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Indus civilization was either in decline when it was

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Indus civilization was either in decline when it was destroyed by Aryan invaders from the northwest speaking an Indo-European language from which most of the languages of Pakistan, Northern India, and Bangladesh descend or that it was militarily vulnerable.

A. that it was militarily vulnerable.
B. had militarily vulnerability.
C. was militarily vulnerable.
D. militarily vulnerable.
E. was it militarily vulnerable.

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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   30 Jul 2009, 15:57
D- parallelism... indus civilization was either in blah blah or militarily vulnerable.
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   30 Jul 2009, 19:50
Will go with D


A has 2 issues IMO - "it" is ambiguous;
that is a restrictive clause.

Other options have tense issue

OA pls
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   30 Jul 2009, 20:09
no body for E?

I go for E ...

either "verb" or "verb" --> either in decline or was it
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   30 Jul 2009, 23:15
guys i have a confusion here:
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shud it not be C, which states "Indus civilization was either in......or was militarily vulnerable."
Is this not parallelism?

though in the actual test i wud have gone with D.
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   30 Jul 2009, 23:27
I go D for parallelism
either X or Y => where X & Y are parallel
No other option is parallel
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   31 Jul 2009, 01:09
OA is given as D.
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   31 Jul 2009, 01:14
nipun25dixit wrote:
guys i have a confusion here:
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shud it not be C, which states "Indus civilization was either in......or was militarily vulnerable."
Is this not parallelism?

though in the actual test i wud have gone with D.

"either" is followed by the phrase "in danger", no verb, so in order to retain parallelism after "or" it is suficient to use phrase "military vulnerable" without any verb.
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Re: Indus civilization was either in decline when it was [#permalink] Indus civilization was either in decline when it was   31 Jul 2009, 01:46
I would go with D.

'either' begins after 'was'. hence it is understood that 'was' needs not be repeated.



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