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many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   13 Dec 2003, 06:42
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many of them ...many of which :?



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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   13 Dec 2003, 09:07
C is the best answer.
Only C makes it clear that monestaries were chiseled from solid rock.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   13 Dec 2003, 09:51
Geethu wrote:
What is wrong with E ?


It is not clear what "them" refers to.
The subject of the previous phrase is "mountainous regoins" but the closest noun is "monasteries".

C does not have any ambiguities.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   13 Dec 2003, 22:51
vote for C.
clear and straight :wink:
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   15 Dec 2003, 23:48
dj wrote:
vote for C.
clear and straight :wink:



i asked an prof of english at univ of delaware
and he agrees, C is the best answer.

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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   14 Oct 2006, 22:05
Now, there is another post for this same problem, and as the other post and The SC1000's answer indicate the answer is E.

The professor might not be able to get 51/51 on the verbal.

Once again, what's wrong with C?
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   14 Oct 2006, 23:56
"dotting" is downright pathetic. I disagree with the OA on this one.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   15 Oct 2006, 02:16
I prefer E to C, because "monastries are dotting" seems a bit curious, as if they were right in the process of dotting the mountains.

Asadeep said it is not clear whether them refers to mountains or monastries.
But "them", in this sentence, cannot refer to mountains, because it must modify the group of words just before the comma.

As in this example(may be I'm wrong!):

The trees bear apples, large and red.
The trees bear apples, many of them large and red.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   15 Oct 2006, 06:08
I prefer B

Flip the sentence and you get B as the winner
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   15 Oct 2006, 06:24
trivikram wrote:
I prefer B

Flip the sentence and you get B as the winner


Mountainous regions cannot be "chiseled." Wrong modifier.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   15 Oct 2006, 08:03
GMATT73 wrote:
trivikram wrote:
I prefer B

Flip the sentence and you get B as the winner


Mountainous regions cannot be "chiseled." Wrong modifier.


:oops:

my bad ..Thanks MATT for pointing it out
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   16 Oct 2006, 03:14
C is wrong for using dotting. This implies that it is an ongoing process.
dot has to be used to convey the correct meaning.
I'm going with E here.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   16 Oct 2006, 07:01
I guess, in this case, passive voice is less evil than "Dotting"

Thanks for your explanation.
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Re: many of them ...many of which [#permalink] many of them ...many of which   16 Oct 2006, 20:54
Why D can not be correct.

GMAT prefers not to use which but in this case which clearly refers to monasteries.



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