Got it Stacy....Was looking at it the other way..Bahhh! Need to practice more..

I can see the idiom "pronounced XY" only in the OA...Would someone please tell me if that's the only way to use "pronounced"?

Stacey Koprince wrote:

In the second question


There is one more hint.

In C, D, E .. the options end with IT. here the IT does not make sense ?

Right! The "it" is grammatically incorrect here, so that's a valid reason to eliminate C, D, and E.

the word "it" would refer to "the work" but this whole clause already starts with "the work" so we don't want to repeat it. I can't say: "The work that he pronounced the work the greatest..." It's just "the work that he pronounced the greatest..."

So whats the OA for the 2 ques???

IMO -
1 - C
2 - B

I'm not sure that the source of first question is a good one.

It makes simple mistake of "oil price about oil inventory" in the non underlined portion.It should be "price of oil inventory" or more clearly "price of oil".

Another issue : 'act languishing the drop".You act on something. Also languishing drop of what?.As such this Sentectence structure is totally illogical.

pls tell correct choice in Q1.

(B) is the answer for me.

IMO : B

In C, that and It refers to the same thing which is repetitive and grammatically incorrect.

are u choosing C for the first or the last question?

Yes for 2nd question.[/quote]

(B) from me for the second question.

so i got the right answer for both, but took me 8 minutes When it comes to verbal, I always need to spend so much more time on it.

a
it is on OG

In 1713, Alexander Pope began his translation of the Iliad, a work that, taking him seven years until completion and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced the greatest translation of any language.

(A) his translation of the Iliad, a work that, taking him seven years until completion and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced
(B) his translation of the Iliad, a work that took him seven years and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced
(C) his translation of the Iliad, a work that had taken him seven years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as
(D) translating Iliad, a work that, took seven years until completion and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it as
(E) translating the Iliad, a work that had taken him seven years to complete and literary critical Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary, pronounced it

I got the Answer (B) for the above. Is that the right answer? I eliminated C, D and E because of the "pronounced it" and between (A) and (B), (B) sounded like the more accurate sentence.

Where has this question come from? You could easily argue that each answer is wrong. B for example...you can't say that a work "took someone seven years." What does that even mean? "Took him seven years to complete" maybe.


Actually I see what went wrong. The person that posted this question forgot the "complete" in B. Lol FAIL

Here is the original:
"b)his translation of the Iliad,a work that took seven years to complete and that literary critic Samuel Johnson, Pope's contemporary,pronounced"

I got D for the first one and C for the second one.