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A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates
(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   14 Apr 2013, 01:21
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A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates
(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates


A)
- Idiom: "associated both with" is incorrect. Correct form should be "associated with …".
- Idiom: Correct use of “both” is “both A and B”. It is incorrect to say “both A and, in addition, B”
- Two verbs “has been found” and “indicates” are connected using comma + and -- this is incorrect.
- Sentence does not make sense. The sentence implies that not the fact of association but the skull itself indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought

B)
- Idiom: "associated both with" is incorrect. Correct form should be "associated with …".
- S-V disagreement: “a skull” is singular and “have been found” is plural.
- Modifier issue: “which” is modifying “Eritrea” whereas, according to the intended meaning, “which” should refer to the fact of association.

C) Correct. Here singular subject "a skull" is referred by singular verb "has been". Idioms "associated with" and “both A and B” are used correctly. There is no incorrect modifier.

D)
- There is no main verb and the whole sentence is a fragment.

E)
- S-V disagreement: “a skull” is singular and “have been found” is plural.
- Modifier issue: “which” is modifying “Eritrea” whereas, according to the intended meaning, “which” should refer to the fact of association.

Correct answer is C.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   14 Apr 2013, 01:18
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Correct Answer should be C

A) redundant use of in addition. Incorrect usage associated both with x and y. Independent clause and indicates………… is creating confusion. It should logically modify the whole preceding clause, but in this case it tends to modify only skull

B) (Plural) have does not agree with singular subject skull. Incorrect usage associated both with x and y. No clear referent for which

C) Correct Choice. S-V agreement followed. Correct Usage associated with both x and y. Conversion of second independent clause in to a modifier indicating that ………… corrects the error made in choice A. It clearly modifies the whole preceding clause and expresses the consequences of discovery.

D) Sentence Fragment Error. No verb in the whole sentence

E) Incorrect for the same reasons sited in Choice B

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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   14 Apr 2013, 01:43
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(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates ---- both and in addition is unparallel as per norms of correlative conjunction and hence, wrong;

(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates ---The plural ‘ have been found’ does not go in tandem with the singular ‘skull’ . parallelism of correlative conjunction ‘both--- and” has gone astray - wrong

(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating --- The above errors have been amended and is the correct choice.

(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating --- This is an awful fragment

(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates --- 1. S V error ; 2. wrong modification of 'which'
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   25 May 2017, 02:50
daagh wrote:
A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates
(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates




Hello sir, I will appear in GMAT on september 1st 2017, I am not good with verbals. As you are experienced , so can u please help me by step by step ways by which i can at least score 38 in verbals...Currently my verbal score is 20. I mess up a lot in SC and RC.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   25 May 2017, 03:01
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daagh wrote:
A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates
(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates



Hello sir, I will appear in GMAT on september 1st 2017, I am not good with verbals. As you are experienced , so can u please help me by step by step ways by which i can at least score 38 in verbals...Currently my verbal score is 20. I mess up a lot in SC and RC.


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A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   10 May 2019, 04:25
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A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates
(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates


Use idiom :- Both X and Y.
Option A and B can be eliminated. Both "with Homo erectus and in addition " violates the "Both X and Y" principle. Same error is in B.
Left with C , D , E.
E uses wrong "have been" for singular "skull". Also "which" indicates "Eritrea".
D does not have a working verb.

C is correct.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   03 Nov 2019, 23:02
daagh wrote:
A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates
(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates
(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating
(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates

sir i have a doubt that how has been is correct as its was found in past but has been means that finding is still continue and will continue in future....Please help me as soon as possible
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   04 Nov 2019, 02:08
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'Has been' is used for something started in the near past and still continuing now. Since this discovery is still being discussed, it has relevance to the present.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   04 Nov 2019, 03:31
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'Has been' is used for something started in the near past and still continuing now. Since this discovery is still being discussed, it has relevance to the present.

but this sentence is simply saying has been found its not talking about our discussion. And i think something is found once only not for a time period secondly it is not something that its effect is still continued.....
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   01 Jan 2020, 05:46
A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits is this singular or plural? I can see only C stands out.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   01 Jan 2020, 07:01
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"Found" as a past particples does not refer to tense. The tense comes from the verb of the clause. Examples:
1. Plenty of oil has been found off-shore in India -- Now can we argue, all that oil has vanished now?
2. Since the past couple of years, several evidences found in Africa indicate that Africans are the first human being. Especially archeological findings are ever-evolving, dynamic facts. There is no finiteness in that science.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2020, 20:44
A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.

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(A) both with Homo erectus and, in addition, Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, and indicates

the use of " in addition " is redundant. A is out.
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(B) both with Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates

A one-million-year-old skull .... has been found . Subject verb agreement fails.
B is out.
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(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating

Subject verb agreement is fine. indicating modifies traits . Clean sentence.
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(D) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens and found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating

and found is not OK.
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(E) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, which indicates

Subject verb agreement fails. have been is used instead of has been.
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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   09 Oct 2020, 08:21
Even if we are not aware of this particular idiom it can be solved via verb tense
Only option A and C uses verb Has: singular : required for "A one-million-year-old skull ".
Option B,D,E uses have, Hence incorrect

Option A , in addition makes it run-on sentence.
Only clear option is C

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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   09 Oct 2020, 09:07
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Option A , in addition makes it run-on sentence.

Thought I would mention that A is not a run-on sentence.

A run-on sentence is when the sentence comprises two Independent clauses connected by just a comma. That's not the case with A.

A has an issue with parallelism (the correct structure is with both X and Y, and not both with X and Y).

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Re: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated both [#permalink] New post   05 Dec 2020, 09:10
Hi GMATGuruNY

Could you please help with this question?

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(C) with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating


The timeframe of "comma + V_ing" must be the same as that of the nearest action and its agent. Yet, the skull "has been found" (in the past) although its effect has something to do with present: the timeframe is in the past. And the timeframe of "comma + indicating" is also in the past accordintg to the rule of "comma+V_ing". Yet, from the context, "indicating" seems to be in the present: The skull should still indicate something.

I mean that from the context, the verb, "has been found", took place in th past and "indicating" is in the present. Yet, according to the rule of "comma + V_ing", the timeframes must be the same.

Could you explain why "comma + V_ing" is correct in (C)?

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Could you explain why "comma + V_ing" is correct in (C)?


OA: A one-million-year-old skull bearing traits associated with both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens has been found in the Afar region of Eritrea, indicating that modern humans developed much earlier than previously thought.
Here, the blue VERBing action is concurrent with the preceding present perfect action in green.
Both actions happened in the past but affect the present.
Even though the act of indicating happened in the past, it affects our knowledge in the present: because of this action, we now know that humans developed much earlier than previously thought.
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