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The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly inexpensive: food, water, affection, and shelter, and occasional visits to the veterenarian.

A) and occasional visits to the veterenarian

B) with occasional veterenarian visits

C) with occasional visits to the veterenarian

D) yet occasionally visiting the veterenarian

E) but some occasional visits to the veterenarian are needed



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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 09:44
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The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly inexpensive: food, water, affection, and shelter, and occasional visits to the veterenarian.

A) and occasional visits to the veterenarian

B) with occasional veterenarian visits

C) with occasional visits to the veterenarian

D) yet occasionally visiting the veterenarian

E) but some occasional visits to the veterenarian are needed


My first thoughts on reading this sentence was that there must be a "with... visits to..." structure.

A) Eliminate. Parallelism error because of the double and.

B) Aha! Begins with a "with". Can consider as a potential right answer. Will read it in full later.

C) Hmmm. Another "with". Ok. For consideration.

D) Sounds plain wrong.

E) But is for a counter stmt, doesnt fit.

Reading B) again, "vet. visits" doesnt seem right.

Read C) and fit into sentence. Comes out ok syntactically and semantically.

I'd choose C.
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 09:53
I think in this sentence we need some contrast....
so D and E remain
E is a little wordy but conveys the meaning properly, so I would go for E
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 09:54
A,D and E out for obvious reasons.

Now Between B & C I had to rely on how they sound to my ears.
They both sound good to me.

...food, wather, and shelter, with occasional vet vists.
IMHO, B goes better with rest of the items in the list.
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 11:38
I feel that C does the job, but E is also tempting me. I'm not sure if there should be a contrast or not.
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 12:29
khaos wrote:
I feel that C does the job, but E is also tempting me. I'm not sure if there should be a contrast or not.


The : is used to list the needs. If there is a need to contrast, the contrast needs to happen before the : or after the end of this sentence.

So, E is out. I will pick C on exam day.
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 12:37
Yeah I would go with C. Contrast is not needed. If it were stating that trips to the vet were expensive and frequent, then that would contrast the others.
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2007, 15:16
Thanks for the clarification ncprasad and burningskulls!
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   13 Jan 2007, 04:08
OA is C
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   15 Jan 2007, 21:15
AdrianG wrote:
OA is C


Adrian, could you please let us know the origin of the question?
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Re: The basic needs of the average cat are simple and largerly [#permalink] New post   16 Jan 2007, 01:38
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Andr359 wrote:
AdrianG wrote:
OA is C


Adrian, could you please let us know the origin of the question?

It is from Kaplan 800


Exactly :)



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