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Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2007, 11:56
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2007, 12:47
This is a participle parallelism

found ....resembling
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   14 Jan 2007, 13:56
C because you can eliminate D & E because "that" is not needed here; we are left with A, B, &C. C is the best answer because of ll structure.
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   15 Jan 2007, 01:49
trivikram wrote:
This is a participle parallelism

found ....resembling


Hmm... I can barely understand why "found ... resembling" is more parallel than "found ... and that resembles"
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   15 Jan 2007, 08:00
IMO, the 'that' in 'A' makes it sound like the animal resembles an hummingbird because it is found in the Phillipine.
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   15 Jan 2007, 20:48
An animal found in the Philippines... an animal resembling...

An animal found in the Philippines... an animal that resembles...

Which of these 2 sounds more //?

The 1st, obviously.

Noun - verb... noun - verb: Better than

Noun - verb... noun - adjective clause

C.
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   16 Jan 2007, 08:35
i think the second option would only be // if it where:

An animal that is found in the Philippines... an animal that resembles
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Re: Why C is better than A [#permalink] New post   18 Jan 2007, 18:34
I think the full sentence might be like this:

First discovered more than 30 years ago, Lina's sunbird, a four-and-a-half-inch animal which was(is) found in the Philippines and which resembles a humming bird...

We can make it short by omit "which" but you have to change the form of verb 1 that follows "which" to verb ing, omit both "which" and "verb to be" and don't have to change form of the following verb.

"which was(is) found" to "found"
"which resembles" to "resembling"



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