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Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest. (A) extending (B) extends (C) extended (D) it extended (E) is extending Why is extending and spawned parallel participial phrases? |
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C) extended if it is assumed to be nonparallel in a verb tense.
Why is that?
D) It Extended - same thing
E) is extending- what do they mean it ungrammatically introduces a new predicate
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Re: Parallel Participles [#permalink]
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VTay25 wrote: Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and ( extending) for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
Why is extending and spawned parallel participial phrases?
It is not paralel; but if you said extended the sentece would be bizarre. You won't want it to be parallel, lets put it this way  The only way to go is extending.
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Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
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I choose B.
The oldest living organism extends for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
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A is the answer.
This one is from OG and I too wondered why A was the answer for this.
The OG says that it is a question that tests parallelism.
Shouldn't spawned -extended/extends as the logical choice.
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Yeah, I chose B(extended) ,and I'm not sure why the OA is A...
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Could it be that "intervowen", "spawned" and "extending" are all adjectives of the giant fungus? In other words all these are traits of the giant fungus .
My first instinct was to pick A , but I got confused after looking at the answer choices and picked C instead. Guess it takes a little more confidence to pick A 
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Sorry , I meant to say i picked B after looking at the answer choices
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A is the correct answer. This question is about the use of present vs past participle.
present participle is used to denote a present condition that still prevails
past participle is used to denote a completed action, usually in a passive mood
The sentence is definitely talking about the filigree:
filigree [of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles] spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest
What is b/w brackets is a prepositional phrase and remove it to make the sentence less cumbersome:
filigree spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest
As you can see, the filigree spawned by X some 10,000 years ago. This warrants the use of past participle. Also, "spawned by" denotes passive voice which justifies the use of past participle.
As for the "extending", it is still prevailing today in the Michigan forest so you cannot use past participle "extended".
The present and past participles are used to describe the "filigree", they act as adjectives.
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210. Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
Explanation please.
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You can find the answer here.
http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11305
This one has tricky parallelism with the use of participle phrases. You can get more this type of question in 885SC.
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paul wrote: This question is about the use of present vs past participle.
present participle is used to denote a present condition that still prevails
past participle is used to denote a completed action, usually in a passive mood
The sentence is definitely talking about the filigree:
filigree [of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles] spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest
That's a great explanation. What I was thinking was that "extends" was parallel to "is" like this:
"a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree and extends for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest. "
I suppose I'd need a "that" before "extends", is it right?
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Quote: I suppose I'd need a "that" before "extends", is it right?
Yes
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SC- how to solve this? [#permalink]
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Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is a interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 1000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soill of a michigan forest.
a. extending
b. exteds
c. extended
d. it extended
e. is extending
i think extended parallel with spawed
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check out the following link. its been already discussed few times here in the club.
http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=11305
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Extended parallel with spawned slightly changes the meaning. This, I believe, is an OG question.
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a. extending - present participle suggests the tentacles are still extending today
b. exteds - present tense is out
c. extended
d. it extended - 'it' is redundant
e. is extending - present participle suggests the tentacles are still extending today
I'll take C. Past tense 'extended' goes well with the tense of this passage.
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Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is a interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 1000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soill of a michigan forest.
The key to solving this is to identify the right modifier.
There is a giant fungus. What is it like? It is characterized by an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles and is extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
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