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by iamcste » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:02 am
II wrote:Can you please point out the grammatical issues with each of the incorrect answer choices.

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1. "While" sets the rigtht contrast between "twins that look resemble greatly" v/s " twins that look quite disimilar"

We do not use "And " to set the contrast

All options but B have "And"

2. Removal of "FACT" doesnt change the meaning.. Infact, makes sentence succint and terse


3. ".Looking " is terribly awkward and does not set parallelism. We can eliminate 3 options for this errors. In correct choice, "Resemble" and "look" parallelism

4. "That they vary considerably" goes well with prepositional prase." on a spectrum of"


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by mals24 » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:05 am
OMG iamcste you are god of SC :) You should write books.
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by II » Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:36 am
Agree ... you are the SC king ! :-)
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