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Choose the sentence in which all modifiers are NOT correctly positioned.
(A) On October 15, 1951, a new television show aired featuring Lucille Ball's distinctive comedic style that would become one of the most famous programs of all time.
(B) Rover and Benji, the Golden Retrievers that Jane adopted, were considered smarter than most of the children who lived in the neighborhood.
(C) The pieces of gum that I must have stepped on and that were stuck to the bottom of my shoe didn't frustrate me until I became aware of their presence.
(D) In the forest, Snow White discovered a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarfs, who were named Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Doc.
(E) Although the term is often used erroneously to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of characters from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, "muppet" is a trademarked name applicable only to characters created by Jim Henson.
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pls give the correct answers.karthikpandian19 wrote:This is a kind of practice question: This is easy for your GMAT prep on SC
Choose the sentence in which all modifiers are NOT correctly positioned.
(A) On October 15, 1951, a new television show aired featuring Lucille Ball's distinctive comedic style that would become one of the most famous programs of all time.
(B) Rover and Benji, the Golden Retrievers that Jane adopted, were considered smarter than most of the children who lived in the neighborhood. that should be whom
(C) The pieces of gum that I must have stepped on and that were stuck to the bottom of my shoe didn't frustrate me until I became aware of their presence.
(D) In the forest, Snow White discovered a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarfs, who were named Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Doc.
(E) Although the term is often used erroneously to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of characters from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, "muppet" is a trademarked name applicable only to characters created by Jim Henson.
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1947 wrote:pls give the correct answers.karthikpandian19 wrote:This is a kind of practice question: This is easy for your GMAT prep on SC
Choose the sentence in which all modifiers are NOT correctly positioned.
(A) On October 15, 1951, a new television show aired featuring Lucille Ball's distinctive comedic style that would become one of the most famous programs of all time.
(B) Rover and Benji, the Golden Retrievers that Jane adopted, were considered smarter than most of the children who lived in the neighborhood. that should be whom
(C) The pieces of gum that I must have stepped on and that were stuck to the bottom of my shoe didn't frustrate me until I became aware of their presence.
(D) In the forest, Snow White discovered a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarfs, who were named Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Doc.
(E) Although the term is often used erroneously to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of characters from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, "muppet" is a trademarked name applicable only to characters created by Jim Henson.
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is it D?karthikpandian19 wrote:This is a kind of practice question: This is easy for your GMAT prep on SC
Choose the sentence in which all modifiers are NOT correctly positioned.
(A) On October 15, 1951, a new television show aired featuring Lucille Ball's distinctive comedic style that would become one of the most famous programs of all time.
(B) Rover and Benji, the Golden Retrievers that Jane adopted, were considered smarter than most of the children who lived in the neighborhood.
(C) The pieces of gum that I must have stepped on and that were stuck to the bottom of my shoe didn't frustrate me until I became aware of their presence.
(D) In the forest, Snow White discovered a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarfs, who were named Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Doc.
(E) Although the term is often used erroneously to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of characters from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, "muppet" is a trademarked name applicable only to characters created by Jim Henson.
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OA is A
Answer explanation below:
Answer choice A is correct because the relative clause "that would become... of all time" seems to modify the noun "style," when it should modify "television show." The modifiers in the other sentences are correctly placed.
Answer explanation below:
Answer choice A is correct because the relative clause "that would become... of all time" seems to modify the noun "style," when it should modify "television show." The modifiers in the other sentences are correctly placed.
karthikpandian19 wrote:This is a kind of practice question: This is easy for your GMAT prep on SC
Choose the sentence in which all modifiers are NOT correctly positioned.
(A) On October 15, 1951, a new television show aired featuring Lucille Ball's distinctive comedic style that would become one of the most famous programs of all time.
(B) Rover and Benji, the Golden Retrievers that Jane adopted, were considered smarter than most of the children who lived in the neighborhood.
(C) The pieces of gum that I must have stepped on and that were stuck to the bottom of my shoe didn't frustrate me until I became aware of their presence.
(D) In the forest, Snow White discovered a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarfs, who were named Sleepy, Dopey, Happy, Grumpy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Doc.
(E) Although the term is often used erroneously to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of characters from The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, "muppet" is a trademarked name applicable only to characters created by Jim Henson.
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