[Unhappy_Demon]

Originally Posted by jigar_p_civil

i didnt understand what u want to tell can u copy,paste that post in this reply so..............

Biologist wala SC

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/englis...ml#post1299220 (Sentence Correction for CAT 2008)

[Unhappy_Demon]

Originally Posted by Unhappy_Demon

try this ...

Biologists working in Spain say that their discovery of teeming life in a highly acidic river may not only broaden the search for life, or for evidence of past life, no other planets but also show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria.


A. show that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria

B. may show that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest ones

C. shows a number of forms of microscopic life to be capable to adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria

D. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life is capable of adapting to conditions that scientists have long thought had been hostile to all but the hardiest bacteria

E. showing that a number of forms of microscopic life can adapt to conditions that scientists have long thought hostile to all bacteria but the hardiest

OA is A

.....not only broaden but also show .....

[Unhappy_Demon]

try this...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities

(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities

(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

[shashank3012]

Originally Posted by Unhappy_Demon

try this...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities

(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities

(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

my take
option (D)

[Unhappy_Demon]

Originally Posted by Unhappy_Demon

try this...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities

(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities

(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities

(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

..OA is D


called for X and for Y

[shashank3012]

Originally Posted by Unhappy_Demon

..OA is B

.....called for urban apartment houses that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities .........

called for X and for Y

yeah,i was confused between B and D.
i think,here,i assumed that,there would be child care facilities included in urban houses and,communal .... in suburbs.

the "to include" phrase is important,it seems.

[Unhappy_Demon]

Originally Posted by shashank3012

yeah,i was confused between B and D.
i think,here,i assumed that,there would be child care facilities included in urban houses and,communal .... in suburbs.

the "to include" phrase is important,it seems.

My apology

OA is D indeed.

"with" suits here as per D....you were perfect.

B,D are contending here...i missed D .....i reviewed again.

>>suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities ....this is fine as per (D)

i am sorry for the mistake.

[vivekkahn]

Originally Posted by Unhappy_Demon

try this...
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities.

(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

My take is D...

[Unhappy_Demon]

Crack this....

Being a United States citizen since 1988 and born in Calcutta in 1940, author Bharati Mukherjee has lived in England and Canada, and first came to the United States in 1961 to study at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.


(A) Being a United States citizen since 1988 and born in Calcutta in 1940, author Bharati Mukherjee has
(B) Having been a United States citizen since 1988, she was born in Calcutta in 1940; author Bharati Mukherjee
(C) Born in Calcutta in 1940, author Bharati Mukherjee became a United States citizen in 1988; she has
(D) Being born in Calcutta in 1940 and having been a United States citizen since 1988, author Bharati Mukherjee
(E) Having been born in Calcutta in 1940 and being a United States citizen since 1988, author Bharati Mukherjee.

[racer_jo]

I'll go with D.. though C was close....
Plz post the correct answer...

Regards,
racer_jo