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by GmatKiss » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:26 am
The space program's missions to Mars have confirmed that the soil composition on that planet is similar to that on our planet.

a. to that on our planet

b. to our planet

c. with the soil on our planet

d. to this composition on our planet

e. to our planet's soils composition

IMO: E

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by sumitpune » Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:57 am
IMO A
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by aspirant2011 » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:24 am
GmatKiss wrote:The space program's missions to Mars have confirmed that the soil composition on that planet is similar to that on our planet.

a. to that on our planet

b. to our planet

c. with the soil on our planet

d. to this composition on our planet

e. to our planet's soil's composition

IMO: E
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by 786 » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:49 pm
I think the confusion is between A and E .

A. everything seems to be okay.
E.to our planet's soils composition
soils composition -> many soils have one composition and this doesn't make sense.

it should have been soils compositions . However , in tat case too E would have been wrong .
you cannot compare singular composition with plural compositions.
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by saketk » Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:11 am
GmatKiss wrote:The space program's missions to Mars have confirmed that the soil composition on that planet is similar to that on our planet.

a. to that on our planet

b. to our planet

c. with the soil on our planet

d. to this composition on our planet

e. to our planet's soils composition

IMO: E

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I feel the correct answer should be option A

I am assuming you were able to eliminate other options except for option A and E.

'soils' in E refers to many soil types whereas we are talking about the soil on Mars. I also feel that this choice is wordy. No other solid reason to eliminate option E.
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by sungoal » Mon Oct 10, 2011 6:53 pm
saketk wrote:
GmatKiss wrote:The space program's missions to Mars have confirmed that the soil composition on that planet is similar to that on our planet.

a. to that on our planet

b. to our planet

c. with the soil on our planet

d. to this composition on our planet

e. to our planet's soils composition

IMO: E

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I feel the correct answer should be option A

I am assuming you were able to eliminate other options except for option A and E.

'soils' in E refers to many soil types whereas we are talking about the soil on Mars. I also feel that this choice is wordy. No other solid reason to eliminate option E.
Option E has a modification error. Possessives always act as adjective modifiers, so they modify nouns.

In option E we have two adjectives placed back to back, planet's soils' .

So we have a sentence structure Adj Adj Noun, here noun is the composition.

Now if we consider planet's to modify the noun soil, then it is illogical as we are not comparing planet's composition but soils' composition.

So the other option for adjective planet's is to modify adjective soils'. But Adjective can not modify another adjective. So wrong.

So option E is wrong.
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by anniananth » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:56 pm
Option A is correct
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