nlephuong Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led to the decline of regional dialects, language variations which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated by geographic isolation. (A) which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated (B) that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated © originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated (D) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated ( (E) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tieuphong Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I think D I think D will be a wise choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGameJames Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I'll go with B. originated and perpetuated are parallel. E's also parallel, but perpetuating by geographic isolation is not right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purenawaf Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 (A) which originate from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated originate should be parllel to perpetuated (B) that originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated Correct! © originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated Eliminating the relative pronoun eill make the second clause independent, unrelated to the previous one "comma-splice" (D) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated originating should be parllel to perpetuated ( (E) originating from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuating it sounds wrong, not sure why Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philospher57 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Which shoulb almost always followed by a comma ,at least on GMAT. Purenawaf nice explanation by u .Would be thankful if u would clarify choice "C" more -do u mean without "that" "originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated" would stand only for language variations & not for "regional dialects"Thanks in advance for giuiding me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purenawaf Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Philospher57. Choice C would be. language variations originated from diverse ethnic and cultural heritages and perpetuated geographic isolation. is an independent clause, it could be a sentence by itself. The first part is also an independent clause. You can't use a comma to seperate two independent clauses. You have to either seperate them by a semicolon, are ad a conjuection to create a subordinate clause. It would also be awkward, since the relation betwen the two parts is an clear, a conjuction is necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insead79 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 d gets it correct. others mix participles with conjugated verbs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da_Gr8_Mperor Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 (D) for me too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
800Bob Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 The correct response is D. B is not parallel. "Originated" is a verb (the simple past). "Perpetuated" is an adjective (past participle). D is parallel. "Originating" and "perpetuated" are both adjectives. The present participle "originating" is correct because the variations originate. The past participle "perpetuated" is correct because the variations don't perpetuate; they are perpetuated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amitg_ind Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I went for B initially but then after reading Bob's comment, agree with D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purenawaf Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 The correct response is D. B is not parallel. "Originated" is a verb (the simple past). "Perpetuated" is an adjective (past participle). D is parallel. "Originating" and "perpetuated" are both adjectives. The present participle "originating" is correct because the variations originate. The past participle "perpetuated" is correct because the variations don't perpetuate; they are perpetuated. Thanks Bob, you're insight was helpful. I agree with bob, the answer is D. choice D make it sound like geographic isolation perpetuated language variations. [geographic isolation] [perpetuated] [language variations] Subject Nominal Transitive Predicate Object choice B make it sound like language variations perpetuated by geographic isolation [language variations] [perpetuated] [by geographic isolation] Subject Nominal Intransitive Predicate Adverbial Modifying perpetuated The problem here is that "language variations" can not perpetuate, since perpetuate means: To cause to continue indefinitely; make perpetual. So it is a transitive verb, it has to have an object. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekybiz1 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I went for B too. But thanks for that explanation Bob, D is clearly correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mba.admission Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Thats a great point Bob !! I would never have got this correct. Thank you very much !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
700_ Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 "The increased popularity and availability of televisions has led" Shouldn't this be have led as it's popularity and availability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nlephuong Posted June 23, 2006 Author Share Posted June 23, 2006 OA is D. i went with B which seems to be parallel. I went for B but it was not correct. thanks for participating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerthelogic Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 I too went with B initially , After seeing Bob800 i agree with D . Can anyone of you please explain me by explaining how originating can act as adjective and perpetuated acts as adjective by giving examples . I would be very hrateful to them and thanks a lot in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stucco005 Posted June 23, 2006 Share Posted June 23, 2006 Hey guys check out this link to learn how you can answer these types of questions correctly: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_verbals.html See the participle section Summary: A participle is nothing more than a verbal adjective, most of the time ending in -ing or -ed. What do adjectives do? They only can modify nouns and pronouns. Heres an example of participle usage: Borimir, running from the orcs, blew his great horn. In this sentace, "Borimir" is the subject and "blew" is the verb. Note that running is not a verb, but rather an adjective. Again, what do adjectives do? Modify Nouns/Pronouns. So what is "running" modifing here? The noun "Borimir" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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