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paes: Legendary Member; Posts: 995; Joined: Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:56 pmFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 31 times

by paes » Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:35 am

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,
(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter
(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter
(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations
(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

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by Maciek » Sun Sep 05, 2010 7:48 am

Hi Paes!

There is subject-verb disagreement in answers A and B.
Beatrix Potter...coordinating...
It should be
Beatrix Potter...coordinated...

Answers C and D include errors.
I choose E.

Hope it helps!
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by mohit11 » Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:01 am

paes wrote:Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, - Usage of them is ambigious, Them does not refer to anything.
(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter - Same problem as A
(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter -As so its the book she coordinated with her narratives. Correct.
(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations - This suggests that Potter herself was coordinated
(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and - You cannot hive off essential modifiers with commas

Answer C

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by gmat_perfect » Sun Sep 05, 2010 10:47 am

paes wrote:Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,
(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter

Think about the option A:

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

A is wrong for the following reasons:

1. Them has no reference.
2. If you eliminate the non-essential modifier, you see "BP carefully coordinating them capitalized"
3. The subject BP is very remote from the main verb "capitalized"

B is wrong for the following reasons:

In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter..

1. Them does not have reference because "illustrations" is not plural. It is the name of a book.
2. "carefully coordinating" illogically modifies "illustrations"---meaning that the book is coordinating.

Hope that helps.

thanks.

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by BastiG » Sun Sep 05, 2010 11:21 am

Illustrations is not a title. So them has a clear referent. But a is still wrong. You can google for a full list of book titles written by Beatrix Poter.

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by Arcane66 » Sun Sep 05, 2010 1:49 pm

I thought this one was fairly easy. C is the only answer that makes sense. which she carefully..modifies the book illustrations. In her book, , Beatrix Potter is obviously a correct way of wording this; I'm sure you are all familiar with this pattern.

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by paes » Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:24 pm

OA is C.

Thanks everybody for your responses.

I understand that 'them' is ambiguous in all the other 4 choices.
But I am unable to understand 2 back yo back modifiers.

Suppose in B :

In her book illustrations(A) , carefully coordinating them with her narratives(X), Beatrix Potter (B)

How to tell that :
X is modifying to A or B ?
A is modifying to X or B ?
Is there any general rule here ?

Similarly in A :
Beatrix Potter(B), in her book illustrations(A), carefully coordinating them with her narratives(X),

which part is modifying to what, please explain.

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by paes » Mon Sep 06, 2010 4:27 am

gmat_perfecr, BastiG, Mohit and others,

Can you please share your thoughts on my query above.

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