vineetbatra wrote: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,


What is wrong with C

IMO C is a illogical in meaning...it seems as if JB was an expariate
it is also a Run on s/c

IMO D sud be the ans

C :
Read carefully u will find that answer choice C is changing the meaning of the orignal sentence.
Original sentence says that "It was fashionable to be an expatriate " --This refer to a trend ,which happened.

But answer C says something else. (Josephine Baker made Paris her home long
before to be an expatriate was fashionable) doesn't refer to any trend as stated in original sentence.

You must follow the tense sequence also. Therefore, D IMO.

Hi,

I still don't get it. How is it a run on sentence?

The sentence says JB moved to Paris long before to be an expat was fashionable, it is still talking about a trend only.

Lastly, how does the tense sequence affect this sentence.

Please help.

Thanks,

Vineet

I agree I too don't understand why C is incorrect.

I picked C and got it wrong . The OG explanation only says that C is awkward I simply don't understand why is C wrong, although I agree that is Better written sentence than C is .


Is that why D is correct only because D is a better written or C has a grammatical flaw ?

Experts , Tutors please help.

Does'nt Option -- D have a modifer problem here.

IMO -- C

Shawshank wrote:Does'nt Option -- D have a modifer problem here.

IMO -- C

No, Long before ... is a clause telling about the time when this happened. It is similar to In 1947/some year, X became the ...

Only D maintains parallelism :

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

, and is the ||ism marker.

Then look for the subject-verb correspondence .

Josephine Baker made -- she remained

I think the comma before the and is avoidable. Anyway, you can't question the official answer as: theirs is the final word!

Thanks Harsha , I agree that we can not question the OG as theirs is the last word , the best we can do is understand what they want to say .

In the sentence above Josephine Baker did two things

1.made Paris her home

2. Remained in France during world war 2 .

Both of these were done before being an expatriate was fashionable .

In option C "Josephine Baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable"

One gets the feeling that only task 1 was done before to be an expatriate was fashionable and task 2 was done later.

where as option D "Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home, " AND ...

clearly suggest that task 1 and task 2 both were done before being an expatriate was fashionable .

And both task 1 and 2 are placed parallel .