Keeping the nose of her kayak directly into the wind

Question

Keeping the nose of her kayak directly into the wind, she paddled fiercely toward the safety of the harbor  through the seeming endless waves, each of those larger than the last .

(A) through the seeming endless waves, each of those larger than the last.
(B) through the seeming endless waves, each larger than the last.
(C) through the seemingly endless waves, each of those larger than the last.
(D) through the seemingly endless waves, each larger than the last.
(E) through waves that seemingly have no end, each larger than the last.

14101992 · Answer

Keeping the nose of her kayak directly into the wind, she paddled fiercely toward the safety of the harbor  through the seeming endless waves, each of those larger than the last.

(A) through the  seeming  endless waves,  each of those  larger than the last. (adjective 'seemingly' should be used) 
(B) through the  seeming  endless waves, each larger than the last. (adjective 'seemingly' should be used) 
(C) through the seemingly endless waves,  each of those  larger than the last.
(D) through the seemingly endless waves, each larger than the last. (best choice)
(E) through waves  that seemingly have no end , each larger than the last. (changes the meaning)

sobby · Answer

A-Seeming is wrong , we need adverb
B- same as A
C-keep
D-keep
E- Modifier error

Between C and D ..D is more concise..hence D.

varun4s · Answer

Keeping the nose of her kayak directly into the wind, she paddled fiercely toward the safety of the harbor  through the seeming endless waves, each of those larger than the last.

(A) through the  seeming  endless waves, each of those larger than the last.  (Need adverb seemingly instead of seeming) 
(B) through the  seeming  endless waves, each larger than the last.  (Same as A) 
(C) through the seemingly endless waves, each of those larger than the last.  (Wordy) 
(D) through the seemingly endless waves, each larger than the last.  (Correct) 
(E) through waves that  seemingly have no end , each larger than the last.  (Changes the meaning of the original sentence)

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VKat · Answer

In option d, seemingly (adverb) modifies endless waves which is noun, it should modify verb , could you please tell me how option d is correct?

GMATNinja · Answer

In this case, the adverb "seemingly" modifies the adjective "endless" -- not "waves." And that's not a problem at all: you can always use an adverb to modify an adjective.

Mo2men · Answer

Dear Charles,

Is usage of 'each of those' correct? I think each is enough to refer to 'waves'.

What do you think?

GMATNinja · Answer

Yeah, I agree with you in this case. "Each of those" seems redundant to me in this example: "... through the seemingly endless waves, each of the waves larger than the last." It's not grammatically wrong, exactly, but it seems like a waste of words.

sevenplusplus · Answer

Can GMAT throw an option which is "correct" and just a little wordy ( a couple of redundant words)? 
There has to be, in my view, more reason than just wordiness for C to be not a correct choice.

GMATNinja · Answer

I think that the GMAT draws a distinction between redundancy and wordiness. I actually agree with you in general: "wordiness" isn't, by itself, a very compelling reason to eliminate an answer choice. In most official questions, there's something stronger than "wordiness" that allows you to eliminate the wrong answer choices. (And yes, I know that the OG explanations often dismiss wrong answers as just "wordy" or "wordy and awkward." But the OG explanations are notoriously lazy, and weren't written by the same people who wrote the questions. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you can find a better reason for the elimination than just "wordiness". And I'd also argue that tons of right answers are pretty darned wordy... but that's not helpful.

) But redundancy is a different thing. If something is repeated unnecessarily, that's just wrong on the GMAT. There are official questions that squeeze the phrases "last year" and "annually" into the same sentence -- that's always wrong. There's another question that uses the phrase "has the ability to" and "to be able to" in the same sentence. That's unambiguously wrong, too. To be fair, this (non-official!) question probably blurs the line a little bit between "wordiness" and "redundancy." If the ONLY difference between (C) and (D) is a couple of unnecessary words, I guess I'll always pick the one that doesn't have those unnecessary words. But official GMAT questions will usually give you something meatier to work with.

daagh · Answer

Just one more angle to what Ninja has said reg: each of those". Herein, 'those' refers to the object of the preposition 'through' and therefore we need an object pronoun 'them' rather than the demonstrative subject pronoun 'those'.

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

D. You probably first noticed that the underlined portion of this sentence-correction question contains a modification error. Adjectives like seeming modify nouns and pronouns. They can’t modify other adjectives like endless. Adverbs must be used for that. Instead of seeming, you can use the adverb seemingly. Therefore, you know you can disregard Choice (A). You can also eliminate Choice (B) because it doesn’t make the change to seemingly. Choices (C), (D), and (E) change seeming to seemingly.

This underlined portion also has a problem with redundancy. Each refers sufficiently to waves; of those isn’t necessary. Choice (C) doesn’t fix this error, so it’s wrong. Choices (D) and (E) both fix each of the errors, but Choice (E) creates another. The sentence is past tense, so the verb have should be in past tense like this: seemingly had no end. Choice (D) corrects both original errors and doesn’t introduce more, so it’s the correct answer.

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