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by richachampion » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:05 pm
The 19-year-old pianist and composer performed his most recent work all over Europe, Asia, and North America last year, winning prestigious awards in both London as well as Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, and he is hoping to continue composing now that he has returned to Chicago.

A. winning prestigious awards in both London as well as Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, and he is hoping
B. winning prestigious awards both in London and Tokyo for his achievement at such a young age, and hoping
C. having won prestigious awards both in London and Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, hoping
D. winning prestigious awards in both London and Tokyo for his achievement at such a young age, and he hopes
E. having won prestigious awards both in London as well as Tokyo for his achievement at so young an age, and he hopes

AND is testing ||'sm right?

Please some one help me with the usage of Verb+ing modifier. I thank you in advance.
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Thu Jul 23, 2015 4:40 am
Let's just go through some things for each answer:

A) 'as well as' is redundant...
B) 'both' should come after 'in'
C) 'winning prestigious ... a young age' in this case is a participial phrase (which are always adjectives). As there is not a list of such phrases ', hoping is incorrect because the sentence would read 'The 19-year-old pianist and composer performed his most recent work all over Europe, Asia, and North America last year hoping to continue' this makes no sense.
E) 'as well as' is redundant...


Hope that helps... pick out the easy things to eliminate answers.
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by TheGmatTutor » Thu Jul 23, 2015 8:16 am
As Jim points out, this is not really a parallelism question. The answer choices with "hoping" don't make sense in the context of the sentence, or they have other errors that allow you to eliminate them.
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