Question: As researchers continue to probe the highly expressive vocal and postural language of wolves, their close resemblance to dogs has become ever more striking.

(A) their close resemblance to dogs has become
(B) the closeness of their resemblance to dogs has become
(C) the close resemblance between them and dogs has become
(D) the close resemblance between wolves and dogs becomes
(E) the close resemblance of wolves with dogs becomes

“As researchers continue to probe the highly expressive vocal and postural language of wolves” - is a GMAT sentence correction question. These types of questions contain grammatical errors in the underlined sentence, and we have to choose the correct statement from the options. GMAT sentence correction is part of GMAT verbal.

Answer: D
Explanation:
The following recommendations could be utilised as a means of validating the suggested alteration to the phrase:

• Parallelism
• Considering two distinct facts
• Modifiers

This is how the sentence is put together:

The startling similarity between wolves and dogs is becoming more apparent as experts continue to investigate the highly expressive vocal and postural language of wolves. Dogs and wolves share a lot of similarities.

Option A is incorrect:
A is an incorrect response. Here, the use of the word “their” has a pronoun ambiguity. We do not know whether “their” is referring to “researchers”, "wolves." Also, the use of the word “has become” is incorrect.

Option B is incorrect:
This choice is incorrect for the same reasons as given for A. The use of the word “their” has a pronoun ambiguity. We do not know whether “their” is referring to “researchers”, "wolves." Also, the use of the word “has become” is incorrect.

Choice C is incorrect.
This is an incorrect option. It would appear from the use of the word "has become" that the similarity between wolves and dogs began at some point in the past, is ongoing at the present moment, and may come to an end at some point in the future. This is not the meaning that was intended, and the similarity is not dependent on the actions taken by the researchers.

Choice D is correct.
D is the correct choice. Here, the use of idioms is perfectly placed in the sentence.

Choice E is incorrect.
This is the incorrect choice. Idiom can be "resemblance between X and Y" or "resemblance to" but here it has been used as “resemblance of." This makes the sentence incorrect.

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