The below sentence is very confusing to me, not sure how to approach POE here
Sentence:
In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting East African cave paintings.
(A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
(B) Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and by painstakingly documenting
(C) Leakey was a contributor to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and with her painstaking documentation of
(D) Leakey’s contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of
(E) Leakey’s contributions to archaeology include discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of
Please help!
D,E out : Modifier issue, Should be Mary leakey and not Mary leakey’s Contribution.
Then parallelism in issue in A and B : discovery of … and … documenting …
C best : Mary leakey + discovery of …. and documentation of …
What is OA ?
(A) Leakey contributed to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting —– relating her work on the Miocene hominid fossil record with Mary leaky (wrong comparison) and documenting is wrongly used
(B) Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and by painstakingly documenting — Same as A
(C) Leakey was a contributor to archaeology with her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and with her painstaking documentation of —Wrong comparison( Work with herself)
(D) Leakey’s contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and her painstaking documentation of — Correct comparison and parallelism.
(E) Leakey’s contributions to archaeology include discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of— This option tries to work on parallelism but introduce a new , using the word discovering
Admin Please check if POE is fine and do correct me.
@ankita you are correct.
C vs D , D is right,
I too had C and D as my closest options. And went with D.
But, OA is A.
How… Can you please post the analysis….
Seriously. … I think it D
@admin Team
can you provide the explanation.
@Ankita, you are right. Your explanation is too good.
My bad, OA is D for the above sentence.
I though came across the same sentence with slightly different options (you can see it below), for which the OA is A.
In addition to her work on the Miocene hominid fossil, Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology through her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and through her painstaking documentation of East African cave paintings.
A) Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology through her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and through her painstaking documentation of
B) Mary Leakey contributed to archaeology by her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
C) Mary Leakey was a contributor to archaeology by discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and with her painstaking documentation of
D) Mary Leakey’s contributions to archaeology include her discovery of the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstakingly documenting
E) Mary Leakey’s contributions to archaeology include her discovering the earliest direct evidence of hominid activity and painstaking documentation of
Sorry for the confusion,