paes wrote:The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.
(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing
(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing
(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing
(0) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew
(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns
Please explain C and E.
Quickest approach:
The members performed two separate actions: they
made and then
took turns. These two actions need to be parallel. Eliminate A, B and E.
Answer choice D contains a comma splice. The clause
they drew on the funds is an independent clause; a comma cannot be used to connect it to the rest of the sentence. Eliminate D.
The correct answer is C.
In C,
drawing is modifying
turns. What kind of turns did the member take? They took turns
drawing on the funds. The idiom
to take turns + -ing word means
to alternate performing the action of the -ing word. Thus, the clause
the members...took turns drawing on the funds means that
the members alternated drawing on the funds.
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