After years of working on Wall Street, an apartment in lower Manhattan still felt like his home for famed investment banker John E. Callan, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton.
A) an apartment in lower Manhattan still felt like his home for famed investment banker John E. Callan, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
B) famed investment banker John E. Callan still considered his lower Manhattan apartment home, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
C) an apartment in lower Manhattan still felt like home for famed investment banker John E. Callan, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
D) John E. Callan, a famed investment banker, still considered his lower Manhattan apartment home, even though he too owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
E) famed investment banker John E. Callan still considered his lower Manhattan apartment home, even despite his owning of a house in Rye and in East Hampton
OA after sometime!
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Hmmm... We can eliminate option A & C due to incorrect usage of modifier. Both A and C illogically modifies an apartment.GmatKiss wrote:After years of working on Wall Street, an apartment in lower Manhattan still felt like his home for famed investment banker John E. Callan, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton.
A) an apartment in lower Manhattan still felt like his home for famed investment banker John E. Callan, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
B) famed investment banker John E. Callan still considered his lower Manhattan apartment home, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
C) an apartment in lower Manhattan still felt like home for famed investment banker John E. Callan, even though he also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
D) John E. Callan, a famed investment banker, still considered his lower Manhattan apartment home, even though he too owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton
E) famed investment banker John E. Callan still considered his lower Manhattan apartment home, even despite his owning of a house in Rye and in East Hampton
OA after sometime!
option E is incorrect because of 'even despite' - awkward and unidiomatic
option D -- Vague! also the usage 'he too' looks awkward to me.
Option B is CORRECT. Properly modifies 'Famed investment banker John E. Callan'. Rest of the sentence is also clear.
B is the winner here.
In choice D, "even though he too owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton", effectively means there were other people who owned house in Rye ..... => Doesn't make sense in context of the sentence.
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In choice D, "even though he too owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton", effectively means there were other people who owned house in Rye ..... => Doesn't make sense in context of the sentence.
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IMO B .
D mentions he too owns a house.. so it means that there are other people who own houses there.. This is not what the statement intends to mean..!!
D mentions he too owns a house.. so it means that there are other people who own houses there.. This is not what the statement intends to mean..!!