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Adv: Subjects tended to be vividle ..

by California4jx » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:10 pm
I couldnt digest the explanation of this sentence, please help:

Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relattives.

A: Subjects tend to be vividly but distrubingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.

B: Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, who were often his closest friends and relatives.

C: Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits, often of his closest friends and relatives, tend to vividly but disturbingly portrayed.

D: In Egon Schiele's portraits, the subject, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed.

E: Vividly but disturbingly, the subjects portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits tended to be his closest friends and relatives.


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by anshul265 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:49 pm
If the Answer is anything other than D , then yeh I will be surprized too. Here is a brief explanation...

A. The way this sentence is written , the phrase "often his closest friends and relatives" refers to portraits, whereas it needs to refer to subjects.

B. In most cases, which and who refers to the word immediately before. In this case, who incorrectly refers to portraits.

For example: the painter, who was also very adept at .....
The tree, which was 80 yrs old ....

C. Subjects of ....
Often of ...
It should have been, Subjects of X , often his closest friends and ....

D. All the modifiers are correctly placed.

E. "Tended to be" is incorrect tense.

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by California4jx » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:07 pm
anshul265 wrote:If the Answer is anything other than D , then yeh I will be surprized too. Here is a brief explanation...

A. The way this sentence is written , the phrase "often his closest friends and relatives" refers to portraits, whereas it needs to refer to subjects.

B. In most cases, which and who refers to the word immediately before. In this case, who incorrectly refers to portraits.

For example: the painter, who was also very adept at .....
The tree, which was 80 yrs old ....

C. Subjects of ....
Often of ...
It should have been, Subjects of X , often his closest friends and ....

D. All the modifiers are correctly placed.

E. "Tended to be" is incorrect tense.
Thanks for good explanation ... you are right -- OA: D

Now i can see why its D.

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by James_83 » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:37 pm
But in D, "the subject" is singular..

cannt that make the differenec?.i have eliminated the choice D because of that.

eg: He is my closest friend. -----------A
He is one of my closest friends. ----------B

So, both the above sentences are correct. But the sentence A holds true in our case.

Please explain

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by anshul265 » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:16 am
Think of it in this way

In all James Bond movies, the hero ....

the hero is different in each movie but the decription is general for all heros.

Hope this clarifies.

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by kiranlegend » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:52 am
In Egon Schiele's portraits, the subject, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed.

the subject... tend ( am i depicting the subject and verb properly :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: )

please someone explain

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