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The animals in the comprehensive study on migration in Africa ranged from the smallest ones that can be collared — pocket mice — up to the largest elephants.
A. up to the largest elephants
B. up to the largest, which are elephants
C. up to the largest of elephants
D. to elephants, the largest
E. to the largest, elephants
A. up to the largest elephants
B. up to the largest, which are elephants
C. up to the largest of elephants
D. to elephants, the largest
E. to the largest, elephants
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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:
With so little underlined, you must carefully analyze every little decision point. The most prominent choice is the difference between “up to” and “to” at the beginning of each answer. The correct idiomatic expression is “range from X to Y” and the use of “up” in (A), (B), and (C) is redundant and incorrect: the word “from” in the correct expression already implies “up.” These answers are similar to ones in other problems containing the incorrect expression “more…compared to.” By using “more” you already know it’s being “compared”! It should be “more…than”. By starting with “range from” you already know it is going “up” to something, so you should only have “to.”
In choosing between (D) and (E) – and this can help you to eliminate (A) and (C) also if you struggle to see the redundancy discussed above – focus on parallelism and meaning. As is often the case, the slash-and-burn technique helps you to see the core goal of the sentence: the animals ranged from the smallest ones (pocket mice) to the largest (ones), elephants. (A), (B), and (D) all incorrectly start with the smallest animals (after which the specific type of animal is given) and link that directly to the specific animal type “elephants.” This is not parallel and (D) in particular flip-flops the presentation in the first part of the expression – it cannot be “ranged from the smallest animals to elephants, the largest” (E) creates a logical, parallel sentence, but with a structure that is confusing to people: first the noun phrase “ones that can be collared” is understood after “largest”, and then the appositive modifier “elephants” shows that they are the largest animals. In the first part, dashes are used to offset “pocket mice” instead of a comma (as is the case with “elephants”) because of the modifying clause after animals, and as a result the structures in (E) are perfectly parallel.
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