While working at Zoo, Michelle saw a monkey, climbing a tree and carrying a baby.
(1) Michelle saw a monkey, climbing a tree and carrying a baby. -- says Michelle climbing a tree ; incorrect modifier
(2) Michelle saw a monkey, climbing a tree and that carried a baby. -- same as A; incorrect modifier
(3) Michelle, carrying a baby, saw a monkey climbing a tree. -- grammatically correct but meaning differs from intended
(4) Michelle saw a monkey climbing a tree and carrying a baby. -- climbing and carrying correctly refers to monkey ; OA
(5) Michelle saw a monkey with a baby, climbing a tree. -- Again Climbing refers to Michelle , incorrect modifier

As per concise sentence structure , D seems to be correct.

As per meaning C seems to be correct.
confused

other options have modifier/reference issue.
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[quote="Abhishek009"]Will go with (D)

(C) changes the intended meaning of the sentence though grammatically correct , it states that Michelle was carrying a baby , but the original sentence tries to state that the monkey was carrying a baby.

Will love to know the OE for this one... [/quote}


yes you are right, initially i thought Michelle was carrying a baby and she saw monkey climbing the tree.

assuming that GMAt sentences are not just ordinary , I will go with D because Michelle was working in the zoo ......she should't be carrying the baby
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+1 for D.

Michelle saw a monkey climbing a tree and carrying a baby.
Perfect parallelism.(Climbing and Carrying)
Perfect meaning.(Michelle saw monkey climbing..)
No ambiguity.
Concise.

While working at Zoo, Michelle saw a monkey, climbing a tree and carrying a baby.

(A) Michelle saw a monkey, climbing a tree and carrying a baby.
(B) Michelle saw a monkey, climbing a tree and that carried a baby.
(C) Michelle, carrying a baby, saw a monkey climbing a tree.
(D) Michelle saw a monkey climbing a tree and carrying a baby. - Correct
(E) Michelle saw a monkey with a baby, climbing a tree.
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Dear shonakshi
I'm happy to respond.

My friend, once again, I am going to ask you to spell out explicitly what you understand and what you do not understand about this question, in accordance with this blog article:
Asking Excellent Questions
I will also say that this is a self-made question by a user, so it is not the highest quality question. This is not a particularly GMAT-like question in a variety of ways.

Does all this make sense?
Mike
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I agree with mikemcgarry.

I admire the effort to produce verbal quesions. That say, is a lot more difficult to craft verbal ones than quant ones.

However, you should be really careful especially with the tags. They identify unequivocally a question when a student performs a search on the board. As such, this is not a medium/upper level i.e. 600/700 level. So we need to be careful when tagging a question.

Thank you for your collaboration.

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