn't offer any clear match to start the list that ends with "and that women hunting were not uncommon." Eliminate E



D is correct as it offers a parallel match to the end of the sentence. Let's remove the junk; you will see that the intent of the sentence is actually to list 2 things that the evidence indicates:
(a) each season women and men collaborated
(b) women hunting alone were not uncommon

"Evidence indicates that each season they collaborated in pursuit of animals and [indicates] that women hunting were not uncommon."

I think D is correct

(I study with OG and GMATFix flashcards)
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by gmat740 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 8:24 pm
can we have the OA?
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by rs2010 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:02 pm
How hard is it to underline? :evil:

I would go with Ted here.

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by kartik1979 » Sat Mar 28, 2009 9:03 pm
Right Answer D

I choose C over D as i thought c was better

i thought that "which"
has to be preceded by a comma which was absent in D hence ignored it as right choice

Explaination given for Ans was

The modi.er .based on extant archeological evidence. is incorrect: .each
hunting season.is not based on evidence. Perhaps research regarding the hunt-
ing is .based on archeological evidence..Eliminate (A) and (B). (C) has a more
accurate modi.er, while (D) and (E) have no modi.ers at all.
(C) is incorrect: To see why, focus on the word .that...in pursuit of game
animals that would feed the tribe and that, . . . , women hunting alone. . ..In
this choice, .that. refers to the pursuit of game animals. .Women hunting
alone.does not. The choice, then, creates a list that is structured around the
word .that,.but that makes no sense.
(D) is better. The evidence .indicates that.women and men collaborated,
and that women hunting alone were not uncommon. That.s a well-structured
list, and both of the phrases following the appearances of the word .that.refer
to what the evidence indicates.
(E) has a similar opening to (D), but is missing .that. following the word
.indicates...Indicates,. like .suggests,. .implies,.or .points out,. should be
followed with .that.in order to be idiomatic. Choice (D), then, is correct.
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