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Sentence Corection

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by [email protected] » Thu May 30, 2013 9:40 am
The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at
Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for
centrally administered complex societies in northern
regions of the Middle East that were arising
simultaneously with but
independently of the more
celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in
what is now southern Iraq.
(A) that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell
Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence
for centrally administered complex societies in
northern regions of the Middle East that were
arising simultaneously with but
(B) that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell
Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that
centrally administered complex societies in
northern regions of the Middle East were arising
simultaneously with but also
(C) having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell
Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence
that centrally administered complex societies in
northern regions of the Middle East were arising
simultaneously but
(D) cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria,
yields strong evidence of centrally administered
complex societies in northern regions of the
Middle East arising simultaneously but also
(E) cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria,
have yielded strong evidence that centrally
administered complex societies in northern
regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously
with but
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by vivekchandrams » Thu May 30, 2013 11:16 am
OA E

One main reason to get to ans - all other options have 'arising' in them, and in B and D the usage of 'yields' is wrong. It doesn't go with the plural subject 'trenches'
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by rajvedi » Thu May 30, 2013 12:42 pm
I would also go with E. another reasoning could be "evidence that..." sounds better than other options.
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by apoorva.rattan » Thu May 30, 2013 4:08 pm
Knock out B and D due Noun-Verb Number mismatch.
The first trenches…..yields strong evidence

Unnecessarily complex tense usage in C : …having been cut into…

A has incorrect idiomatic construction in this part ……have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered….

E corrects all errors above.

Please share if you have differing thoughts.
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by Gowri@CrackVerbal » Thu May 30, 2013 6:50 pm
In any SC quetion, begin with the simplest and most glaring errors. In most cases, as in this one, there would be subject-verb mismatches.

The 'trenches' yielded some evidence - 'trenches' is plural and requires 'yield', not 'yields'. This helps us eliminate options B and D.

In option C, 'trenches having been cut' is incorrect. C is also missing a 'with' after 'simultaneously'. The correct usage is 'simultaneously with, but independent of X'.

In option A, the intended meaning does not come out clearly. Option A implies that the trenches provided evidence for the complex societies themselves. This is not the intended meaning. The trenches have, in fact, provided evidence that something, an event X (complex societies in northern regions of the ME arose simultaneously with the more celebrated cities of southern Mesopotamia), happened.

Thus, E is the right answer.
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