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by sal_xcool » Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:24 pm
The mathematical concept of "zero" was born not in a single moment of revelation but evolved independently in several ancient cultures, including India, Babylonia, and the Maya Empire.

A. born not in a single moment of revelation but
B. born not in a single moment of revelation but was
C. not born in a single moment of revelation but
D. not born in a single moment of revelation but it
E. not born in a single moment of revelation but had

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Can someone explain the difference between choice C and D?
I did eliminate all other choices but I dont quite see the difference between C and D .
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by Night reader » Mon Feb 14, 2011 4:09 pm
I thought of E, but C is different from D. The two clause are not separated with a comma, we have not two independent clauses, but one independent and one dependent. If we have comma before but, then C is correct too.
But I have selected E in hopes to distinguish two events birthday :) of zero and its preceding occurrences...
sal_xcool wrote:The mathematical concept of "zero" was born not in a single moment of revelation but[/u] evolved independently in several ancient cultures, including India, Babylonia, and the Maya Empire.

A. born not in a single moment of revelation but
B. born not in a single moment of revelation but was
C. not born in a single moment of revelation but
D. not born in a single moment of revelation but it
E. not born in a single moment of revelation but had

OA C


Can someone explain the difference between choice C and D?
I did eliminate all other choices but I dont quite see the difference between C and D .
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by geekforu » Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:45 pm
How did you eliminate rest of the options ?
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by Tani » Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:37 pm
First, "not" modifies "born". It does not modify "in a single moment". Eliminate A and B.

Second, you need to make the two verb forms parallel.



C. "not born...but evolved" - parallel

D. "not born... but it evolved" - not parallel

E. "not born...but had evolved" - not parallel
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by aimkp » Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:01 am
right idiom = not X........But Y. X = Y

A: idiom er = not maintain parallelism across idiom

B: diom er = not maintain parallelism across idiom

C: Maintain parallelism across idiom

D: idiom er = not maintain parallelism across idiom

E: idiom er = not maintain parallelism across idiom
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by ankurmit » Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:29 pm
Tani. thanks for explaining.
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by Tani » Fri Feb 18, 2011 6:21 am
Happy to be helpful!
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