stormier wrote:PGMAT wrote:Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.
a) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted
b) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted both
c) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted
d) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rooted
e) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both
OA is D. Can some one explain why B is incorrect? Aren't the commas necessary in this case?
Source: gmatprep
Thanks.
None of the options that use both is correct.
Option B says -
produced a body of work rooted
both in the stride-piano tradition of WS and DE...
It would have been correct if it read as - ...body of work rooted in the stride-piano tradition of
both WS and DE
It would have also been correct if it read as - ..body of work rooted both
in the stride-piano tradition of WS and DE and
in ........, yet
None of the options with both (A, B and E) has a parallel structure.
The following are parallel
both in X and in Y
in both X and Y
Option D is correct - the work was rooted in only one thing and not two, the one thing being - the stride-piano tradition of WS and DE.
Hope it helps
this is an excellent deconstruction of the parallelism problem, yes.
to the original poster -- no sense in asking "aren't the commas necessary"; remember that
correct answers are always correct!
"isn't this wrong" is a pointless question to ask about officially correct answers; the answer will always be "no, it's not wrong".
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in this case:
this is a special idiom. if you preface someone's name with a noun describing their occupation (or other NOUN describing
what that person does), you DO NOT use a comma.
if there's an indefinite article ("a/an"), you DO use a comma. if there's a definite article ("the"), then you generally don't.
if it's an adjective, you DO use a comma.
example:
Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ... --> correct
A jazz pianist and composer, Thelonious Monk ... --> correct
The jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk ... --> correct
Creative and original, Thelonious Monk ... --> correct
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