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by perfectstranger » Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:04 pm
Architects and stonemasons, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport.


(A) huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya without benefit of the wheel or animal transport
(B) without the benefits of animal transport or the wheel, huge palace and temple clusters were built by the Maya
(C) the Maya built huge palace and temple clusters without the benefit of animal transport or the wheel
(D) there were built, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, huge palace and temple clusters by the Maya
(E) were the Maya who, without the benefit of the wheel or animal transport, built huge palace and temple clusters


Please explain your answer in a detailed way.
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by reachac » Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:39 pm
IMO C
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by augusto » Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:47 pm
perfectstranger,

the first phrase Architects and stonemasons is a modifying phrase and you need to put the noun that it modifies after the ´,´

So, for example in the first answer (which is wrong) Architects and stonemasons would modify huge palace and temple clusters and palaces and temples cannot be architects of stonemansons. Only a person or group of persons (in this case the Maya) can be architects and stonemansons.


I don´t want to be mean, but this is a very easy SC question. I suggest you to read a book about Verbal, most of them (if not all) explain this type of SC errors.
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by NSNguyen » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:22 am
modifier place,
C is the best
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by missionmba » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:17 pm
its C
rest -> Misplaced modifier Error
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by erjamit » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:32 am
I agree that "Architects and stonemasons" is clearly a case of misplaced modifier, but does it make sense...

what does "the Maya" mean here. Whom does "the Maya" refer to, it can't refer to "Architects and stonemasons" since it doesn't sound grt.

Architects and stonemasons, the Maya.....

I agree this is the best choice...but what can be the correct choice.

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by NSNguyen » Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:13 am
Rest of choice cannot be corrected
C is the right one,
clues here is misplace modifier error
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by GmatKiss » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:20 pm
IMO:C
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by Proleefeek111 » Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:31 pm
augusto wrote: I don�t want to be mean, but this is a very easy SC question. I suggest you to read a book about Verbal, most of them (if not all) explain this type of SC errors.

Dear Sir,

What is easy for you might not be for a lot of GMAT aspirants. This is a free forum where folks can post their doubts and concerns, basic and otherwise. Kindly be accomodating.
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