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Auden's Language

by money9111 » Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:59 pm
Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational--given to complex syntactic flights are well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.

A. Like Auden, the language of James Merrill
B. Like Auden, James Merrill's language
C. Like Auden's, James Merrill's language
D. As with Auden, James Merrill's language
E. As is Auden's the language of James Merrill

The OA is C

but my question is... how should we treat hyphens? "free-verse" i understand because that's a hyphen, but the "conversational--given" component, I don't understand... it was actually one of those longer hyphens, so I'm unclear.

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by komal » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:12 pm
money9111 wrote:

but my question is... how should we treat hyphens? "free-verse" i understand because that's a hyphen, but the "conversational--given" component, I don't understand... it was actually one of those longer hyphens, so I'm unclear.

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Two hyphens are used to give emphasis to an idea. It might also help to go through this link for a short explanation of usage of two hyphens.
https://www.dailygrammar.com/426to430.shtml
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by money9111 » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:15 pm
thank you thank you... i was thinking of it like a comma which then made me think of clauses and the like
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by komal » Thu Feb 18, 2010 7:18 pm
money9111 wrote:Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational--given to complex syntactic flights are well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.

A. Like Auden, the language of James Merrill - Incorrect - Auden is compared to james' language
B. Like Auden, James Merrill's language - Incorrect - james' language is compared to auden
C. Like Auden's, James Merrill's language - Clear n Concise - Auden's language is compared to James' language
D. As with Auden, James Merrill's language - wrong usage of 'as' - here 'like' is required for comparision
E. As is Auden's the language of James Merrill - same as D
(C) is correct
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by gocoder » Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:03 am
would a hypothetical choice'As is Auden's, the language of James Merrill' be right in this context ?
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