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by [email protected] » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:15 pm
At age four, Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents.

A. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents
B. Mozart's father began taking the boy on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his musical talents
C. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his own musical talents
D. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of Europe's capitals, to demonstrate his musical talents
E. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate the boy's musical talents[/u]
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by rockeyb » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:24 pm
[email protected] wrote:At age four, Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents.

A. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents
B. Mozart's father began taking the boy on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his musical talents
C. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his own musical talents
D. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of Europe's capitals, to demonstrate his musical talents
E. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate the boy's musical talents[/u]

Well I dont think any of the options are correct , if at all I were to choose one I would pick E .

In all the options A, B , C ,D the pronoun HIS is ambiguous .

But in E I suspect has a modifier issue as At age four should modify Mozart and not Mozart's Father.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
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by [email protected] » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:28 pm
3-2 split as 'At age four' should modify Mozart.
I was not able to choose between C and D.

I chose D for its concision, but the answer is C

Please help ?
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by rockeyb » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:34 pm
Ahhh !!! yes I see the difference .

See the subject Mozart in C and D but in C one important word that is easy to miss is HIS OWN and that conveys the meaning and use of HIS here is justified .

Where as in A , B and D HIS could refer to Mozart or Mozart's father any one .

E has a modifier issue .
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by Shawshank » Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:57 am
i was inclined towards "E" .. but the modifier was'nt matchinign,,,,

Strange sentence though,,,, Mozart accompanied is father at the age of 12..... Is it correct..
Isnt it diff from Mozarts father began taking him ..
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by harshavardhanc » Wed Apr 14, 2010 4:07 am
[email protected] wrote:At age four, Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents.

A. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents
B. Mozart's father began taking the boy on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his musical talents
C. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his own musical talents
D. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of Europe's capitals, to demonstrate his musical talents
E. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate the boy's musical talents[/u]
"Mozart" should start the modified clause. Hence, C and D remain. Out of these two, "Europe's capitals" in D is nonsensical.

Also, the pronoun HIS refers back to the immediate proper-noun "Mozart". So C is the credited response here.
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by akhpad » Wed Apr 14, 2010 5:11 am
At age four, Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents.

A. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, in order to demonstrate his musical talents
B. Mozart's father began taking the boy on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his musical talents
C. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his own musical talents
D. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of Europe's capitals, to demonstrate his musical talents
E. Mozart's father began taking him on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate the boy's musical talents

a possessive pronoun can refer to possessive antecedent but other pronouns can't. I changed to red wherever I found issues.

Now, we have only C and D.
I prefer C to D because they user Europe's capitals

Ans: C
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by sumanr84 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 10:34 pm
Lets discuss C again,

C. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his own musical talents

what basically is happening in the BOLD statement above. BOLD part is an infinitive Phrase and when an infinitive phrase concludes a main clause, you need no punctuation to connect the two sentence parts
ex - Janice and her friends went to the mall to flirt with the cute guys who congregate at the food court.

https://www.chompchomp.com/terms/infinitivephrase.htm

Could someone justify the usage of COMMA before infinitive here ?
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by viju9162 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:59 am
Dear Sumanr84,

I also read somewhere, but unable to recollect that infinitives cannot be uses as phrases with comma preceding it. I am not sure whether C is the answer.

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by ashish2104 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 5:28 am
IMO C.

The two contenders are C and D.

The main difference btw the 2 is higlighted.
C. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of the capitals of Europe, to demonstrate his own musical talents
D. Mozart began accompanying his father on tours of Europe's capitals, to demonstrate his musical talents

Logically, mozart toured with his father to see VARIOUS capitals in EUROPE (Europe contains many countries). Hence, C.

D sounds as if Europe has multiple capitals. This would be absurd.
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