Sentence Correction

1.Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

IMO d ..wht is OA .................

IMO A

Main thing to understand here is that the modern critics are amused by the the scholar's categorizing and not by the early scholars themselves. So you can strike off options C D and E (the use of 's after scholar is important here to show what amused the critics)

Only option A & B refer to scholar's categorizing

Option B changes the meaning by using 'as if'

Hence option A seems right IMO

IMO D.
'Who' correctly modifies the early scholars. A is wrong for using the possessive early scholars'

IMO D

Guess the usage of "scholars' categorizing " is wrong, any form of usage of the form " possessive + gerund" is wrong.

Agree with reachac.

IMO A..

Modern critics are amused by scholars’ categorizing --m s t m

I also A.

reason given by aj5105 is correct.

A or D, and finally D IMO

A just sounded is awkward for me, i tend to use my ear a lot.

kiran.raze wrote:IMO D

Guess the usage of "scholars' categorizing " is wrong, any form of usage of the form " possessive + gerund" is wrong.

Agree with reachac.

Possesive + gerund is always wrong with things or animals but not with people.

IMO A

IMO C

I read somewhere that pronoun should never be used directly after the noun it refers to..so D & E are wrong.
In A & B possessive form is not required.
Plz correct me if wrong.
Thnx..

alpana_10 wrote:1.Modern critics are amused by early scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as
(B) scholars’ categorizing Tacitus’s Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus’s Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus’s Germania if

IMO A Possesive + Gerund for people is ok
The meaning of the sentence is that critics are amused by the categorization itself not by the scholars who categorize. Besides if the sentence mentions early scholars categorize can not be in simple present.
OA pls?