Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal

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 and 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 the 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

Neochronic · Answer

one more for B..

All the noun phrases shud be parallel..

cultivation, harvesting of, exploitation..

moreover, like is wrong.. when giving examples..

skim · Answer

Agreed that (B) is most parallel in structure, however my only concern is that (B) states "harvesting fish and   seafood  ...." - wouldn't "seafood" change the original meaning of the sentence, "harvesting of fish and   shellfish  " instead? 
Can shellfish be equated with seafood?

krishireddy · Answer

The Correct usage here is Such as . That brings down my options to option B and D. However in option D Parallelism is not maintained hence eliminating D. I would prefer Option B which uses Such as and maintains parallelism cultivation,harvesting and exploitation. In Option B, am skeptical regarding the usage of "such crops as" as opposed to usage of "crops such as" . Isnt Such as an Idiom?? Can we insert word in between such and as?

Wud appreciate ur clarification:-)

rs2010 · Answer

Not necessary you might have seen such words as, such a difficult task as.... all are correct usage.

skim · Answer

The OA is B.

Agreed that (B) is most parallel in structure, however my only concern is that (B) states "harvesting fish and  seafood ...." - would "seafood" change the original meaning of the sentence, "harvesting of fish and  shellfish " ? 
Can shellfish be equated with seafood? or would the change from "shellfish" to "seafood" be acceptable, since (B) is grammatically correct?

Thanks

Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal

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