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by ska7945 » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:05 pm
In her later poems, Phyllis Wheatley's blending of solar imagery, Judeo-Christian thought and figures, and the images she borrowed from ancient classicism suggesting her range and depth of influences, not the least of which is her African heritage.

(A) the images she borrowed from ancient classicism suggesting
(B) borrowing images from ancient classicism, suggests
(C) she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests
(D) images borrowed from ancient classicism suggests
(E) images that she borrowed from ancient classicism, suggesting

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by ska7945 » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:09 pm
(A) the images she borrowed from ancient classicism suggesting
(B) borrowing images from ancient classicism, suggests
(C) she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests
(D) images borrowed from ancient classicism suggests
(E) images that she borrowed from ancient classicism, suggesting

with a, c, e, the sentence would not have verb.
between b and d, d sounded better.
my question is "suggests" is verb then what is the subject?
i just hate inverted sentence.
can anybody advise how to approach inverted sentence more clearly?...
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by aj5105 » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:46 pm
It goes like this.

Phyllis Wheatley's blending of X,Y & Z suggests ....

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by nitya34 » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:21 pm
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by schumi_gmat » Sun Nov 16, 2008 4:16 pm
A) the images she borrowed from ancient classicism suggesting
(B) borrowing images from ancient classicism, suggests
(C) she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests
(D) images borrowed from ancient classicism suggests
(E) images that she borrowed from ancient classicism, suggesting

She is not a possessive pronoun and hence any answer with she is eliminated, whic leaves us B and D

B is wrong because borrowing is not parallel.

Here blending of X Y and Z is correct parallelism
x= solar imagery
y= thoughts and ...
z = images borrowed...

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by nervesofsteel » Wed Nov 19, 2008 11:15 pm
D it is..

Though finding of subject "blending" was TOUGH

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by fred3win » Sun Dec 05, 2010 7:25 am
But I wonder, " not the least of which is her African heritage", what does which refer to ?
thanks. really confused...

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by fitzgerald23 » Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:38 pm
fred3win wrote:But I wonder, " not the least of which is her African heritage", what does which refer to ?
thanks. really confused...
That refers to her influences.

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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Dec 05, 2010 9:00 pm
nervesofsteel wrote:D it is..

Though finding of subject "blending" was TOUGH
Beware lists in SC; sometimes I replace the entire list with the word "stuff" to simplify, as in:

In her later poems, Phyllis Wheatley's blending of [stuff] suggests her range and depth of influences, not the least of which is her African heritage.

It can make it easier to spot the subject.

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by mankey » Sun Nov 06, 2011 6:47 am
But I wonder, " not the least of which is her African heritage", what does which refer to ?
thanks. really confused..
Please answer to this question, as asked by someone before on this thread.

Thanks.

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by tracyyahoo » Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:24 pm
That's right, if you get blending of x,y and z, this question is within to be taken.

nervesofsteel wrote:D it is..

Though finding of subject "blending" was TOUGH

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by vishal.pathak » Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:06 pm
ska7945 wrote:In her later poems, Phyllis Wheatley's blending of solar imagery, Judeo-Christian thought and figures, and the images she borrowed from ancient classicism suggesting her range and depth of influences, not the least of which is her African heritage.

(A) the images she borrowed from ancient classicism suggesting
(B) borrowing images from ancient classicism, suggests
(C) she borrowed images from ancient classicism, which suggests
(D) images borrowed from ancient classicism suggests
(E) images that she borrowed from ancient classicism, suggesting

oa D
Isn't the subject plural here. If it is, shouldn't we use "suggest" instead of "suggests".

Please explain

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by lunarpower » Sat Dec 10, 2011 6:19 am
vishal.pathak wrote: Isn't the subject plural here. If it is, shouldn't we use "suggest" instead of "suggests".
the subject is "the blending of X, Y, and Z", not just "X, Y, and Z".
this construction -- like all gerunds (-ING nouns) -- is singular.
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