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by bblast » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:36 am
A study has shown that during horseplay, non-human primates, like rhesus monkeys, who have always lacked the morphological structures necessary to display tossing-like motions and have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that they will make spontaneous, rapid and accurate inferences about the potential outcomes of many actions that are outside of both their natural and potential motor repertoires.


(A) have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that

(B) have thus never thrown but nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and

(C) have thus never thrown, that they nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and

(D) thus they have never thrown, but nonetheless they react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and that

(E) thus they have never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and

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by aspirant2011 » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:57 am
bblast wrote:A study has shown that during horseplay, non-human primates, like rhesus monkeys, who have always lacked the morphological structures necessary to display tossing-like motions and have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that they will make spontaneous, rapid and accurate inferences about the potential outcomes of many actions that are outside of both their natural and potential motor repertoires.


(A) have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that

(B) have thus never thrown but nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and ----- but and nonetheless are transition words,therefore, cannot be used together

(C) have thus never thrown, that they nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and ----- comma + that wrong usage

(D) thus they have never thrown, but nonetheless they react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and that ---- by begining with thus they have the sentence doesn't remain logical

(E) thus they have never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and ---- by begining with thus they have the sentence doesn't remain logical

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by GmatKiss » Tue Aug 30, 2011 10:39 am
bblast wrote:A study has shown that during horseplay, non-human primates, like rhesus monkeys, who have always lacked the morphological structures necessary to display tossing-like motions and have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that they will make spontaneous, rapid and accurate inferences about the potential outcomes of many actions that are outside of both their natural and potential motor repertoires.


(A) have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that

(B) have thus never thrown but nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and

(C) have thus never thrown, that they nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and

(D) thus they have never thrown, but nonetheless they react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and that

(E) thus they have never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and

A
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by saketk » Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:15 am
bblast wrote:A study has shown that during horseplay, non-human primates, like rhesus monkeys, who have always lacked the morphological structures necessary to display tossing-like motions and have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that they will make spontaneous, rapid and accurate inferences about the potential outcomes of many actions that are outside of both their natural and potential motor repertoires.


(A) have thus never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and that

(B) have thus never thrown but nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and

(C) have thus never thrown, that they nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way as humans do, and

(D) thus they have never thrown, but nonetheless they react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and that

(E) thus they have never thrown nonetheless react to movements related to throwing just as quickly and in the same way that humans do, and

A
The key is to check the correct usage of idiom -- "As quickly and in the same way As" -- only A and C maintains the correct idiom structure.

Option C can be eliminated because of unclear "They"
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by navami » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:42 pm
A and D are close.
a wins as D is awkward.
That parallelism should be maintained.
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