Most brutal SC #12

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Most brutal SC #12

by mleviko » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:50 am
A catfish passes on to its offspring not only a particular genetic makeup and also definite environmental needs, such as for one specific lake’s temperature and salinity.

1. and also definite environmental needs, such as for one specific lake’s temperature
2. and also definite environmental needs, like the temperature of one specific lake
3. but also definite environmental needs, such as for the temperature of one specific lake
4. but also definite environmental needs, like one specific lake’s temperature
5. but also definite environmental needs, such as for one specific lake’s temperature


OA is E Why??
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by simplyjat » Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:28 am
Firstly idiom, not only X, but also Y...
Secondly such as, to give examples...
Lastly, parallelism... X's Y and Z
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by hillzheng » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:02 pm
So, which one is correct?

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by simplyjat » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:15 am
We have a spoiler feature. Something like this
So whenever you see a rectangular black box in the post, move you mouse over the black box to see the hidden text.
The answer is already present in the original post, in form of spoiler
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