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by karthikpandian19 » Wed May 09, 2012 11:53 pm
After two years of research, the professor came up with the rather << incredible theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution is cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day. >>

(A) incredible theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution is cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day.

(B) incredulous theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution is cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day.

(C) incredible theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution was cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day.

(D) incredible theory about the Darwinian Theory of evolution being cyclical, thereby implying that humans will become apes one day.

(E) incredulous theory of the Darwinian Theory of evolution being cyclical, which implies that humans will one day again become apes.
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by jordan23 » Thu May 10, 2012 12:27 am
IMO A
karthikpandian19 wrote:After two years of research, the professor came up with the rather << incredible theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution is cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day. >>

(A) incredible theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution is cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day.

(B) incredulous theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution is cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day.

(C) incredible theory that the Darwinian Theory of evolution was cyclical, implying that humans will again become apes one day.

(D) incredible theory about the Darwinian Theory of evolution being cyclical, thereby implying that humans will become apes one day.

(E) incredulous theory of the Darwinian Theory of evolution being cyclical, which implies that humans will one day again become apes.

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by karthikpandian19 » Thu May 10, 2012 5:05 pm
OA is A,

As incredulous changes the meaning it is ignored

and SV agreement is applied finally to get the correct answer

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