Sentence Correction

lunarpower wrote:

kiranlegend wrote:I chose B because illustrates and treaties are parallel. But never do i know that relation of one nation with another is unidiomatic..

whoa there.

"illustrates" is a verb.
"treaties" is a noun.
those can't be parallel!

watch your parts of speech!

kiranlegend wrote:I have questions relating to 'that' in this question: could you please let me know what does 'that' in A, B and E refers to?

it's a relative pronoun. here's an analogy first:
here's the cat that showed up on my doorstep.
in this sentence, 'that' is a relative pronoun that stands for the cat.

in EVERY choice except (d), "that" refers to "episodes". the prepositional phrases that follow are disposable, and don't affect the correspondence between "that" and "episodes". this correspondence works the same way as the correspondence between "that" and "cat" in the simple example sentence above.

you may be troubled by the correspondence of the relative pronoun "that" with a noun that's not located directly next to it. if so, check out problem #50 in the diagnostic test of the 11th edition o.g. (the diagnostic test in the front - NOT #50 in the regular sentence correction chapter), in which there's a "that" modifier that acts in exactly the same way.

in fact, the overall construction of the correct answer in this problem is quite similar to the o.g. diagnostic problem mentioned above; it's quite possible that the question writer based this problem on that one (although the nature of the wrong answer choices is quite different).

lunarpower wrote:

kiranlegend wrote:I chose B because illustrates and treaties are parallel. But never do i know that relation of one nation with another is unidiomatic..

whoa there.

"illustrates" is a verb.
"treaties" is a noun.
those can't be parallel!

watch your parts of speech!

kiranlegend wrote:I have questions relating to 'that' in this question: could you please let me know what does 'that' in A, B and E refers to?

it's a relative pronoun. here's an analogy first:
here's the cat that showed up on my doorstep.
in this sentence, 'that' is a relative pronoun that stands for the cat.

in EVERY choice except (d), "that" refers to "episodes". the prepositional phrases that follow are disposable, and don't affect the correspondence between "that" and "episodes". this correspondence works the same way as the correspondence between "that" and "cat" in the simple example sentence above.

you may be troubled by the correspondence of the relative pronoun "that" with a noun that's not located directly next to it. if so, check out problem #50 in the diagnostic test of the 11th edition o.g. (the diagnostic test in the front - NOT #50 in the regular sentence correction chapter), in which there's a "that" modifier that acts in exactly the same way.

in fact, the overall construction of the correct answer in this problem is quite similar to the o.g. diagnostic problem mentioned above; it's quite possible that the question writer based this problem on that one (although the nature of the wrong answer choices is quite different).