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by [email protected] » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:59 pm
Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.


A. Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.
B. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of how he famously and masterfully uses irony, evident in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
C. Famed for using irony in a masterful way, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author slowly revealing a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
D. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author's famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
E. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because he slowly revealed a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece, demonstrating his famed and masterful use of irony.

Answer is D.
What is the problem with E? I eliminated D as it uses 'evidenced' which i felt to be awkward
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by rockeyb » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:08 pm
[email protected] wrote:Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.


A. Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.
B. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of how he famously and masterfully uses irony, evident in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
C. Famed for using irony in a masterful way, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author slowly revealing a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
D. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author's famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
E. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because he slowly revealed a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece, demonstrating his famed and masterful use of irony.

Answer is D.
What is the problem with E? I eliminated D as it uses 'evidenced' which i felt to be awkward
Can you find an antecedent for HE and HIS in E ?


Where as in D author's - clearly states who is using irony .
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by [email protected] » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:14 pm
Yes, but of the two options i felt the usage of 'evidenced' is a bigger mistake.
In the last option I thought it refers to the author.
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by rockeyb » Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:23 pm
[email protected] wrote:Yes, but of the two options i felt the usage of 'evidenced' is a bigger mistake.
In the last option I thought it refers to the author.
Mate please dont get me wrong , but there are no bigger and smaller mistakes in GMAT . Either we have a mistake OR the option is correct .

So if you find two options that you feel are correct , then there are just 2 possibilities
(1) you are not able to identify the error .
(2) the question is not a good GMAT question.

So if the question is from a reliable source chance are you have missed some thing important .


As far as the sentence above is concerned


Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author's famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.


evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.

Is modifying the subject "Guy de Maupassant's short stories" and its usage is correct .

Most of the times GMAT will use options that will not sound correct but obey the grammatical rule .

I hope this helps mate.

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by akhpad » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:14 am
A. This contains a misplaced modifier. Modifier at start modifies "many of..." not Guy de Maupassant.

B. Because we are referring to Maupassant's short stories we can not later use the subject pronoun he. He - references possessive "Guy de Maupassant's" not Guy de Maupassant himself.It's fine to use a possessive such as his.

C. This contains a misplaced modifier. Modifier at start modifies "many of..." not Guy de Maupassant.

D. This is the correct answer. It correct the possessive error by introducing a noun.

E. Because we are referring to Maupassant's short stories we can not later use the subject pronoun he. He references possessive "Guy de Maupassant's" not Guy de Maupassant himself. It's fine to use a possessive such as his.
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by Shawshank » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:23 am
[email protected] wrote:Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.


A. Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.
B. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of how he famously and masterfully uses irony, evident in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
C. Famed for using irony in a masterful way, many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author slowly revealing a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
D. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because of the author's famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
E. Many of Guy de Maupassant's short stories have become classics because he slowly revealed a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece, demonstrating his famed and masterful use of irony.


Answer is D.
What is the problem with E? I eliminated D as it uses 'evidenced' which i felt to be awkward
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