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by sk8ternite » Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:38 pm
To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.

(a) To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate
(b) For Josephine Baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Paris was her home
(c) Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable
(d) Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home
(e) Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker

Answer is D and please explain reasoning
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by freshy » Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:28 pm
To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.

IMO, because the second part of the sentence starts with "and she remained" meaning that the subject of the sentence should be Josephine Baker in order for the sentence to make sense.

(a) To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate (subject is Paris)
(b) For Josephine Baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Paris was her home (subject is Paris)
(c) Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable (even Josephine Baker is subject, the sentence is not correctly structured)
(d) Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home (Josephine is the subject - clear and correct)
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by Domnu » Sun Jul 05, 2009 7:32 pm
I'm not sure about D; the word "it" looks like it is referring to Josephine.
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:44 pm
freshy wrote: IMO, because the second part of the sentence starts with "and she remained" meaning that the subject of the sentence should be Josephine Baker in order for the sentence to make sense.
Hi freshy,

Can you please shed some light on this rule please ?

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by gmat740 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:38 am
IMO, because the second part of the sentence starts with "and she remained" meaning that the subject of the sentence should be Josephine Baker in order for the sentence to make sense.
I second that. Usually I don't follow any kind of rule for this, but I do check out the non-underlined part to understand the meaning of the sentence.
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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:41 am
gmat740 wrote:
IMO, because the second part of the sentence starts with "and she remained" meaning that the subject of the sentence should be Josephine Baker in order for the sentence to make sense.
I second that. Usually I don't follow any kind of rule for this, but I do check out the non-underlined part to understand the meaning of the sentence.
Hi Karan,

Can you please explain a bit more...what do u mean to say here ?

Can you please shed some light on the rule that freshy above discussed ?

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