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Although blue herons can still be found along the Maine

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Re: Although blue herons can still be found along the Maine [#permalink] New post   06 Apr 2020, 09:55
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Wulfang wrote:
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Does C not change the meaning here. The author is comparing population now and populationin the 70's. But in C, using since suggests that the population has been continuously decreasing. Doesnt this cause a problem?

Is there another error in D except for the missing 'drastically'??

Hello, Wulfang. To lend more credence to your interpretation of (C), I think a present perfect tense would be in order, as in, their populations have been declining dramatically since the 1970s. As for the missing dramatically in (D) and (E), remember, you can only take as gospel what is in the non-underlined (sorry, I had to do it) portion of the sentence. You cannot look to the underlined part of any answer choice and say that a certain element must appear there. The real issue is that (D) and (E) are too similar.

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Re: Although blue herons can still be found along the Maine [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2020, 01:05
Is there a word like populations? That is the only reason I eliminated those choices

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Is there a word like populations? That is the only reason I eliminated those choices

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Hello, Saiharish98. Yes, populations is a counting word, similar in this usage to numbers, as I explain in my post just above in my analysis for choice (C). I hope it helps; if not, feel free to inquire further.

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Re: Although blue herons can still be found along the Maine [#permalink] New post   16 Jul 2023, 04:36
Such long thread and still no one explains properly why E is incorrect! Can someone pls address this?

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Re: Although blue herons can still be found along the Maine [#permalink] New post   16 Jul 2023, 05:06
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Such long thread and still no one explains properly why E is incorrect! Can someone pls address this?

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The following posts discuss why E is wrong in detail:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/although-blu ... l#p1530879
https://gmatclub.com/forum/although-blu ... l#p2489769

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Re: Although blue herons can still be found along the Maine [#permalink] New post   16 Jul 2023, 07:50
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USucks wrote:
Such long thread and still no one explains properly why E is incorrect! Can someone pls address this?

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The following posts discuss why E is wrong in detail:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/although-blu ... l#p1530879
https://gmatclub.com/forum/although-blu ... l#p2489769

Hope it helps.


Thank you. But these two answers only mentions why they are incorrect only in the context of this specific question while providing zero explanation why we can't use such grammatical structure in practice. This is why I am hoping to see someone posting some more "proper" answers.
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