Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a larg

Question: Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms
No... "resembled" = past tense. Does it no longer look like the silkworm?

(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms
Yes.... "consumed" = actively being eaten. "resembling" = currently resembling the silk worm.

(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
No.... "that" = referring back to the caterpillar or the worm?

(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms
No... "it" = only one resembles the silk worm, or the entire whole?

(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
No... "that" unnecessary; what is it referring back to? The Caterpillar or the worm?

Correct Answer: B

Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

Meaning:

1. the mopane worm - Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa
2. the mopane worm - a large caterpillar that:
- consumed by millions of Africans and
- looks like silkworms
3. the mopane worm - are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

Errors:

'and' parallelism marker, what comes after and before needs to be parallel.
we have 'that' clause after 'and' but don't have 'that' one before 'and' hece, this structure is incorrect.

Issue about SV agreement, verb 'are' and subject 'the mopane worm' are in non-underlined part of the sentence, so we cannot change it, and need to take it as it is.
Question source is non-official, I think we don't get such questions in official test.
Or unless, 'the' before the 'mopane worm' lets us consider 'them' as a whole group'... but in this case we also need singular subject...
Nevermind, we will wait for OE

POE

Tis question tests parallelism, so let's look at each answer choice separately, and examine form parallelism standpoint.

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms

(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms
Seems good enough, consumed // to resembling.
both of them plays same role and fucntions - as ajective - describes worm

for more about v-ed and v-ing //-ism, please read here ---->

(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
this structure is awful, that is = that are - is incorrect, should be same verb singular-singular or plural-plural, as they both modifying the same noun

(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms
it - antecedent? there is no parallelism at all

(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
that - error, no parallelism


B is the answer

Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

With and sighted, we have to look for parallelism in the underlined part.

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms
There is no that in the first item

(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms
item 1 & 2 are phrases and parallel

(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
item 1 is a clause & item 2 is a phrase. Not parallel

(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms
item 1 has that and item 2 doesn't have

(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
item 2 has that and item 1 doesn't have

Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

This sentence tests your knowledge of modifier and parallelism
(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms-Incorrect. consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms are both modifiers modifying the noun large caterpillar. however; Their structure isn't parallel. we don't really need the pronoun that.
(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms - Correct. lets keep this. consumed by millions of Africans is a verb ed modifier and resembling silkworms is a verb- ing modifer. as per the rules of modifier, a verb ed modifier can very well be parallel to a verb - ing modifier. Hence this sentence maintains the parallel structure.
(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms- Incorrect. is consumed is a verb and resembling silkworms is a verb ing modifier. this distorts the parallelism
(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms- Incorrect .the structure here must be that is consumed and that resembles silkworms. it is unnecessary as we already know what is being modified
(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms- Incorrect. that is unnecessary and distorts the parallelism between two modifers

The 2 descriptions of the Mopane worm, viz., consumption by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms, should be parallel. However, the usage of 'that' introduces a parallelism error.

Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms - Wrong as discussed above

(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms - Correct

(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms - Non-parallel list. Instead of 'that, resembling', it should be 'that resembles'

(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms - Non-parallel list. Instead of 'it', it should be 'that'

(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms - Non-parallel list. Instead of 'that, resembling', it should be 'resembling'

Native to the warmer parts of southern Africa, the mopane worm, a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms, are often canned in tomato sauce or chili sauce to enhance flavor.

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms.Incorrect.conumed by millions and resembled silkworms are verb-ed modifiers modifying a large caterpillar but ,"that' before resembled distort the parallel structure.

(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms .Correct.Verb ed modifier 'consumed by millions" and verb -ing modifier "resembling silkworms" are both parallel describing "a large caterpillar'

(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms.Incorrect." is consumed " is a verb and " resembling silkworm" is a verb -ing modifier which distorts the parallelism structure.


(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms.Incorrect."it" is unnecessarily introduced.

(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms .Incorrect." that " can easily be omitted to maintain the parallel structure of both the verb-ed and verb ing modifier.

"a large caterpillar consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms," is an appositive and appositive doesn't make complete sense.

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms
Improper appositive ("that resembled silkworms" can stand on its own).

(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms
Doesn't have any error..............................Correct Answer.


(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
This option will distort the meaning of the sentence (improper appositive) + SVA error (...that, resembling silkworms are..).


(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms
Meaning of sentence is distorted with this option (improper appositive) + SVA error (...it resembles silkworms are...).


(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms
This option will distort the meaning of the sentence (improper appositive) + SVA error (...that, resembling silkworms are...).


ANSWER :B

Error Analysis: 'that resembled' gives a wrong meaning by saying that 'mopane worm' once resembled 'silkworms', but not anymore. Intended meaning is to say 'Mopane Worm is a large caterpillar and it resembles silk worms. We need verb+ing modifier 'resembling'

(A) consumed by millions of Africans and that resembled silkworms - Incorrect, for the reasons stated in the error analysis
(B) consumed by millions of Africans and resembling silkworms- Correct
(C) that is consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms - Incorrect, its unclear as what exactly 'that' is doing in the sentence. Further, modifier 'resembling' which is modifying 'caterpillar' is placed incorrectly.
(D) that is consumed by millions of Africans and it resembles silkworms - Incorrect, usage of 'it' is redundant.
(E) consumed by millions of Africans and that, resembling silkworms - Incorrect, same issue with 'that' as seen in C.

Ans: B

daagh sir..How we can use are with singular subject ?

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Rishi
Yes! You are correct. The subject namely "the worm" is singular. You see it is said to be "a large caterpillar". One can dismiss all the choices by that S-V error alone. This thread has already run 73 postings and your are the first to point out the error, I suppose. Great!!

Sometimes we tend to miss the forest for the tree.

Is my understanding that a verb-ing modifier and a verb-ed modifier can both be in parallel?

yes, as long as both are modifiers. That means, a verb-ing as part of a verbal phrase and as a gerund as well as 'verb-ed' as a past tense are excluded from the ambit.


Let's also appreciate that while they can be structurally parallel, they may not be logically parallel ( all the times) depending upon the context.



Here the modifiers 'starting' and 'intercepted', though technically are parallel, do not convey any sense because of a dangling modification. Per se, the river systems themselves , though starting with Tamiraparani , are not intercepted by many other river systems; each river system is a disparate system of its own and it does not intercept other river systems.

Here, the following version would be more accurate.



Hope I am not more confusing after all.

I'd like to know if "resembling" acts as a verb instead of a modifier in option B?

Both consumed and resembling are participles (modifiers) in option B.

"is" is the verb.

the key is to notice that that consumed is not parallel with resembled.

the subject is moping worm, consumed is a verb-ed modifier because the "doer" of consumed is not the worm. So in order to be parallel be must use a word that is nor a verb but a modifier. That is resembling.

B

Here, how consumed and resembling are parallel?