Sentence Correction

In her later poems,Phyllis Wheatley's bending of solar imagery,Judeo-Christian thought and figures ,and the images she borrowed from ancient classicisms suggesting her range and depth of influences,not the least of which is her african heritage

A.
B.borrowing images from ancient classicism,suggests

C.she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests

D.images borrowing from ancient classicism,suggests

E.images that she borrowed from ancient classicism,suggesting


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IMO E -

'Judeo-Christian thought and figures' should modify images. Hence A, B and C are out.

D - 'images borrowing from ancient classicism,suggests' - lacks clear referrent. who is borrowing the images?

that leaves us with 'E'.

Losing the modifiers at the start and end, this sentence is constructed in the following manner:

Phyllis Wheatley's bending of A, B, and C suggests her range and depth of influences.

In this case, the correct AC should end with suggests to agree with bending (singular), which is the subject. So I think only B and D are left.

The problem is that the list A, B, and C is incomplete.
A=solar imagery
B=Judeo-Christian thought and figures (a two item list on its own, creating a list within a list)
C must be (1) a noun that is not gerund (v+ing) because it's something she bends, (2) preceded by and, as it's the last item.

Which leads me to think it's D and to boldly ask gauravgundal :roll: - are you sure the word and is underlined in the question?

IMO - B

suggests is the right choice ... Hence, B vs D

to me .. B is parallel too ... bending, borrowing

IMO B.

Expln:
Suggests shoulb be there so B & D.
"figures borrowing images" makes sense than "figures images borrowing"

OA?

My Answer is "B"..

My answer is
'B'

A.
B.borrowing images from ancient classicism,suggests

C.she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests

D.images borrowing from ancient classicism,suggests

E.images that she borrowed from ancient classicism,suggesting

B. structurally incorrect.
C. no need for the presence of the pronoun "she"
D. Structurally and logically correct
E. use of past tense incorrect?

In her later poems,Phyllis Wheatley's bending of solar imagery,Judeo-Christian thought and figures ,and the images she borrowed from ancient classicisms suggesting her range and depth of influences,not the least of which is her african heritage

SENTENCE STRUCTURE IS:
OPENING PHRASE MODIFYING JUDEO: In her later poems,
EXAMPLE OF POEMS: Phyllis Wheatley's bending of solar imagery,
MAIN CLAUSE: Judeo-Christian thought and figures,

MODIFIER: ...
and the images she borrowed from ancient classicisms suggesting her range and depth of influences,not the least of which is her african heritage


A. WRONG - SENTENCE FRAGMENT ..MAIN VERB MISSING
B.borrowing images from ancient classicism,suggests
WHAT DOES BORROWING MODIFIES HERE...JUDEO.. INCORRECT
C.she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests
MAIN VERB MISSING
D.images borrowing from ancient classicism,suggests
CORRECT ... JUDEO X AND Y SUGGEST ...
E.images that she borrowed from ancient classicism,suggesting
MAIN VERB MISSING

gauravgundal wrote:In her later poems,Phyllis Wheatley's bending of solar imagery,Judeo-Christian thought and figures ,and the images she borrowed from ancient classicisms suggesting her range and depth of influences,not the least of which is her african heritage

A.
B.borrowing images from ancient classicism,suggests

C.she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests

D.images borrowing from ancient classicism,suggests

E.images that she borrowed from ancient classicism,suggesting


plz answer the reason for ur selected answer..
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My first answer is "none of the above", which isn't an official answer. If this question has been correctly typed (which I strongly doubt), then it's one of the worst written "official" questions I've ever seen.

My guess for the correct answer is (D), with the following 2 changes:

first, the word "bending" in the sentence should be "blending"; and

second, answer (D) likely read:

and images borrowed from ancient classicism, suggests

The basic sentence structure is:

"Phyllis's blending of A, B and C suggests X."

(The subject is "blending", which is why we use the singular verb "suggests".)

The answer can't be B. Wheatly's borrowing could possibly suggest something, but this changes the intended meaning of the sentence; the initial sentence presents the fact that the images borrowed from ancient classicisms.

OA - D
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man, please take the time to type the questions and answers correctly. i was wracking my head over this one until I saw the actual question:

In her later poems, Phyllis Wheatley's blending of solar images, Judeo-Christian thought and figures, and the images she borrowed from the ancient classicism suggesting her range and depth of influences, not the least of which is her African heritage.

A) the images she borrowed from the ancient classicism suggesting

B) borrowing images from ancient classicism, which suggests

C) she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests

D) images borrowed from ancient classicism suggests

E) images that she borrowed from ancient classicism, suggesting

rookiez wrote:In her later poems,Phyllis Wheatley's bending of solar imagery,Judeo-Christian thought and figures ,and the images she borrowed from ancient classicisms suggesting her range and depth of influences,not the least of which is her african heritage

SENTENCE STRUCTURE IS:
OPENING PHRASE MODIFYING JUDEO: In her later poems,
EXAMPLE OF POEMS: Phyllis Wheatley's bending of solar imagery,
MAIN CLAUSE: Judeo-Christian thought and figures,

MODIFIER: ...
and the images she borrowed from ancient classicisms suggesting her range and depth of influences,not the least of which is her african heritage


A. WRONG - SENTENCE FRAGMENT ..MAIN VERB MISSING
B.borrowing images from ancient classicism,suggests
WHAT DOES BORROWING MODIFIES HERE...JUDEO.. INCORRECT
C.she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests
MAIN VERB MISSING
D.images borrowing from ancient classicism,suggests
CORRECT ... JUDEO X AND Y SUGGEST ...
E.images that she borrowed from ancient classicism,suggesting
MAIN VERB MISSING

Can somebody please explain me how the main verb in C and E, I thought the main verb is borrow there.