Sentence Correction

Hi All,

In the below question, the OA is [spoiler]"C"[/spoiler]. Can someone please tell the reason to kick out the option D.

Is it because it does not follow "noun...noun parallelism ?

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The federalist papers, a strong defense of the United States Constitution and important as a body of work in political science as well, represents the handiwork of three different authors.

(A) and important as a body of wok in political science as well, represents
(B) and an important body of work in political science, represents
(C) as well as an important body of work in political science, represent
(D) as well as important as a body of work in political science, are representative of
(E) ,an important body of work in political science as well, and representative of

D sounds awkward to me. Also it is distorting the meaning.

madhur_ahuja wrote:D sounds awkward to me. Also it is distorting the meaning.

Can you please elaborate a bit....how does it distort the meaning ?

goelmohit2002 wrote:

madhur_ahuja wrote:D sounds awkward to me. Also it is distorting the meaning.

Can you please elaborate a bit....how does it distort the meaning ?

important is an adjective and hence should be placed next to noun it modifies.

important body is better than important as a body.

madhur_ahuja wrote:

goelmohit2002 wrote:

madhur_ahuja wrote:D sounds awkward to me. Also it is distorting the meaning.

Can you please elaborate a bit....how does it distort the meaning ?

important is an adjective and hence should be placed next to noun it modifies.

important body is better than important as a body.

Is it right to write it as follows?
The federalist papers are representative of the handiwork of three different authors.

mittalashwani13 wrote:Is it right to write it as follows?
The federalist papers are representative of the handiwork of three different authors.

Although surely C looks better then this....but I am not sure whether the above sentence has any other GMAT disliking except awkwardness...

But I am not sure except for sounding awkward....why it is awkward ?

Can someone please explain ?

D uses 'as important as,' which distorts the meaning of the original phrase.

Correct - It distorts the meaning. The original sentence implies that the papers were important "being" body of work in political science. In other words, the property of the papers that they were "body of work in Political science", makes them important.

Option D means that their importance was same as the "body of work in Political Science"....

Even if the meaning were correct, I think it appears awkward because of this..
In option D two constructs are used - "as well as" and "as important as X".

They are different - former is a subordinator used for joining and latter is a adjective phrase. The ending "as" of the former and the starting "as" of the latter is combined which makes it awkward.

why is Federalist papers not singular? as the the sentence goes Federalist papers, a strong defense
Should the sub (Federalist papers) be followed by verb represents?

Optimus Prime wrote:why is Federalist papers not singular? as the the sentence goes Federalist papers, a strong defense
Should the sub (Federalist papers) be followed by verb represents?

yes... I also believe that It is an Singular Subject...!

it is an institution... group noun.. so shud be singular...

Experts can put some comments on this issue...!

The federalist papers, a strong defense of the United States Constitution and important as a body of work in political science as well, represents the handiwork of three different authors.

(A) and important as a body of wok in political science as well, represents
(B) and an important body of work in political science, represents
(C) as well as an important body of work in political science, represent
(D) as well as important as a body of work in political science, are representative of
(E) ,an important body of work in political science as well, and representative of

Grammar:

The parallelism is "A strong defense AND an important body".

Subject =Papers + Represent.

=> A, B, and D are out.

E does not have a verb.

Answer is C.

->plural subject will take plural verb.- A,B are out.

->verb form is always better than adjective form verb>adjective
represent > representative

Ram is a representative of this event.--(1)
Ram represent this event.--(2)
2 is better than 1

(A) and important as a body of wok in political science as well, represents
(B) and an important body of work in political science, represents
(C) as well as an important body of work in political science, represent - correct
(D) as well as important as a body of work in political science, are representative of
represent is better
parallelism error : a strong and an important
(E) ,an important body of work in political science as well, and representative of
totally distort the meaning actually sentence fragment: no main verb exists