Sentence Correction

paes wrote:Plays by Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of the first female authors to earn a living by writing.

(A) Plays by Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of
(B) Aphra Behn that they performed was published in England in the 1670s, thus making her one of
(C) Aphra Behn that they performed by the Duke's Company, was published in the 1670s , making her one of
(D) Aphra Behn, performed by the Duke's Company,were published in the 1670s, making Behn one of
(E) ..

OA Later
Source : Veritas test

paes wrote:Plays by Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of the first female authors to earn a living by writing.

(A) Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of
(B) Aphra Behn that they performed was published in England in the 1670s, thus making her one of
(C) Aphra Behn that they performed by the Duke's Company, was published in the 1670s , making her one of
(D) Aphra Behn, performed by the Duke's Company,were published in the 1670s, making Behn one of
(E) ..

OA Later
Source : Veritas test

paes wrote:Plays by Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of the first female authors to earn a living by writing.

(A) Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of
(B) Aphra Behn that they performed was published in England in the 1670s, thus making her one of
(C) Aphra Behn that they performed by the Duke's Company, was published in the 1670s , making her one of
(D) Aphra Behn, performed by the Duke's Company,were published in the 1670s, making Behn one of
(E) ..

OA Later
Source : Veritas test

paes wrote:OA is D:

niksworth@,

I have corrected the underlined part. thanks
(This is the problem when you type an sentence correction problme. )
E was clearly out, so I didn't put it.

OA is D.

I also selected A, with the same thinking as niksworth has given,

but explanation is saying that : there is no referent for 'her' in A, which I don't agree.

RyanDark,

can you please justify this point, How there is no referent for 'her'.
I think 'her' is clearly pointing to Aphra Behn.

paes wrote:Mohit,

I don't agree with you.
I think both the sentences are correct :

I am good at playing, and dancing
I went to the Australia, and danced through the night.

A is

Plays by X performed by Y and published in ....> , made her one of the first female authors to earn a living by writing.
I am not seeing anything wrong here.

But if you see E :
It looks that it is changing the meaning of the sentence. More emphasis is given on year of publication.
Also 'making' is modifying to plays - an innate subject, such construction is generally wrong.

mohit11 wrote:

paes wrote:Plays by Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of the first female authors to earn a living by writing.

(A) Aphra Behn performed by the Duke's Company, and published in England in the 1670s, made her one of
(B) Aphra Behn that they performed was published in England in the 1670s, thus making her one of
(C) Aphra Behn that they performed by the Duke's Company, was published in the 1670s , making her one of
(D) Aphra Behn, performed by the Duke's Company,were published in the 1670s, making Behn one of
(E) ..

OA Later
Source : Veritas test

Niks - , and is never a correct connector unless there is a word like thus along with ,and

I am good at playing, and dancing - incorrect
I went to the Australia, and danced through the night - Incorrect.

I went to Australia's theme park, and thus saw Australian performers. - Correct

When we use ,and construction there is usually a because relationship between part before , and part after ,

- Thus A is incorrect.

B and C have ambiguous pronoun they

D is grammatically correct

niksworth wrote:

mohit11 wrote: Mohit,
Both 1 and 2 are correct. Use of comma before and while listing things is commonly used by a lot of authors. There is nothing ungrammatical about it. There has been some debate on it but most of the commonly accepted style guides support its use.

Read William Strunk's Elements of Style.
Also refer to -
1) United States Government Printing Office's Style Manual
2) Chicago Manual of Style
3) The Oxford Style Manual,

Perhaps my earlier example was incorrect ( still need to check that though) - Following examples( Directly quoting Ron from MGMAT) are 100 percent correct.

There is traffic, and I am late is incorrect
There is traffic, and thus I am late is correct

paes wrote:niksWorth@

Alpha Behn's plays made her famous.

There is no ambiguity in this sentence. A possessive pronoun can refer to a possessive noun. [ From MgMat]

Now coming to D, I am seeing 2 problems.

(1) It looks that it is changing the meaning of the sentence. More emphasis is given on year of publication in D.
While according the given choice, main emphasis is on : the plays made her first female author. [ year of publication is just an extra information ]

(2) D is a passive construction.