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mayur666
Joined: 15 Nov 2012
Last visit: 22 Feb 2015
Posts: 22
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Location: India
Concentration: Entrepreneurship, Operations
Schools: Babson '16 Krannert '16 Kellogg MMM '16
GMAT 1: 670 Q47 V36
GPA: 2.98
19 Sep 2013, 08:47
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A tiger escaped his enclosure at the San Francisco zoo, and it caused some to question whether the height of the dry moat that separated the animal from his victim was adequate.
A. and it caused
B. and it causes
C. and caused
D. and causing
E. causing
A. and it caused
B. and it causes
C. and caused
D. and causing
E. causing
20 Sep 2013, 11:36
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mayur666
Dear mayur666,
I'm happy to help with this.
First of all, you may find this blog helpful:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/modifiers- ... orrection/
Here, the first part of the sentence states a fact, and that fact overall, that entire situation, causes folks to ask questions. We need to modify a clause.
(A) & (B) use the pronoun "it", which presumably has the antecedent "tiger", but the tiger itself didn't cause some to ask questions. That's nonsense.
(C) uses verb parallelism again to make the tiger the cause ---- "A tiger escaped ... and caused ..." --- again, poppycock.
(D) puts a verb in parallel with a participle, a total trainwreck.
(E) is correct. A participial phrase, such as "causing some to question ...", can modify not just a single noun but a verb or even an entire phrase. That's exactly what is happening here.
Does this make sense?
Mike
19 Oct 2022, 19:27
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But there is a comma before “and”, so this “and” is used as a co-conjunction, right? It cannot be used to create a list because of this comma, so I think A is the only correct option, not C.
Any corrections or comment will be appreciated.
Please advise.
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Any corrections or comment will be appreciated.
Please advise.
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