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First discovered more than 30 years ago, Lina's sunbird, a
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60. First discovered more than 30 years ago, Lina's sunbird, a four-and-a-half-inch animal found in the Philippines and that resembles a hummingbird, has shimmering metallic colors on its head; a brilliant orange patch, bordered with red tufts, in the center of its breast; and a red eye.
A. found in the Philippines and that resembles B. found in the Philippines and that, resembling C. found in the Philippines and resembling D. that is found in the Philippines and it resembles E. that is found in the Philippines and that, resembling
what's wrong with a?
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Here's the explanation.
The given sentence has nested modifiers that diminishes the readability of the sentence. Hence, our first aim should be to eliminate as many modifiers/modifying phrases/clauses as possible.
The various phrases/clauses are listed below: First discovered more than 30 years ago a four-and-a-half-inch animal found in the Philippines resembles a hummingbird has shimmering metallic colors on its head
Note that we do not need to consider the part after the semicolon as it can stand on its own.
So, we need to concentrate on the following part mainly Lina's sunbird, a ...animal, found in the Philippines and that resembles a hummingbird
We know that any two parts of a sentence joined by 'and' should be parallel or equal Hence we see that - Lina's sunbird ... found in the Philippines, has shimmering ... --> is correct whereas - Lina's sunbird ... that resembles a hummingbird, has shimmering ... --> is incorrect The correct option should have been - Lina's sunbird ... resembling a hummingbird, has shimmering ...
Hence, looking at the available options, it's quite clear that the option C has a correct usage i.e. Lina's sunbird ... found in the Philippines and resembling a hummingbird, has shimmering ...
All other answer choices have used incorrect parallelism.
Hope this helps
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