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Tough one. This question is about parallelism.
Agricultural scientists continue to search for a strain of wheat that is hardy, disease-resistant and yields more grain per acre.
A.hardy, disease-resistant and yields Wrong. Because "hardy" || disease-resistant, so there should be "and" between "hardy" and "disease-resistant" to make the parallel structure clear.
B.hardy, resists disease, and that yields Wrong. If "that is"|| resists || yields ==> the second "that" is wrong. The correct structure should be: a strain of wheat that is hardy, resists disease and yields.....
C.hardy and disease-resistant and that yields Correct. "hardy" || "disease-resistant; "that is ...." || "that yields
D.hardy and resist disease, yielding Wrong. "a strain" is singular ==> "resist" is wrong. Should be "resists".
E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding Wrong. Although the structure is parallel, the meaning is wrong. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are characteristics of the strain of wheat, but "yielding" is the advantage of the grains, so we cannot put them together in a parallel structure. For example: My professor who is tall, black-hair and who teaches math is very smart. We can put "tall" and "black-hair" in one parallel structure, but cannot put "tall" + "black-hair" + "teach math". They are in different categories.
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very good example of Parallelism . Initially i got wrong but after going to Pqhai explanations , i understood this . We should take "and" as a parallel marker and look for words joined by "and" ,check whether these words (joined by and ) have a similar priority or make up similar idea. Here in this question , hardy and disease -resistant are properties of strain of wheat. So these two properties have to made parallel by combing hardy "and" disease-resistant. These two properties make up similar idea/or of same rank.
Yields is advantage of Wheat and this should not be in parallel to Properties(hardy and disease resistant).So this is separated by "and" is made parallel to first "that is" "that yields " || "that is".
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29 Jan 2016, 07:30
vibhav wrote:
Agricultural scientists continue to search for a strain of wheat that is hardy, disease-resistant and yields more grain per acre.
A.hardy, disease-resistant and yields
B.hardy, resists disease, and that yields
C.hardy and disease-resistant and that yields
D.hardy and resist disease, yielding
E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding
Moderators,
Please update the question verb is should be out of underlined portion. Otherwise it does not make any sense. When verb comes out of underline then Parallelism - that is X ,Y and that yields - makes sense When verb is inside the underlined portion , it will be replaced by hardy in the beginning and form a fragment - that hardy, disease-resistant and that yields
Hence the question should be Agricultural scientists continue to search for a strain of wheat that is hardy, disease-resistant and yields more grain per acre.
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29 Jan 2016, 13:12
tryambaks wrote:
vibhav wrote:
Agricultural scientists continue to search for a strain of wheat that is hardy, disease-resistant and yields more grain per acre.
A.hardy, disease-resistant and yields
B.hardy, resists disease, and that yields
C.hardy and disease-resistant and that yields
D.hardy and resist disease, yielding
E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding
Moderators,
Please update the question verb is should be out of underlined portion. Otherwise it does not make any sense. When verb comes out of underline then Parallelism - that is X ,Y and that yields - makes sense When verb is inside the underlined portion , it will be replaced by hardy in the beginning and form a fragment - that hardy, disease-resistant and that yields
Hence the question should be Agricultural scientists continue to search for a strain of wheat that is hardy, disease-resistant and yields more grain per acre.
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01 Oct 2016, 02:57
Wrt E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding Wrong. Although the structure is parallel, the meaning is wrong. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are characteristics of the strain of wheat, but "yielding" is the advantage of the grains, so we cannot put them together in a parallel structure.
is yielding more grain per acre is a characteristic of the strain, along with other characteristics hardy and disease resistant. It is modifying the strain of wheat and is a noun phrase. So why is it wrong
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Alamel wrote:
Wrt E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding Wrong. Although the structure is parallel, the meaning is wrong. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are characteristics of the strain of wheat, but "yielding" is the advantage of the grains, so we cannot put them together in a parallel structure.
is yielding more grain per acre is a characteristic of the strain, along with other characteristics hardy and disease resistant. It is modifying the strain of wheat and is a noun phrase. So why is it wrong
Option E has a serious parallelism problem. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are adjectives,but " yielding" here is a verb in present continuous tense (is yielding), Two adjectives are wrongly made parallel to a present continuous verb.
("is yielding" is not a modifier - it is the verb for the subject "that")
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08 Oct 2016, 01:58
Hi thanks for the reply.
How is the role of yielding here different from the word throbbing in the below sentence She has a headache that is painful, irritating and throbbing. yielding - is a gerund and not a verb - correct me if i am wrong similar to throbbing in the above sentence
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Alamel wrote:
Hi thanks for the reply.
How is the role of yielding here different from the word throbbing in the below sentence She has a headache that is painful, irritating and throbbing. yielding - is a gerund and not a verb - correct me if i am wrong similar to throbbing in the above sentence
First, none of the -ing constructions in your sentence or in option E are gerunds - gerunds are nouns and here these -ing forms are either a verb or an adjective.
In your sentence: throbbing is an adjective - remove painful and irritating. You are left with: ....that is throbbing. - throbbing is not a action by pain but an adjective referring to pain.
In option E: yielding is a verb. remove the two adjectives hardy and disease-resistant. You are left with: ..that is yielding more grain per acre. - yielding is an action by wheat.
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28 Nov 2016, 15:23
C is correct because hardy and disease-resistant are both adjectives, while yield is a verb --> hardy and disease should therefore be parallel to one another and yield will be treated separately.
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sayantanc2k wrote:
Alamel wrote:
Wrt E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding Wrong. Although the structure is parallel, the meaning is wrong. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are characteristics of the strain of wheat, but "yielding" is the advantage of the grains, so we cannot put them together in a parallel structure.
is yielding more grain per acre is a characteristic of the strain, along with other characteristics hardy and disease resistant. It is modifying the strain of wheat and is a noun phrase. So why is it wrong
Option E has a serious parallelism problem. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are adjectives,but " yielding" here is a verb in present continuous tense (is yielding), Two adjectives are wrongly made parallel to a present continuous verb.
("is yielding" is not a modifier - it is the verb for the subject "that")
Hi,
Correct me if I am wrong but as per my understanding VERB+ING can not stand alone as a verb, it needs a helping verb such as IS + VERB+ING or ARE + VERB+ING. A stand alone VERB+ING acts as an adjective and always modifies the noun.
The error i see in option E is the second part of the sentence is a FRAGMENT as it lacks verb.
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aman15390 wrote:
sayantanc2k wrote:
Alamel wrote:
Wrt E.hardy, disease-resistant, and yielding Wrong. Although the structure is parallel, the meaning is wrong. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are characteristics of the strain of wheat, but "yielding" is the advantage of the grains, so we cannot put them together in a parallel structure.
is yielding more grain per acre is a characteristic of the strain, along with other characteristics hardy and disease resistant. It is modifying the strain of wheat and is a noun phrase. So why is it wrong
Option E has a serious parallelism problem. "Hardy" and "disease-resistant" are adjectives,but " yielding" here is a verb in present continuous tense (is yielding), Two adjectives are wrongly made parallel to a present continuous verb.
("is yielding" is not a modifier - it is the verb for the subject "that")
Hi,
Correct me if I am wrong but as per my understanding VERB+ING can not stand alone as a verb, it needs a helping verb such as IS + VERB+ING or ARE + VERB+ING. A stand alone VERB+ING acts as an adjective and always modifies the noun.
The error i see in option E is the second part of the sentence is a FRAGMENT as it lacks verb.
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A is wrong because ‘hardy’ does not parallel ‘disease-resistant’ B is wrong because it does not need the that. ‘that is’ has to parallel ‘resists’ and ‘yields’ C is correct ‘hardy’ parallels ‘disease-resistant’ and ‘that is’ parallels ‘that yields’ D is wrong because ‘a strain’ is obviously singular and ‘resists’ is plural. E is wrong because ‘hardy’ and ‘disease’ resistant’ are qualities of the wheat, while ‘yielding’ is a quality of the grain. This means that they cannot be put together.
So, C is the only correct option
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