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04 Jun 2009, 03:40
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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
(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
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04 Jun 2009, 06:15
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one more for B..
All the noun phrases shud be parallel..
cultivation, harvesting of, exploitation..
moreover, like is wrong.. when giving examples..
All the noun phrases shud be parallel..
cultivation, harvesting of, exploitation..
moreover, like is wrong.. when giving examples..
04 Jun 2009, 06:24
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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?
Can shellfish be equated with seafood?
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