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by ankur.agrawal » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:21 am
The coloration of insects can serve as camouflage, as in the case of green insects that spend their lives in or near foliage, or to warn predators, as in the case of insects colored in yellow and black, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or to warn predators, as in the case of insects colored in yellow and black, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or for warning predators, as in the case of insects that have yellow and black coloring, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or as a warning to predators, as in the case of insects bearing a combination of yellow and black, which often signals that they are poisonous.


or as a predator's warning, as in the case of insects that are colored yellow and black, which often signals that they are poisonous.


or to warn predators, as in the case of yellow-and-black insects, which often signals that they are poisonous.
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:26 am
IMO C.

This question basically tests parallelism which I think is properly used in option C.

OA Please. :)
ankur.agrawal wrote:The coloration of insects can serve as camouflage, as in the case of green insects that spend their lives in or near foliage, or to warn predators, as in the case of insects colored in yellow and black, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or to warn predators, as in the case of insects colored in yellow and black, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or for warning predators, as in the case of insects that have yellow and black coloring, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or as a warning to predators, as in the case of insects bearing a combination of yellow and black, which often signals that they are poisonous.


or as a predator's warning, as in the case of insects that are colored yellow and black, which often signals that they are poisonous.


or to warn predators, as in the case of yellow-and-black insects, which often signals that they are poisonous.
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by ankur.agrawal » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:30 am
IMO C.

This question basically tests parallelism which I think is properly used in option C.

OA Please. :)
OA C

I agree on parallelism issue. My only concern is the use of "which " here. Which here is used wrongly as it cannot only refer to black. I hope u get my confusion.
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:37 am
I think 'which' here refers to word 'Combination' instead of color black.
ankur.agrawal wrote:
IMO C.

This question basically tests parallelism which I think is properly used in option C.

OA Please. :)
OA C

I agree on parallelism issue. My only concern is the use of "which " here. Which here is used wrongly as it cannot only refer to black. I hope u get my confusion.
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by AIM GMAT » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:38 am
or to warn predators, as in the case of insects colored in yellow and black, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or for warning predators, as in the case of insects that have yellow and black coloring, which often signals that it is poisonous.


or as a warning to predators, as in the case of insects bearing a combination of yellow and black, which often signals that they are poisonous.


or as a predator's warning, as in the case of insects that are colored yellow and black, which often signals that they are poisonous.


or to warn predators, as in the case of yellow-and-black insects, which often signals that they are poisonous.

IMO C
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by gig92 » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:55 am
IMO: C

The "which" refers to the noun phrase "a combinatio of yellow and black" which itself "modifies" (within an adjective phrase - bearing a combination of yellow and black) the insect.
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by atulmangal » Tue Apr 05, 2011 12:55 am
@ Ankur and Other guys

For the people who don't know...surprise

Please don't think that 'which' can refer to only the nearest noun... this rule is not at all true as per GMAT......see the below explanation

Example:-

The High Court's rulings in the cases involving assisted suicides among college-going teens from single-parent families, which were overturned by the Supreme Court last month, have been re-instituted by a special interventionist order by the President.

Here WHICH clearly refers to the RULINGS as that is the only eligible noun for the VERB 'WERE overturned'.

All you have to be cautious about is that there is no VERB between WHICH and its ANTECEDENT ('rulings' in this case)...

rulings (n) in the cases (n) involving (adj) assisted (adj) suicides (n) among college-going (adj) teens (n) from single-parent (adj) families (n), which

So in this case, WHICH clearly refers to RULINGS.

Hope this post really help to the people who don't know this fact.
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by gig92 » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:03 am
atulmangal wrote:@ Ankur and other guys

For the people who don't know...surprise

"Please don't think that 'which' can refer to only the nearest noun... this rule is not at all true as per GMAT..." See below explanation

Example:-

The High Court's rulings in the cases involving assisted suicides among college-going teens from single-parent families, which were overturned by the Supreme Court last month, have been re-instituted by a special interventionist order by the President.

Here WHICH clearly refers to the RULINGS as that is the only eligible noun for the VERB 'WERE
overturned'.

All you have to be cautious about is that there is no VERB between WHICH and its ANTECEDENT
('rulings' in this case)...

rulings (n) in the cases (n) involving (adj) assisted (adj) suicides (n) among college-going (adj) teens (n) from single-parent (adj) families (n), which

So in this case, WHICH clearly refers to RULINGS.

I hope some of you will find this post useful

One has to understand that in the sentence:


The High Court's rulings in the cases involving assisted suicides among college-going teens from single-parent families, which were overturned by the Supreme Court last month, have been re-instituted by a special interventionist order by the President.

The hidden part here is a "long" prepositional phrase.
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by ankur.agrawal » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:14 am
Thanks @ atul & Gig.

This was a real eye opener.
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