Sentence Correction

The Petroleum Institute and the United States Energy Dept. reported sharp drop in oil prices about oil inventory, a development that some inventors interpreted as the first indications of oil cutbacks by the world producers as beginnings to act languishing the drop.

A..
B. a development that some inventors interpreted to be the first indications that oil cutbacks of the world producers as beginnings began to
C. a development that some inventors interpreted as the first indications that oil cutbacks of the world producers are beginning to
D.which some inventors interpreted as the first indications that oil cutbacks by the world producers began to
E. which some investors interpreted to be the first indications that oil cutbacks of the world producers began to

In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a work that, taking him seven years until completion and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation if any language.
A...
B. his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced

C.his translation of the Iliad, a work that had taken him seven years to complete and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as

D.translating Iliad, a work that, took seven years until completion and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as

E.translating the the Iliad, a work that had taken him seven years to complete and literay critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it

is "translating" wrong?

jamesk486 wrote:
In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a work that, taking him seven years until completion and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation if any language.
A...
B. his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced

C.his translation of the Iliad, a work that had taken him seven years to complete and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as

D.translating Iliad, a work that, took seven years until completion and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as

E.translating the the Iliad, a work that had taken him seven years to complete and literay critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it

is "translating" wrong?

The sentence needs verbs in the same tense -- "began ... took" sounds
right.

A and C don't have the correct tense.

D - awkward construction after "that,"

E - incorrect tense "had taken"


My choice is B

IMO C, as should be used after pronounced

IMO C, as should be used after pronounced

Hi

I have a query regarding option D & E .

Alexander Pope began translating the Iliad, a work that took seven years until completion

As per OG , appositive a work incorrectly refers to Iliad . However I feel it is referring to the action of the previous clause i.e. translation of Iliad .

Please comment. I am not sure why this construction is wrong .

In the correct ans choice (B), Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad , a work that took him ....

As per OG, appositive a work correctly refers to translation

In A, we cut off "taking...". The sentence is " that and that litteric...". Not grammatical

in C, "that ...Samual pronounce it as" is wrong because "it" must be destroyed.

D and E are similar to C and are wrong

For question 1, my choice would be D
D.which some inventors interpreted as the first indications that oil cutbacks by the world producers began to
Reasoning: Which or a development is a correct modifier; interpreted as would be the correct idiom and interpreted to be (hence I eleminated B&D); oil cutbacks by would be the correct idiom than oil cutbacks of (hence I eleminated E)

For question 2, my choice would be B
B. his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced
began and translating; do not agree atleast to my ear (hence eleminated D &E); had taken him is past perfect and the action indicates simple pastense. So eleminate C.

By the way, what are the answers

Stacey Koprince wrote:Received a PM asking me about the appositive issue. An appositive is a noun modifier - it specifically refers only to another noun. In this case, "the Iliad" is a noun. The word "translating" is not. This is why the appositive "a work" refers only to "the Iliad" - and that meaning is not the correct meaning.

Though it is said that APPOSITIVE can refr only to noun
in corect answer B

, a work... refers to "TRANSLATION of ILLIAD" !!

Why so ?

Can appositive noun modifiers take the structure "X of Y, a .."

Stacey:


In the second question


There is one more hint.

In C, D, E .. the options end with IT. here the IT does not make sense ?

is this also right indication for them to be wrong ?

mmslf75 wrote:

Stacey Koprince wrote:Received a PM asking me about the appositive issue. An appositive is a noun modifier - it specifically refers only to another noun. In this case, "the Iliad" is a noun. The word "translating" is not. This is why the appositive "a work" refers only to "the Iliad" - and that meaning is not the correct meaning.

Though it is said that APPOSITIVE can refr only to noun
in corect answer B

, a work... refers to "TRANSLATION of ILLIAD" !!

Why so ?

Can appositive noun modifiers take the structure "X of Y, a .."

IMO 1. D & 2.B

Right! The "it" is grammatically incorrect here, so that's a valid reason to eliminate C, D, and E.

the word "it" would refer to "the work" but this whole clause already starts with "the work" so we don't want to repeat it. I can't say: "The work that he pronounced the work the greatest..." It's just "the work that he pronounced the greatest..."

Stacy,

Is it not that another clause has been started by "that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced" which requires a reference of the work in the form of a pronoun it."

Somewhat hard to digest, but this statement looks good.

" and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it the greatest translation in any language."

rather than

" and that literary critic Samual Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation in any language."

Somehow I am not convinced with the removal of the pronoun.

Can you please explain?
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