Margaret Courtney-Clarke

[ranjeet75]

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, [u]whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house[/u].

A. whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house
B. whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography,and their style is varying among women and houses
C. whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and they are in styles that vary from woman to woman and house to house
D. with murals brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography, and their style varies among women and houses
E. with murals that are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography,and their styles vary among women and houses

OA is [spoiler]A[/spoiler], why [spoiler]C[/spoiler] is wrong?
[spoiler]Is B is wrong only due to the use of "among"[/spoiler]

[e-GMAT]

OA is A, why C is wrong?
[spoiler]Is B is wrong only due to the use of "among"[/spoiler]

Hi,

Let us first discuss the meaning of the sentence here.



"¢ The sentence means that Margaret Courtney-Clarke has visited remote houses in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women.
"¢ The murals made by these women are brilliantly colored.
"¢ The geometric symmetries that they use are embellished:
o with old and new iconography, and
o in style that varies form woman to woman and house to house.

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and their style is varying among women and houses.

This is the sentence with choice B. This choice is incorrect because:
i. This choice is a run-on sentence. There are two independent clauses joined together only with a comma. This sentence structure is incorrect.
ii. Dependent clause "whose murals..." is not parallel to independent clause "their geometrical..." and "their style...". Parallelism error
iii. Phrase "varying among women and house" is awkward.

Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and they are in styles that vary from woman to woman and house to house.

This is the sentence with choice C. This choice is incorrect because:
i. Same sentence structure error as in B.
ii. Same parallelism error as in B.

Hope this helps.
Shraddha