Official Guide Companion for Sentence Correction by Manhattan GMAT

Author:Manhattan GMAT
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Manhattan Prep Publishing
Published: 2013-11-29T08:00:00+00:00

First Glance

The underline includes a comma followed by which, indicating possible Modifier or Meaning issues.

Issues

(1) Meaning: growing

Three answer choices contain the comma followed by which, the other two change to “comma -ing.” Does the sentence require a noun modifier or an adverbial modifier?

What can grow or is growing? The killer whale. Because the noun killer whale already appears right before the comma, the sentence should use a noun modifier (which) after the comma. The adverbial modifier, growing, would modify the verb include, implying that the killer whale is growing as a result of the fact that the 32 species include them. This is illogical. Eliminate answers (B) and (C).

(2) Meaning: as big as

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