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by GmatKiss » Tue May 15, 2012 11:30 am
The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as "The Iron Horse," are legendary.
　　(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as "The Iron Horse," are legendary.

　　(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as "The Iron Horse," is legendary.

　　(C) Known as "The Iron Horse," the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, the baseball star, is legendary.

　　(D) The reason baseball star Lou Gehrig is known as "The Iron Horse" is because of his legendary endurance and consistency.

　　(E) Known as "The Iron Horse," baseball star Lou Gehrig's endurance and consistency are legendary.
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by gmatblood » Tue May 15, 2012 12:29 pm
IMO: B
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Wed May 16, 2012 1:57 am
IMO B , but Is 'is' correct here. Endurance and consistency is two major attributes of a hockey player. Is this sentence correct??
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by joshmachine » Wed May 16, 2012 11:40 am
endurance and consistency (plural subject) .. are -- B,C out
D -- reason, because redundant
E -- 'Known as "The Iron Horse"' modifies possessive noun -- out

IMO: A
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Wed May 16, 2012 1:01 pm
Definitely need 'are' since the subject is "endurance and consistency", a compound (plural) subject. Eliminate B and C.

D, as joshmachine said, is redundant. "The reason is...because..." You could say "the reason is..." or "because...", but we definitely don't need both.

I actually like the way E is set up, but it has a modifier error. "Known as the Iron Horse" should modify "Lou Gehrig," but his name is used as a possessive adjective, not a noun. That leaves us with A.
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by GmatKiss » Wed May 16, 2012 7:17 pm
OA is A
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Wed May 16, 2012 7:59 pm
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:Definitely need 'are' since the subject is "endurance and consistency", a compound (plural) subject. Eliminate B and C.

D, as joshmachine said, is redundant. "The reason is...because..." You could say "the reason is..." or "because...", but we definitely don't need both.

I actually like the way E is set up, but it has a modifier error. "Known as the Iron Horse" should modify "Lou Gehrig," but his name is used as a possessive adjective, not a noun. That leaves us with A.


Dont you think A has modifier error. how do we know that 'known as iron horse' modifies Lou Gerhig or 'his endurance and consistency'? Please explain.
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by hailmanyu » Wed May 16, 2012 10:35 pm
The touch rule states that the noun modifier and the noun must be next to each other. A follows the touch rule and so we know it modifies Lou and not his endurance/consistency. Moreover, as far my understanding is correct, known always refers to singular entities and not plural.
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu May 17, 2012 7:15 am
Gaurav 2013-fall wrote:
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:Definitely need 'are' since the subject is "endurance and consistency", a compound (plural) subject. Eliminate B and C.

D, as joshmachine said, is redundant. "The reason is...because..." You could say "the reason is..." or "because...", but we definitely don't need both.

I actually like the way E is set up, but it has a modifier error. "Known as the Iron Horse" should modify "Lou Gehrig," but his name is used as a possessive adjective, not a noun. That leaves us with A.


Dont you think A has modifier error. how do we know that 'known as iron horse' modifies Lou Gerhig or 'his endurance and consistency'? Please explain.
It's fine. "Known..." is a participial modifier, which has 3 location rules:

1. If it starts the sentence, it modifies the subject.
2. If it is in the middle of the sentence, it modifies the noun before the comma.
3. If it is at the end of the sentence, it modifies the noun before the comma OR the subject.
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Fri May 18, 2012 2:00 am
Hi Bill,

Is there a repository of these rules? Is there any book which covers all such rules?
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Fri May 18, 2012 6:46 am
Well, they definitely appear in the Veritas books :D

A good "general resource" that I use with my students is the University of Ottawa's Hypergrammar site.
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