Re: Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a larg
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22 Jul 2019, 20:38
Original sentence: Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, is often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.
(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms
In this choice, the noun large caterpillar is modified by both a noun modifier consumed by millions of Africans and a that-clause that resembled silkworms. However, this is clearly an error in parallelism, as a noun modifier and a that-clause cannot be parallel. (A) is out.
(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms
CORRECT ANSWER. The noun large caterpillar is modified by a noun-modifier consumed by millions of Africans and another noun-modifier resembling silkworms. Both noun modifiers are parallel.
(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
The noun large caterpillar is modified by both a that-clause that is consumed by millions of Africans and another that-clause that, resembling silkworms, is often canned.... However, the main subject mopane worm clearly misses a verb here, i.e. the verb is. Thus, (C) is gone.
(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms
The parallelism isn't right in (D).The phrase that follows "and" is a brand-new clause: it resembles silkworms. That can't possibly be correct here, since it resembles silkworms is not parallel to that is consumed by millions of Africans. Besides, the underlined portion is part of a modifier, and I have no idea why we would stick a full, independent clause inside that modifier. Eliminate (D).
(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
The noun large caterpillar is modified by both a noun-modifier consumed by millions of Africans and a that-clause that, resembling silkworms, is often canned.... This is clearly an error in parallelism, as a noun-modifier and a that-clause cannot be parallel. In addition, the main subject mopane worm also misses a verb here. Thus, (E) is definitely wrong.
ANSWER IS (B)