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by arorag » Fri May 09, 2008 7:52 pm
To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance

A. To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate
B. For Joshephine baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, paris was her home
C. Joshephine baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable expatriate
D. Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home
E. Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker

To me ans should be B what do you gys say
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by VP_Tatiana » Sat May 10, 2008 2:04 pm
I believe D would be the right answer here.

One of my trick for evaluating SCs is to take out phrases between parenthesis, and make sure everything still sounds right. Applying that to B, we would have:

For Josephine Baker, Paris was her home. (This is like saying, "Paris was her home for Josephine Baker," which is not correct.)

C uses the word expatriate twice, in a way that does not make sense.

D is a good choice for several reasons. For one, it is in the active voice. There are no dangling modifiers, and pronouns are used appropriately.

In E, "she" modifies Paris instead of Josephine.

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by chidcguy » Mon May 12, 2008 8:57 am
I do not see any parenthesis. Did you mean comma?

For Josephine Baker, Paris was her home. (This is like saying, "Paris was her home for Josephine Baker," which is not correct.)

How can we do this?. Can we just write sentences like this?

B was definitely not 100% clear to me, but the actions were more sequential for X, long before some thing became a fad, Y was her home.

In D, "Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate" seems to modify JB

Whom do you see "Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate" modifying? I thought it should modify something like the general public for whom it became a fad and not JB because it was never fashionable to be an EP for JB to start with.
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by amitansu » Mon May 12, 2008 9:59 am
To me the confusion was between B and D.
I would go with D here.

Here only expatriate modifies JB.
Although both in B and D some degree of passive voice is used, in later part of D it's said that "JB made Paris her home which eliminates the subject being passive voiced.

C is weired.
E uses wrong modifier.
A also uses wrong modifier at wrong place.
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by VP_Tatiana » Mon May 12, 2008 1:08 pm
Sorry- I meant comma. When you are checking for sentence correctness, you can indeed just remove a phrase between commas to make sure that the sentence is correct without that phrase. It is a lot easier to spot errors that way. You can think of the info between the commas as additional information, but it doesn't change the structure of the sentence. If the sentence is wrong without the phrase, it is wrong with it as well.

I'd still choose D....

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Re: Confuse

by Ur_Sky » Tue May 13, 2008 2:32 pm
arorag wrote:To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, and she remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance

A. To Josephine Baker, Paris was her home long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate
B. For Joshephine baker, long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, paris was her home
C. Joshephine baker made Paris her home long before to be an expatriate was fashionable expatriate
D. Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate, Josephine Baker made Paris her home
E. Long before it was fashionable being an expatriate, Paris was home to Josephine Baker

To me ans should be B what do you gys say
Hi. For me it is also letter D.
"Long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate" could be a dangling modifier. Modifies "made" and "remained" telling us "when?".

Original sentence would have been like this:
Josephine Baker made Paris her home and remained in France during the Second World War as a performer and an intelligence agent for the Resistance ((long before it was fashionable to be an expatriate)).
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