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by poonam197 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:34 am
The people of the ancient Assyrian Empire were renowned warriors, although they also crafted some of the best-preserved ancient art.

A) were renowned warriors, although they also crafted
B) had been renowned warriors, although they also crafted
C) were renowned warriors, and also crafted
D) was renowned warriors, although they also crafted
E) were renowned warriors, but also crafting

The correct answer is option A.

Please advice why not Option C
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:45 am
option C, were renowned warriors, and also crafted - Sentence construction is wrong i feel.
It causes sentence Frag
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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:47 am
IMO "c" is wrong due to faulty parallelism.

The people ..............were renowned warriors, and also crafted....

"Were renowned warriors" is not parallel with "also crafted".
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by mooreliberty » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:47 pm
goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO "c" is wrong due to faulty parallelism.

The people ..............were renowned warriors, and also crafted....

"Were renowned warriors" is not parallel with "also crafted".
is it not parallel or is it not idiomatic? not to be a pain, but if it is indeed not parallel, i am unsure as to why...
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by amitabhprasad » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:24 pm
The intention of the sentence is to show contrast and not to show list of things they can do.
"although" the right conjunction to be used to show contrast.
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by mowghli » Mon Jan 05, 2009 8:45 pm
A and C are both ok.
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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:26 pm
mooreliberty wrote:
goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO "c" is wrong due to faulty parallelism.

The people ..............were renowned warriors, and also crafted....

"Were renowned warriors" is not parallel with "also crafted".
is it not parallel or is it not idiomatic? not to be a pain, but if it is indeed not parallel, i am unsure as to why...
The people....X and Y.

If we interchange X and Y, then the sentence becomes:

The people ..............also crafted...., and were renowned warriors.....

Due to the above "also" parallelism is broken.
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by brb588 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:08 pm
mowghli wrote:A and C are both ok.
C is structurally wrong.

As the second post in this thread states clauses with the ", <conjunction>" construction must be independent. ", And also crafted some of the best-preserved ancient art" is a dependent clause.
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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 11:17 pm
brb588 wrote:
mowghli wrote:A and C are both ok.
C is structurally wrong.

As the second post in this thread states clauses with the ", <conjunction>" construction must be independent. ", And also crafted some of the best-preserved ancient art" is a dependent clause.
a small doubt: if "c" if would have contained "not only" ..."but also" like below:

C) were "not only" renowned warriors, "but also" crafted.

then would this have been as a standalone sentence correct ?
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by brb588 » Tue Jan 06, 2009 8:30 am
goelmohit2002 wrote: a small doubt: if "c" if would have contained "not only" ..."but also" like below:

C) were "not only" renowned warriors, "but also" crafted.

then would this have been as a standalone sentence correct ?
No. "Were not only renowned warriors, but also crafted some of the best-preserved ancient art" is incomplete.
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