1000SC Q 11

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by [email protected] » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:11 am

11. A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published, reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.
(A) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published,
(B) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
(C) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published,
(D) Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year as he published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that
(E) Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year of publication as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that

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by g_beatthegmat » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:26 am

(C) works for me here...

(A) incorrectly uses were published for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
(B) Tempting choice, but (C) makes the point much clearer.

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by g_beatthegmat » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:30 am

I want to add another question along with saurabh_1922's question here.

What if option (A)
=> A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published,
was instead
=> A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published,

would (C) still be the correct choice?

Thanks.

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by parore26 » Thu Aug 02, 2007 11:02 am

Yes. in your second Question the choice (C) would be correct. In common usage both A and C are correct but C is more clear....

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by simplyjat » Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:01 am

I am still not certain, why B is wrong...

simplyjat

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by medea66 » Sun Aug 24, 2008 7:34 am

So are D & E wrong because they make Mark Twain the subject instead of the letter?

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by stubbornp » Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:06 am

simplyjat wrote:I am still not certain, why B is wrong...

B is wrong.....it looks awkward..

publication as...

it should be publication of

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by dalwow » Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:30 pm

I also don't understand why B doesn't work. 'Publication of' doesn't make sense.

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by gdhanuka » Thu Sep 25, 2008 9:34 pm

B is incorrect because it says
"A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year of publication "
here modifier is for letter by Mark which was published, but publication should be only for book not for the letter.

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by sangeethmani » Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:28 pm

Any lead on why b is wrong?

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by tanviet » Wed Dec 16, 2009 5:56 am

in dictionary there are 2 idioms which we need to remember

NOUN1 is the same as NOUN2

the same NOUN that clause

C is left

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by Sampits » Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:10 am

Hi Experts,

I need to know why exactly D and E do not work here....

Thanks!

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by Rajat Khandelwal » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:08 am

written in the same year that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published

bold words make the year precise ...

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by camilaross » Fri Mar 05, 2010 11:56 am

I was taught to run away from nominalization as much as possible.... in this case, you are stuck between B and C. B has the publication and C has published. Just choose the one that does not have nominalization. This is coming from my Prep Class teacher.....

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by samyak » Sun Apr 18, 2010 8:52 am

Hello Folks,

Help me out wid noder option.

Option A is

A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were published,

Had it been:

A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as that of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ,

will it be the correct answer?

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