Thursday, May 03, 2007

SC's Question number - 895 , 896

895). Unlike most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warbler are very difficult to tell apart .

(A) Unlike most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warbler are very difficult to tell apart.


(B) Unlike most warbler species, the gender of the blue-winged warbler is very difficult to distinguish.

(C) Unlike those in most warbler species, the male and female blue-winged warblers are very difficult to distinguish.

(D) It is very difficult, unlike in most warbler species, to tell the male and female blue-winged warbler apart.

(E) Blue-winged warblers are unlike most species of warbler in that it is very difficult to tell the male and female apart.


896). Unlike other arachnids, which have their nerve cells evenly distributed along their bodies, the scorpion's nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's .

(A) bodies, the scorpion's nerve cells are clustered in its head, like a mammal's

(B) bodies, the scorpion's head had a cluster of nerve cells, as a mammal does

(C) body, the scorpion has a cluster of nerve cells in its head, as a mammal does

(D) body, nerve cells are clustered in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's

(E) body, a cluster of nerve cells is in the scorpion's head, like a mammal's


Answers:

895). OA - E.


A - incorrect - compares blue-winged warbler to other warbler species

B - incorrect - compares most warbler species to the gender of the blue-winged warbler

C - incorrect - antecedent of those not clear - Further correct idioms are distinguish X from Y
distinguish between X and Y
tell X and Y apart

D - incorrect - modifier error - unlike in most warbler species incorrectly modifies difficult

896). OA - C

A, B, D, E - incorrect - compares arachnids to scorpion's head/the scorpion's body


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