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A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine provided the Stegosaurus dinosaur with an especially efficient solar heating and cooling system to allow them to move comfortably through different climatic regions. A)to allow them to move comfortably B)to allow it a comfortable movement C)that allowed it to move comfortably D)that allowed their comfortable movement E)Allowing them to move comfortably
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20 Apr 2012, 04:12
As we are talking about the Stegosaurus dinosaur here, 'them' and 'their' is wrong. That leaves us with (B) and (C). Of these, (C) is the best choice as it is clearer in meaning and also better structured. (C) is the answer.
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
20 Apr 2012, 04:15
I chose E for some reason could someone explain why E is wrong. Thanks
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20 Apr 2012, 15:38
hfbamafan wrote: I chose E for some reason could someone explain why E is wrong.
Thanks E is wrong because it uses "Them", when the subject is singular stegosaurus dinosaur, A is incorrect for same reason.
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
23 Jul 2012, 23:14
A,B & E are out coz of 'them' and 'their' since dinosaur is singular and should have 'it'...that leaves us with C & D...i chose C coz A row of uptight fan shaped plates.......that allowed sounds better than A row of uptight fan shaped plates....to allow
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
28 Jul 2012, 03:38
why b is wrong here. any expert suggestion??
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
28 Jul 2012, 13:35
B is wrong because "a comfortable movement" doesn't really make sense. The dinosaur moved, but it didn't "have a movement."
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
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hfbamafan wrote: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine provided the Stegosaurus dinosaur with an especially efficient solar heating and cooling system to allow them to move comfortably through different climatic regions.
A)to allow them to move comfortably
B)to allow it a comfortable movement
C)that allowed it to move comfortably
D)that allowed their comfortable movement
E)Allowing them to move comfortably S-V agreement err so eliminated A, D & E B vs. C: Chose B "to move comfortably" is succinct & eliminates any awkwardness...I don't spot anything else wrong with B Cheers GODSPEED
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
30 Jul 2012, 04:25
B)to allow it a comfortable movement
To add over the given explanations why B is wrong, I think the phrase is not logically connected. "To Allow it" and "A comfortable Movement" should be gramatically connected. In option B "A comfortable movement" is used as a noun. An appropriate usage would have been - "To allow it to have a comfortable movement .."
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
30 Jul 2012, 08:51
GyanOne wrote: As we are talking about the Stegosaurus dinosaur here, 'them' and 'their' is wrong. That leaves us with (B) and (C).
Of these, (C) is the best choice as it is clearer in meaning and also better structured.
(C) is the answer. HI, What apart from S_V error is there any other mistake in E? Please tell me if "Allowing it to move comfortably" is correct or not.
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
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vivekdixit07 wrote: GyanOne wrote: As we are talking about the Stegosaurus dinosaur here, 'them' and 'their' is wrong. That leaves us with (B) and (C).
Of these, (C) is the best choice as it is clearer in meaning and also better structured.
(C) is the answer. HI, What apart from S_V error is there any other mistake in E? Please tell me if "Allowing it to move comfortably" is correct or not. Yes, it is correct. There is just the SV agreement error and if you eliminate that then the sentence is correct.
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
20 Nov 2012, 00:46
Hi Friends/experts,
My two cents on the question. "C" is definitely the most clear answer, however this is not a good GMAT question.
Explaining the correct answer:
A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine provided the Stegosaurus dinosaur with an especially efficient solar heating and cooling system that allowed it to move comfortably
Do you see what I pointed out here? "it" is never used with living things! In this case it has to be either he/she. I guess GMAT would not do that!
Experts,
Do you agree?
I wasted 10-15 seconds thinking about it. But at the end, I knew this is the only answer that makes most sense.
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hfbamafan wrote: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine provided the Stegosaurus dinosaur with an especially efficient solar heating and cooling system to allow them to move comfortably through different climatic regions.
A)to allow them to move comfortably
B)to allow it a comfortable movement
C)that allowed it to move comfortably
D)that allowed their comfortable movement
E)Allowing them to move comfortably I went with E without checking "them" in it... I was wrong  I have couple of doubts... A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine provided the Stegosaurus dinosaur with an especially efficient solar heating and cooling system , allowing it to move comfortably through different climatic regions. If this was case it would be more clear right??? Because comma with -ING modifier will modify whole preceding clause? Wont this be more sensible answer, though its not listed in choices... If i miss anything pls correct me...
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
09 Dec 2012, 23:58
What is "that" referring to in the correct answer choice? I thought "that" may refer to just cooling system and thereby change the meaning, but I was wrong. Shouldn't the "that" just refer to the closest one?
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
10 Dec 2012, 02:09
Hi Marcab,
"that" correctly refers to the cooling system. It's the cooling system that helps dino's to move through diff. climatic conditions.
I hope I clarified your concern.
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10 Dec 2012, 02:15
Hii Kartik. If "that" were to refer to just "cooling system" then it may not enable the animal to move comfortably through "different" climatic regions. Moreover it changes the meaning also. After a close inspection I realised that its the "system" that is being modified by "that" and this "system" is the "solar heating and cooling system".
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Re: A row of upright fan-shaped plates running down the spine [#permalink]
10 Dec 2012, 02:18
Hi Marcab,
I skipped to write the complete part my bad. "that refers" to the COMPLETE system i.e. solar and cooling system.
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DmitryFarber wrote: B is wrong because "a comfortable movement" doesn't really make sense. The dinosaur moved, but it didn't "have a movement." Hi Dmitry, Had E had 'it' instead of 'them', would it have been correct? Also, is the above sentence grammatically correct ? trying to understand the correct usage of 'had'..
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noun to do
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noun doing/that do
is the traditional split gmat plays on us.
it is not easy to counter this split if we do not know the split before.
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For Sachin: Using the correct pronoun ("it" instead of "they") would definitely improve E, but we'd need a comma before "allowing." Without a comma, the last part (from "an especially" to the end of the sentence) becomes one enormous noun phrase, making the sentence very hard to read. Adding the comma turns the underlined portion into an adverbial modifier that modifies the previous clause. That doesn't quite match C, in which we are modifying the noun ("system"), but it would work. The construction you used ("Had E had 'it'"), but I associate it with formal/older British English. I would say "If E had had 'it'" or "If E had said 'it.'" (Note that the first "had" indicates past perfect, and the second is just the ordinary past tense verb "had." I can say "I had said," "I had taken," "I had run," etc., so I can also say "I had had.")
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