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Question
Birds known as honey guides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a honey-badger or human, to a bees’ nest with their chattering when they fly ahead; after the larger animal takes honey, the bird eats the wasp and bee larvae.
Option A:
with their chattering when they fly
Option B:
with chattering and its flying
Option C:
by chattering as it flies
Option D:
by chattering and its flying
Option E:
by chattering as they are flying
Difficulty Level
MediumSolution
Option C is the correct answer.
Option Analysis
Concept tested: Construction, Parallelism, Pronouns
A) Inappropriate usage of the word “with”. They don’t fly WITH chattering.
B) Same as A.
C) Correct Answer
D) Not parallel.
E) Inappropriate usage of the pronoun “They”. You don’t know what they refer to.
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