Unlike other primates, which are born with fully formed craniums,

Question

Unlike other primates, which are born with  fully formed craniums, a newborn human baby’s cranium  consists of eight bones that take years to fuse together fully, allowing the brain to grow much larger during those early years.

A. fully formed craniums, a newborn human baby’s cranium
B. fully formed craniums, newborn human babies have craniums that
C. a fully formed craniums, a human baby’s cranium
D. fully formed craniums, a human is born with a cranium that
E. a fully formed cranium, the cranium of a newborn human baby

RaguramanS · Accepted Answer

Unlike other primates, which are born with fully formed craniums, a newborn human baby’s cranium consists of eight bones that take years to fuse together fully, allowing the brain to grow much larger during those early years.

The options prompts to make quick choices among different entities. So it's a must to understand what entities are really compared.

Meaning
The primates which are born with craniums is compared eith humans which see born with different premature craniums.
The comparing entities are primates and human

A. fully formed craniums, a  newborn human baby’s cranium 
Primates are compared with newborn human baby's cranium 
B. fully formed craniums,  newborn human babies  have craniums that
Primates are compared with newborn human babies. Logicallly only a baby can be compared with another baby, but here all primates are compared with new born human babies. So it changes the intended meaning and comparing entities.
C. a fully formed craniums, a  human baby’s cranium 
Primates are compared with human baby's cranium illogical
D. fully formed craniums, a human is born with a cranium that
The comparing entities are primates and human. Logical and structure of the sentence is parallel.
E. a fully formed cranium,  the cranium  pof a newborn human baby
All primates are compared with craniums. Illogical

Option D

sobby · Answer

A , C, E is out -modifier issue 
Between B and D 
D is better ...
Unlike other primates,  which are born with fully formed craniums ,  a human is born with a cranium that  consists of eight bones that take years to fuse together fully, allowing the brain to grow much larger during those early years.

Nunuboy1994 · Answer

Well it's also that newborn human babies cannot take "consists" since it is a plural subject

arvind910619 · Answer

The answer is D 
We should note the singular verb in the non underlined part of the sentence so we have to use a singular subject on this basis alone we can eliminate B 
Now two entities are compared in the sentence fro their craniums and the two entities are " other primates" and "a human baby " 
So we can reject A ,C E so the only choice remaining is D which has correct S_V agreement and correct parallelism .

Rv7622 · Answer

A C and E all compare ‘primates’ with ‘craniums’. So all of these three are out. B makes a similar error by comparing ‘primates’ with ‘newborn human babies’.
 
The only possible answer is D.

AkshdeepS · Answer

Comparison is between "other primates and human".

Relative clause "which are born..." is a modifier". So we are not comparing it.

A. fully formed craniums, a newborn human baby’s cranium

Comparing "other primates and baby's cranium". WRONG

B. fully formed craniums, newborn human babies have craniums that

Though "other primates can be compared with new born human babies", if the meaning allows, the issue here is SV disagreement between Craniums (SUBJECT) and Consists (VERB).
 
C. a fully formed craniums, a human baby’s cranium

Comparing "Other primates and craniums" WRONG.

D. fully formed craniums, a human is born with a cranium that

CORRECT

E. a fully formed cranium, the cranium of a newborn human baby

Comparing "Other primates and craniums" WRONG.

Doer01 · Answer

Hi,

Unlike other primates,......., must be followed by an entity that could be compared to primates 
 consists of eight bones that take years to fuse together fully, allowing the brain to grow much larger during those early years.

Only B & D have a comparable entity, newborn human babies and a human respectively.
 
B. fully formed craniums, newborn human babies have craniums that: Although the use of newborn babies (plural) makes it look good, use of craniums gives it away since the verb,consists, that follows is in non underlined portion & is singular.

D. fully formed craniums, a human is born with a cranium that: Correct.

Gknight5603 · Answer

hello,
in option D ...primates is plural but a human is singular.... isn't it wrong....only singular nouns are compared with singular nouns??

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NabilSaleem · Answer

between 'a fully formed' and 'fully formed' both are correct or 'fully formed' is correct?

ravigupta2912 · Answer

A. fully formed craniums, a newborn human baby’s cranium -- Primate is compared to cranium. Incorrect.
B. fully formed craniums, newborn human babies have craniums that -- "newborn" and "babies' redundant.
C. a fully formed craniums, a human baby’s cranium -- same as A.
D. fully formed craniums, a human is born with a cranium that -- Correct.
E. a fully formed cranium, the cranium of a newborn human baby -- same as A.

KeyurJoshi · Answer

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Gknight5603 · Answer

Thanks for the reply...
so there is no rule that plural cant be compared with singular.

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