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a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.
Are they parallel? If, how? please explain.
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Hi nahid78, this is because both domesticated and performing are participles (domesticated is past participle, while performing is present participle).

If your question is whether present participle is considered parallel to past participle, then the answer is yes.

In fact, since participles are adjectives, participles are also considered parallel to adjectives. For example:

James was tall, but stooping.
- tall is an adjective, while stooping is present participle.

Let me know if you are looking for an official example and I can dig it up real quick.

p.s. Our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana discusses this concept, its application and examples in significant detail. If someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the corresponding section.
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at the turn of twentieth century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.

A. covering as much as 90 percent of thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them
B. covering as much as 90 percent of thailand accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, and a third of them were
C. Covered as much as 90 percent of thailand and accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, with a third
D. Covered as much as 90 percent of thailand and accommodated as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them
E. Covered as much as 90 percent of thailand and accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, with a third of them
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The underlined potion extends till tasks in the question,do edit it.
My reasoning
A-No verb---Ing simply acts as modifiers.
B- it should be as many as
C-same as B
D-Correct...Verb is introduced and parallel structure is maintained
E- Same as B
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main verb is required hence C,D,E remain
Elephants are countable hence as many as is required only D
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Just as an aside, I am surprised that in this GMAT - originated question, a country can have 90% of its land as forest cover, even more than what the forest - ridden African States. Does GMAT believe so?
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At the turn of the twenties century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accomodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.

A) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accomodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

B) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand accomodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

C) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accomodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third

D) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accomodated as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

E) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accomodating as many as 300,000 elephants, with a third of them
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At the turn of the twenties century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.

(A) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(B) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(C) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third

(D) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(E) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, with a third of them
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"as many as " is correct here because "as many as" is modifying elephants which are countable.
Option A , D , E are left.

Option A is incorrect because "accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants" is a verb-ing modifier and it has no logical entity ( some noun etc ) to modify here.

Option E is also incorrect due to the same reason mentioned above.

Option D uses "covered " and "accommodated " and both have been used as verbs. So parallel and correct.

Is my explanation correct ? VeritasKarishma
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At the turn of the twenties century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.

(A) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(B) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(C) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third

(D) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(E) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, with a third of them
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look at choice e.
even if " accomodating" is changed into " "accomodated", choice e is still wrong because " with a third of them..." grammatically work as an adverb. this means "with a third..." must modifies the preceding clause. but there can not be any logic meaning relation between the preceding clause and "with a third...". so, no logic meaning relation means an error.
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I did a search on this question and I believe it is from GWD, who is a Chinese guy with, supposedly, something like photographic memory. So, supposedly, this is a real GMAT question
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At the turn of the twenties century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.

(A) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(B) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(C) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, a third

(D) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

(E) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, with a third of them
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In my GMAT Prep 4, I got this somewhat modified version of above question - for example, check option B

At the turn of the twentieth century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks.

A) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

B) covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, and a third of them were

C) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as much as 300,000 elephants, with a third

D) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodated as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them

E) covered as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accommodating as many as 300,000 elephants, with a third of them

OA is D

I wrongly marked option B. For the benefit of everyone I thought to add why I was wrong. It is very interesting to check last underlined part of the sentence.
1. covering is correctly modifying 'forest' 2. accommodated correctly modifies 'forest covering 90% of Thailand' 3. after comma we have and --> means we need independent clause 4. a third of them were --> looks correct to me (a third of them belongs to 300,000 elephants) except that the verb 'were' followed by 'domesticated and performing' brings trouble

I think domesticated and performing should be logically used as modifiers and not as verbs. The verb 'were' and 'and' requires parallelism that is not present between 'were domesticated' and 'were performing'.

Option D correctly uses domesticated and performing as modifiers. Hence, Option D is better than Option B.
Takeaway for me --> non-underline part is important.
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Question: At the turn of the twenties century, forest covering as much as 90 percent of Thailand and accomodating as many as 300,000 elephants, a third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks

In the above sentence, "A third of them domesticated and performing various essential tasks" is written correctly? If yes please provide an explanation.

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Yes, such usage is correct. This kind of modifiers are called subgroup modifier. Following are some examples of usage of subgroup modifiers (examples from Manhattan SC guide):

Right: This model explains all known subatomic particles, SOME OF WHICH WERE only recently discovered.
Right: This model explains all known subatomic particles, SOME OF THEM only recently discovered.
Right: This model explains all known subatomic particles, SOME only recently discovered.
Wrong: This model explains all known subatomic particles, OF WHICH SOME WERE only recently discovered.
Wrong: This model explains all known subatomic particles, SOME OF THEM WHICH WERE only recently discovered.
Wrong: This model explains all known subatomic particles, SOME OF WHICH only recently discovered.

Instead of "some", "a third" is used in the above example corresponding to the second right example above.
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Could you please explain the approach?
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