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16 Nov 2010, 06:14
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Can someone help me understand this question?
Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting other wild domestic resources.
A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting
B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood, and exploitation of
C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the exploiting of
D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and seafood, and exploiting
E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and shellfish, and they exploited
Can someone help me understand this question?
Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting other wild domestic resources.
A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting
B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood, and exploitation of
C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the exploiting of
D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and seafood, and exploiting
E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and shellfish, and they exploited
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16 Nov 2010, 06:52
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Two principles are essentially tested here. The first is the use of the comparative idiom -such as/like – to denote examples. The appropriate format is - such x as. - So we will drop all -such x like. - choices. A, C and E are out on this count.
The second theme is that of series parallelism, in which the three arms of the series namely 1. cultivation of 2. harvesting of and 3. exploitation of , have to be parallelly expressed. Choice B does that in the form of nouns and gerund and hence is the answer
The second theme is that of series parallelism, in which the three arms of the series namely 1. cultivation of 2. harvesting of and 3. exploitation of , have to be parallelly expressed. Choice B does that in the form of nouns and gerund and hence is the answer
16 Nov 2010, 07:17
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B was a narrowed choice of mine, but I disregarded the choice because the list had "cultivation", "harvesting" and then "exploitation". Why do these not have to be parallel? I believe an explanation on this issue would help with a lot of my misunderstandings with SC.
