Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational--given to complex syntactic flights are well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.
A. Like Auden, the language of James Merrill
B. Like Auden, James Merrill's language
C. Like Auden's, James Merrill's language
D. As with Auden, James Merrill's language
E. As is Auden's the language of James Merrill
The OA is C
but my question is... how should we treat hyphens? "free-verse" i understand because that's a hyphen, but the "conversational--given" component, I don't understand... it was actually one of those longer hyphens, so I'm unclear.
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money9111 wrote:
but my question is... how should we treat hyphens? "free-verse" i understand because that's a hyphen, but the "conversational--given" component, I don't understand... it was actually one of those longer hyphens, so I'm unclear.
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Two hyphens are used to give emphasis to an idea. It might also help to go through this link for a short explanation of usage of two hyphens.
https://www.dailygrammar.com/426to430.shtml
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thank you thank you... i was thinking of it like a comma which then made me think of clauses and the like
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(C) is correctmoney9111 wrote:Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational--given to complex syntactic flights are well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.
A. Like Auden, the language of James Merrill - Incorrect - Auden is compared to james' language
B. Like Auden, James Merrill's language - Incorrect - james' language is compared to auden
C. Like Auden's, James Merrill's language - Clear n Concise - Auden's language is compared to James' language
D. As with Auden, James Merrill's language - wrong usage of 'as' - here 'like' is required for comparision
E. As is Auden's the language of James Merrill - same as D
