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OG Gmat Review 11th edition Sentence Correction # 43

by resilient » Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:17 pm
Five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in wester scotland this summer bringing to 34 the number of wild birds sucesfully raised since transplants from norway began in 1975.

a. bringing
b. nd brings
c. and it brings
d. and it brought
e. and brought

c and d have no refferent - but how not? arent the sea gulls the refferent?
and why is E not a right answer?
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by simplyjat » Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:05 pm
Referent in the sentence is the clause "Five fledgling sea eagles left their nests in wester scotland this summer". The occurrence of this phenomenon did something and it is the consequence of the phenomenon that is discussed.
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by resilient » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:40 pm
yes i understand that part. I don't understand what tense to apply to it. i.e bringing, brought, etc. how do i know which one to use?
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by simplyjat » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:05 pm
bringing is progressive, and implies an activity that is continuing.

Get a good book on grammer, and learn the difference between simple, perfect and progressive tense forms.
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by resilient » Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:39 am
I can see that choice C, D and E are all wrong because of IT. I specifically noted that the IT can refer to the summer or scotland but it needs to refer to the seagulls migration. Am I on the right track?
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by crackgmat007 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:49 pm
I checked OG explanation and saw that option E is grammatical but not a logical one. Is option E grammattical?

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'Five eagles' can be a grammatical subject of the verb 'brought', but not a logical one.

IMO, comma followed by a connecting word joins two independent clauses. Here if we replace option E, the second independent clause lacks a subject or a referrant.

Initially, I thought it may be a list of items and hence grammatical...Five Fledgling sea eagles left...brought...But comma before 'and' creates two independent clauses.

May be I am missing something. Pls explain.

Five Fledgling sea eagles left their nests in western Scotland this summer, and brought.....
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