Sentence Correction

To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance.

(A) To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate

(B) For Josephine Baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Paris was her home

(C) Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable

(D) Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home

(E) Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker

The answer is D. I go through the question in detail in the full solution below (taken from the GMATFix App).



-Patrick

Hey Patrick!
I found one reason to eliminate "D".
We can't use "she" after "and"!
Tanuj ran to the police and filed the FIR.( correct)
Tanuj ran to the police and he filed the FIR. ( wrong)
Am I right?

Regards,
Mukherjee

[email protected] wrote:Hey Patrick!
I found one reason to eliminate "D".
We can't use "she" after "and"!
Tanuj ran to the police and filed the FIR.( correct)
Tanuj ran to the police and he filed the FIR. ( wrong)
Am I right?

Regards,
Mukherjee

You can use a comma with a conjunction to link two independent clauses. In your example, the first one might be better since the actions are directly connected. But something like:

My student studied for three months, and he improved his score by 200 points.

would be absolutely fine.