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[prinka.shar]

Equally at ease scrambling up the craggiest and treacherous mountain landscapes as perching on a ready-made barnyard knoll; the goat is considerably more adaptable than its cousin, the sheep.





Equally at ease scrambling up the craggiest and treacherous mountain landscapes as perching on ready-made barnyard knolls; the goat is



The goat, as comfortable scrambling up the craggiest, most treacherous mountain landscapes as to perch on ready-made barnyard knolls, it is



As comfortable when scrambling up the craggiest, treacherous mountain landscapes as when perching on ready-made barnyard knolls, goats are



Equally at ease scrambling up the craggiest and most treacherous mountain landscapes as they are perching on ready-made barnyard knolls, goats are



As comfortable scrambling up the craggiest, most treacherous mountain landscapes as perching on ready-made barnyard knolls, the goat is


I have filtered the answer options till A and E . But I rejected E because craggiest, most treacherous is wrong .. it should be craggiest AND most treacherous.

Kindly suggest.

Thanks,
Priyanka

[RonPurewal]

But I rejected E because craggiest, most treacherous is wrong ..

well... no, that's not wrong.

the use of a comma to separate two adjectives is quite common in written english.
my wife is always the loudest, most extroverted person in the room.

[WenjieZ514]

Hi ron,

why could the adj "comfortable" modify the v-ing "scrambling". should we not use "comfortably" instead?

Is the following acceptable?

As comfortably scrambling up the craggiest, most treacherous mountain landscapes as perching on ready-made barnyard knolls, the goat is considerably more adaptable than its cousin, the sheep.

[tim]

I have no idea what "v-ing" means, and unfortunately it looks like this piece is crucial to being able to answer your question. Specifically, identifying what part of speech "scrambling" is is central to determining how it relates (if at all) to "comfortable".

To address your example though, no you cannot use "comfortably" here, because "comfortable" and "scrambling" both modify "goat". You can have a comfortable goat but not a comfortably goat.

[RonPurewal]

that adjective describes the goat. the stuff afterward just qualifies that adjective.

e.g., I'm as happy staying home as I am going out.
"happy" describes me; the rest of the words describe what makes me happy.

[WenjieZ514]

thank you ron and tim for your great clarification.

[RonPurewal]

... and this thread is now locked, since it's in the wrong folder. (MGMAT CAT problems have a folder of their own.)