Heirloom tomatoes

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Heirloom tomatoes

by mmon » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:14 pm
Heirloom tomatoes, grown from seeds saved from the previous year, only look less appetizing than their round and red supermarket cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are more flavorful.

A. cousins, often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but are

B. cousins, often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although

C. cousins, often green and striped, or they have plenty of bumps and bruises, although they are

D. cousins; they are often green and striped, or with plenty of bumps and bruises, although

E. cousins; they are often green and striped, or have plenty of bumps and bruises, but they are
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by Domnu » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:19 pm
IMO, the answer is E. Here's why:

[spoiler]A: "have plenty of bumps and bruises" doesn't follow parallelism
B: isn't a complete sentence because of the word "although"
C: wordy and not a complete sentence
D: the part after the semicolon isn't a full sentence
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by vijay_venky » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:23 pm
I will go with E

The underlined statement after "cousins" is trying to explain the features of the subject of the sentence.
That is correctly conveyed in E

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by mmon » Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:26 pm
OA E

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by girish3131 » Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:05 pm
Acc to me , Ans is A

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