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While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been the second most massive dinosaur that ever lived. A. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been B. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appear to be from C. it appears that paleontologists have found huge fossil bones that are from D. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones from what appears to be E. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones, which are from what appear to be OA
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01 Nov 2012, 06:19
A,B and C can be eliminated for improper modifiers. Between D and E, will go with D because dinosaur is singular. However, D also seems to convey the meaning that the bones were found from the dinosaur. Expert opinion would shed some light. Kudos Please... If my post helped.
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01 Nov 2012, 06:21
Jp27 wrote: While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been the second most massive dinosaur that ever lived.
A. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been
B. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appear to be from
C. it appears that paleontologists have found huge fossil bones that are from
D. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones from what appears to be
E. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones, which are from what appear to be
OA after some discussion ..... A ,which refers to paleontologists....meaning wise it should refer to bones B for the same reasons C Place holder "it" used to post infinitive or that clause, the usage is inocrrect D SV agreement problem...what is subject of the verb appears...no singular subject E Correct... What is the OA..
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01 Nov 2012, 06:37
MacFauz wrote: A,B and C can be eliminated for improper modifiers. Between D and E, will go with D because dinosaur is singular. However, D also seems to convey the meaning that the bones were found from the dinosaur. Expert opinion would shed some light.
Kudos Please... If my post helped. exactly my point there is a SV agreement here but the meaning is really bizarre.
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Re: While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have [#permalink]
01 Nov 2012, 06:38
davidfrank wrote: Jp27 wrote: While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been the second most massive dinosaur that ever lived.
A. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been
B. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appear to be from
C. it appears that paleontologists have found huge fossil bones that are from
D. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones from what appears to be
E. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones, which are from what appear to be
OA after some discussion ..... A ,which refers to paleontologists....meaning wise it should refer to bones B for the same reasons C Place holder "it" used to post infinitive or that clause, the usage is inocrrect D SV agreement problem...what is subject of the verb appears...no singular subject E Correct... What is the OA.. As the above poster has noted, we need appearS because of "dinosaur"
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Re: While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have [#permalink]
01 Nov 2012, 12:41
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bxn D n E :
D : paleontologists have found bones...........from X
E : paleontologists have found bones......... which are from X
guess we don't need the extra WHICH in E, as the intent is clear even without which and unambiguously refers back to FOSSIL BONES.
2nd split :
D : P have found bones................from what ?...............from the massive dinosaur ( singular ) : thus the verb should match in no ie APPEARS ( singular )
P have found bones ...... From ..................(what APPEARS to be )....................the massive Dinosaur
appears n dinosaur MATCH
thus D wins wrt sv agreement
my understanding.
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01 Nov 2012, 12:57
I'm not the master in SC but have several ideas
I think we can easily eliminate A,B,C and try to find mistake in E.
the first thing we see is wordiness
which are from what appear to be
from what appears to be - sounds better
sure it may be asked where is the subject but I linked it to dinosaur
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Re: While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have [#permalink]
01 Nov 2012, 16:09
Jp27 wrote: While digging in the Egyptian desert, huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been the second most massive dinosaur that ever lived.
A. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appears to have been
B. huge fossil bones have been found by paleontologists, which appear to be from
C. it appears that paleontologists have found huge fossil bones that are from
D. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones from what appears to be
E. paleontologists have found huge fossil bones, which are from what appear to be
OA after some discussion ..... Jp27, Can you post OA? also underline the original sentence? Thanks !!!
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