when he could no longer play violin himself, Howard taught, imparted his knowledge to students to encourage them to be as successful as he once was.
a. imparted his knowledge to students to encourage
b. and he imparted his knowledge to students and encouraged
c. and imparting his knowledge to students encouraged
d. imparting his knowledge to students and encouraged
e. imparting his knowledge to students encouraging
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IMO D
E incorrect: "students encouraging them" means students encourage them, not Howard encourages them."encouraging" refers to students, not to Howard and it is ambiguous.
if we want "encouraging" to refer to Howard, we must put comma before "encouraging".
Howard taught, imparting his knowledge to students, encouraging them to be as successful as he once was.(though this sentence itself is not correct!)
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E incorrect: "students encouraging them" means students encourage them, not Howard encourages them."encouraging" refers to students, not to Howard and it is ambiguous.
if we want "encouraging" to refer to Howard, we must put comma before "encouraging".
Howard taught, imparting his knowledge to students, encouraging them to be as successful as he once was.(though this sentence itself is not correct!)
hope this will help!
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IMO D. Agree with hoji on his explanation on E. It doesn't make sense without the comma.
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Gavan wrote:when he could no longer play violin himself, Howard taught, imparted his knowledge to students to encourage them to be as successful as he once was.
a. imparted his knowledge to students to encourage
b. and he imparted his knowledge to students and encouraged
c. and imparting his knowledge to students encouraged
d. imparting his knowledge to students and encouraged
e. imparting his knowledge to students encouraging
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@Gavan:Gavan wrote:MR OA is E, they talked about parallelism -ing in E. I also thought about D in first place and not convinced with E yet...any thoughts
I picked E, but I think option E should have read something like "imparting his knowledge to students AND encouraging."
Are you sure you copied option E correctly?
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Gavan wrote:when he could no longer play violin himself, Howard taught, imparted his knowledge to students to encourage them to be as successful as he once was.
a. imparted his knowledge to students to encourage -- wrong parallelism between taught and imparted;to encourage is wrong usage too.POE
b. and he imparted his knowledge to students and encouraged -- taught,imparted and encouraged are made separate actions.However,imparted and encouraged are dependent upon taught. POE.
c. and imparting his knowledge to students encouraged -- and usage is unnecessary;wrong parallelism between encouraged and taught. POE
d. imparting his knowledge to students and encouraged -- wrong parallelism between encourage and taught.POE
e. imparting his knowledge to students encouraging -- imparting and encouraging are dependent results upon taught. More so,verb+ing indicates these actions happened at the same time as 'taught'.Correct usage.
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D is wrong... E is good .. thanks to the poster
avik.ch wrote:Have you correctly typed answer choice E ?
Can you please share the source of this problem ?
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The non-underlined portion contains a tense error. When Howard taught, he no longer was successful. Thus, the past perfect is needed: Howard TAUGHT...encouraging [his students] to be as successful as he once HAD BEEN.Gavan wrote:when he could no longer play violin himself, Howard taught, imparted his knowledge to students to encourage them to be as successful as he once was.
a. imparted his knowledge to students to encourage
b. and he imparted his knowledge to students and encouraged
c. and imparting his knowledge to students encouraged
d. imparting his knowledge to students and encouraged
e. imparting his knowledge to students encouraging
I would ignore this SC. What is the source?
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It is so weird. Can anyone explain the structure of choice E.
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