Sentence Correction

The first commercially successful drama to depict Black family life sympathetically and the first play by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway, it was Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun that won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1959, and was later made into both a film and a musical.

A. it was Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun that won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1959, and was later made

B. in 1959 A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and was later made

C. Lorraine Hansberry won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for A Raisin in the Sun in 1959, and it was later made C

D. Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1959 and was later made

E. A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry, won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award in 1959, and later made it



Hi Experts ,

I was stuck between D and E.

I have a couple of questions.

1) Please shed some light on the usage of the POSSESSIVE in this question (Lorraine Hansberry's , also I have read that Plural Possessive is wrong , so how come Critics' Circle )

2) I guess A Raisin in the Sun should be modifies , because in the first part of the sentences it talks about the drama. Right?


Please advise and correct me if I took in another way.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Yes, D and E are the only two options that do not have modification errors, however "and later made it into both a film and a musical" is incorrect. Who made it into a musical? According to this sentence, no one. Also, IT does not refer to anything in this sentence.

There needs to be either the verb was..."was made" or "was later made" like in option D or another subject to preform the verb of making the play into a film and musical.

The usage of the possessive in this question, "Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun" might appear to break the touch modification rule, because "Lorraine Hansberry's' comes immediately after the comma, and usually the subject of the preceding modifying clause should be first but because the phrase "Lorraine Hansberry's" serves only to further modify "A Raisin in the Sun", "A Raisin in the Sun" is still the subject and thus is correctly modified by the first part of the sentence.

The plural possessive "New York Drama Critics' Circle Award" is correct because that is the official name of an award that exists in the real world, so it is allowed on the GMAT.

Thanks for your question!

ChristinaM

Hi Experts ,

Please shed some light on this .

Thanks

Hi,

The answer has to be D.

As per the meaning analysis of E..." A raisin in the Sun" is the subject. Hence there is no need for "it" after the connector "and".. In D notice how there is no reference made to the subject again.

Regards,
Dom.

anant03 wrote:I was stuck between D and E.

E: A Raisin in the Sun...later made it into a movie.
Here, it is intended to stand in for A Raisin in the Sun.
The result is a nonsensical meaning:
A Raisin in the Sun...later made A Raisin in the Sun into a movie.
Eliminate E.

1) Please shed some light on the usage of the POSSESSIVE in this question (Lorraine Hansberry's ,
also I have read that Plural Possessive is wrong , so how come Critics' Circle )

2) I guess A Raisin in the Sun should be modifies , because in the first part of the sentences it talks about the drama. Right?

OA: The first commercially successful drama to depict Black family life sympathetically, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

An APPOSITIVE is a noun or noun phrase that serves to explain or define another noun or noun phrase.
Here, the first commercially successful drama is an appositive serving to explain Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun.
Lorraine Hanberry's is a adjective serving to modify A Raisin in the Sun.

Plural possessives are not always wrong.
More importantly, the capitalization of the words in New York Drama Critics' Circle Award indicates that this phrase is the NAME of the award.
A name cannot contain an error.