For thousands of years, humans have tamed the camel and

Question

For thousands of years, humans have tamed the camel and relied on  him carrying riders and scouting successfully for water sources in the dessert.
 
a.him carrying riders and scouting successfully for water sources in the dessert 
b.him carrying riders and scouting successfully for water sources in the desert 
c.him to carry riders and scout successfully for water sources in the dessert 
d.his carrying riders and scouting successfully for water sources in the desert 
e.his carrying of riders and scouting successfully of water sources in the dessert

GMATT73 · Answer

Rely on somebody to do something ... is the correct idiom

Choose C.

duttsit · Answer

GMATT73, I rely on your explanations to learn new SC tips

Bhai · Answer

I will go with B. 

First of all we need desert and not dessert. Also C cannot be right. Consider this

 humans have tamed the camel and relied on him  to carry riders and   scout successfully for water sources in the dessert  

If you take the underlined part out then the sentence does not make sense. relied on him scout successfully.

kdhong · Answer

I choose B. Like Bhai stated, it's desert not dessert. So B & E are left. Scouting for is preferable to scouting of.

duttsit · Answer

desert here is better than dessert while in real like I like the other way around

HIMALAYA · Answer

Hmmmmmmmm........... new question-good question. lets try....

Should be C. yes, the idiom is "rely on x to do y". "relied on his carrying" is correct but not "relied on him carrying". so A and B are not correct. 
E is also wrong because of "of". "for" is preffered over "of". 
D violets the idiom. 
so C is best...

nakib77 · Answer

one of the pronoun rules that I found is that

possesive pronoun+ing verb

that rules out A and B. becasue A and B is using objective pronoun.
D and E uses possesive +ing, but E uses Dessert instead of Desert.

So I am stuck with D and C.

on the exam day probably I will choose D.

ValleyBall1 · Answer

C appears to be the best choice out of the bunch...and it is the shortest answer. When you have to guess on test day, go for the shortest answer and hope the GMAT will reward you for brevity :lol:

christoph · Answer

OA is D)...possessive + gerund...

nakib77 · Answer

cool... looks like some time going against the wave works....

Folaa3 · Answer

Another reason why D is right is because the objective pronoun , him, in choices A, B and C makes it sound as if people tamed and relied on the same camel for thousands of years

hkm_gmat · Answer

But experts ,

Can we refer to animals possessive by HIS / HER ? 

I thought it would be ITS ??

Please advise

kami47 · Answer

D, dessert is something you eat after dinner. Tamed THE camel, so must use his for plural form. If you use him, sounds like only one camel has ever been tamed.

vc019 · Answer

Dessert and Desert... C is out 'coz of Desset. D is the only one.

yogi_d22 · Answer

I agree 'D' should be amswer in this case.

However, if I am modify the word "dessert" to "desert" in option "C", even C appears to be a right option.

Any suggestions are welcomed.

u2lover · Answer

picked D with no doubt... before reading the OA!!! Nobody relied on "him" so A B and C are out... rather, they relied on his carrying... his action and no the camel itself... b/w D and E, D is ||

shampoo · Answer

not my day

So D is correct because humans relied on camels function to carry ppl. not relied on camel. Tough questions today.

GMATT73 · Answer

What an embarrassing blunder

Still think option (C) would be best if dessert were changed to desert. Anyhow, (D) does work. What was I thinking??

For thousands of years, humans have tamed the camel and

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