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hi, Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and shellfi sh, and exploiting other wild and domestic resources. (A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and shellfi sh, and exploiting (B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and seafood, and the exploitation of (C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fi sh and seafood, and the exploiting of (D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fi sh and seafood, and exploiting (E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fi sh and shellfi sh, and they exploited this problem tests the use of parallelism. however, i dont' see it in choice B which is the OA. cultivation and harvesting are not parallel. please advise!
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Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting other wild and domestic resources.
(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting
(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood, and the exploitation of - CORRECT
(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the exploiting of
(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and seafood, and exploiting
(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and shellfish, and they exploited
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tt11234 wrote: hi,
Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal
Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate
society, based on cultivating such crops like corn
and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and shellfi sh, and
exploiting other wild and domestic resources.
(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and
beans, the harvesting of fi sh and shellfi sh, and
exploiting
(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn
and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and seafood,
and the exploitation of
(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn
and beans, harvesting fi sh and seafood, and the
exploiting of
(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops
such as corn and beans, the harvest of fi sh and
seafood, and exploiting
(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops
like corn and beans, their harvest of fi sh and
shellfi sh, and they exploited
this problem tests the use of parallelism. however, i dont' see it in choice B which is the OA. cultivation and harvesting are not parallel. please advise! cultivation of --- noun phrase havesting of -- noun prhase exploitation of -- noun phrase. harvesting --> gerund act as noun. these three are parallel and correct. also such..as is correct idiom. such .. like is incorrect.
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Yup..its B !! @tt11254 : Generally to convert gerund into noun phrase, you will observe that " the ______ of " system is used. This converts it into a noun phrase. The above question is a classic example of Noun Phrase Parallelism.
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tt11234 wrote: Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal
Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate
society, based on cultivating such crops like corn
and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and shellfi sh, and
exploiting other wild and domestic resources.
(A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and
beans, the harvesting of fi sh and shellfi sh, and
exploiting
(B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn
and beans, the harvesting of fi sh and seafood,
and the exploitation of
(C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn
and beans, harvesting fi sh and seafood, and the
exploiting of
(D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops
such as corn and beans, the harvest of fi sh and
seafood, and exploiting
(E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops
like corn and beans, their harvest of fi sh and
shellfi sh, and they exploited
this problem tests the use of parallelism. however, i dont' see it in choice B which is the OA. cultivation and harvesting are not parallel. please advise! first SUCH AS and LIKE --- it should be such as here as we are giving example of the crops being cultivated. its not some crops like corn and beans .. its really corn and bean now the ||ism cultivation -- noun harvesting -- noun (gerund) exploitation -- noun.. final answer B
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B. for the use of idiom "such x as y and z".
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B has parallelism of concrete noun and complex gerunds "the -ing of"
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