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by gmat25 » Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:55 am
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How can be a modifier like this?

one they ..............
first of all believe to be is the correct idiom, second, regarding modifier, so please note both ONE and THAT are pronouns and ONE is clearly referring to the explosion so using THAT with ONE is clearly nonsensical and redundant in Op C and Op E.

Now for Op A and Op B, first of all the introduction of a new relative clause (that...) is unnecessary...second as i said earlier the idiom is "believe X to be Y" not "believe X is of" etc etc.
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by SticklorForDetails » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:20 am
YellowSapphire wrote:Q is in Image


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How can be a modifier like this?

one they ..............
"they believe to be of a kind..." is an adjective clause modifying "one," and "one" is an appositive modifying "explosion." The adjective clause "they believe..." usually has a relative pronoun at the beginning, like "which" or "that," but it doesn't actually have to. In fact, we very often use adjective clauses without relative pronouns in English, with no comma separating them from the term they're modifying. For example:

That story you wrote was very good.

Here "you wrote" is an adjective clause describing "story." While it might be clearer (especially in the case of a long relative clause, such as in the above OG question) to include a "that" before "you wrote," it's not required. If set off my commas, though, you'll always see a relative pronoun, most likely "which:"

That story, you wrote, was very good (wrong)
That story, which you wrote, was very good (right)

There's an OG question with this same odd modification that I commented on earlier today here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/question-abo ... 88009.html

Hope that helps!
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