Despite Beethoven's traditional status as the first great Romantic composer, he is considered by some musicologists to be the last great composer of the Classical era.

Despite Beethoven's traditional status as the first great Romantic composer, he is considered by some musicologists to be the last great composer of the Classical era.

Despite Beethoven's traditional status as the first great Romantic composer, he is considered the last great composer of the Classical era by some musicologists.

Although his status is traditionally as the first great Romantic composer, Beethoven is considered as being the last great composer of the Classical era by some musicologists.

Despite his traditional status as the first great Romantic composer, Beethoven is considered the last great composer of the Classical era by some musicologists.

Although he is traditionally considered to be the first great Romantic composer, some musicologists consider Beethoven as the last great composer of the Classical era.


OA D. I read OE many times and I can't understand why B is less clear or accurate than D.

Received a PM asking about possessive pronouns. I think the confusion is actually about possessive nouns here.

One important thing to note: this is almost never tested on the GMAT. Don't worry about it too much.

If you have a regular noun (something that does not have <'s> at the end), then any type of pronoun can refer to it.

Juliette loves her iPod. The iPod is hers. ("her" and "hers" are in possessive case)
That's Juliette. She has an iPod. ("she" is in subject case)
That's Juliette. Give your iPod to her. ("her" is in object case)

In each case, note that the main noun, Juliette, is not in possessive form. It doesn't say "Juliette's."

Now, let's make Juliette possessive:

Juliette's iPod is her favorite gadget. ("her" is in possessive case - this is okay)
That's Juliette's iPod. She loves it. ("she" is in subject case. This is NOT okay - a subject pronoun can't refer to a possessive noun.)
That's Juliette's iPod. Give it to her. ("her" is in object case. Again, this is NOT okay - an object pronoun can't refer to a possessive noun.)

This is one of the basic things of the Grammar, which we should know by heart.

This is one of the basic things of the Grammar, which we should know by heart.

Like all others said, its D.