Brutal SC#62

[humtum0]

62.
The failing of the book lies not in a lack of attention to scientific detail but in the depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world with emotional overtones that reduce the credibility of the work.

(A) depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world with emotional overtones that
(B) fact that it depicts marine world scenes of life and death as having emotional overtones that
(C) depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world, whose emotional overtones
(D) depiction of marine world scenes of life and death, which have emotional overtones and thus
(E) fact that it depicts scenes of life and death in the marine world, whose emotional overtones
Official Answer

SPOILER: ---------------------------- A ----------------------------

[LegoLife]

My answer is A.

(A) depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world with emotional overtones that
(B) fact that it depicts marine world scenes of life and death as having emotional overtones that
(C) depiction of scenes of life and death in the marine world, whose emotional overtones
(D) depiction of marine world scenes of life and death, which have emotional overtones and thus
(E) fact that it depicts scenes of life and death in the marine world, whose emotional overtones

[qwertzy]

We cannot have ambiguity in the "whose" (what do you call this? pronoun?) where we do not know whose refer to the life and death or to the marine world.
C and E are out.

D should not end with thus. Also, it has an ambiguous "which". Out.

That leaves A and B.
B loses out with the clumsy phrase "fact that it".

A wins.

[GMATcruiser]

A wins...

[powerthelogic]

A or C. i go for A . C - whose refers to ??