Sentence Correction

Mathilde Blind's epic poem The Ascent of Man (1889) is not as well-informed as the evolutionary poems of Constance Naden, nor as witty as the poems of May Kendall, but it conveys a conviction that the so-called feminine sphere should include both the world of poetry and of science, in an argument that is typical of English thinking in the 1880s and 1890s.

A. both the world of poetry and of
B. both the world of poetry and the world of
C. the worlds both of poetry and also
D. both worlds, of poetry, and
E. the worlds both of poetry and that of

ritumaheshwari02 wrote:Mathilde Blind's epic poem The Ascent of Man (1889) is not as well-informed as the evolutionary poems of Constance Naden, nor as witty as the poems of May Kendall, but it conveys a conviction that the so-called feminine sphere should include both the world of poetry and of science, in an argument that is typical of English thinking in the 1880s and 1890s.

A. both the world of poetry and of
B. both the world of poetry and the world of
C. the worlds both of poetry and also
D. both worlds, of poetry, and
E. the worlds both of poetry and that of

B - is wordy (grammatically OK) compared to A
C - Not parallel (both OF POETRY AND ALSO SCIENCE); ALSO is not required
D - both WORLDS and SCIENCE are not parallel
E - that should hv been THOSE (to refer to WORLDS); ideally THE WORLD is good enough
A - THE WORLD OF X AND OF Y are parallel

A

Idiom to be used is "both X and Y " - X and Y should be parallel.

The sentence can be "the world of both X and Y" or "both the world of X and the world of Y"

A - both the world of X and of Y is not parallel. So the answer should be (B)
OA Please.

Idiom to be used is "both X and Y " - X and Y should be parallel.

The sentence can be "the world of both X and Y" or "both the world of X and the world of Y"

A - both the world of X and of Y is not parallel. So the answer should be (B)
OA Please.

on this one, i am with sathishkumarjva9888. all but b) fail on test of parallelism.

patanjali: i will re-iterate that priority order on sc is correctness > clarity > concision
on priority list, wordy or concision(3) is much lower than correctness(parallelism)