24. 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 embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house.
(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

The second half of the sentence helps!

B..second half uses present progressive...but the first half is in simple past.."has traveled"..incorrect

D and E are wrong... Among women and houses.

A...I think the sentence is describing a plural subjects....

murals , symmetries and styles

So we need "styles" and so "vary" to accurately describe the plural subject

C corrects the problem with A... C is best

its B, the ands in A are redunctant. And C has a pronoun problem "they"

the ones with with are sucky, non idiomatic?

My choice is B.

nike,
B sounds ridiculous, it implies variation among women and houses - incomparable subjucts. If not A then C imo.

Is there any rule around vary among?
Are you sure it is incorrect to use varies among women and houses?
If not I guess right answer is E.

I was going through some old posts and found this interesting one.

I choose A.

Comments?

A is the correct answer but can someone grammatically deconstruct the sentence with option A ? Construction of this sentence is worth studying so let's give it a shot. Please furnish details of roles played each of the phrase/fragments (subject, predicate, depedent/independent clause, participle, modifier etc). I'll add my 2 cents after you.
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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 embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house

subject:

noun:
"Margaret Courtney-Clarke"

predicate:

verb:
traveled
has traveled - present perfect tense

prepositional phrase:
"to remote dwellings"
"remote" functions as adjective to "dwellings"
"dwellings" functions as the d.o. of the main sentence and object of the preposition:
"to remote dwellings" functions as an adverb of "traveled"

prepositional phrase:
"in the Transvaal" functions as adverb of "traveled"

prepositional phrase:
"to photograph" functions as adverb of "traveled"

definite article:
"the"

predicate noun:
"art"

prepositional phrase:
"of Ndebele women" modifies art functioning as its adjective

relative clause:
"whose murals are brilliantly colored"
"whose" - relative pronoun
the antecedent of "whose" is "women"

subordinate clause:
"their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography"
modifies "art"
pronoun:
their
the antecedent of "their" is "women"
"symmetries" functions as a noun and "geometrical" is its adjective
"embellished" functions as a verb
"with old and new iconography" is the prepositional phrase
"with" is the preposition
"iconography" is the object of the preposition
"old and new" are the adjectives of "iconography"

prepositional phrase:
"in a style"

relative clause:
"that varies"
"that" is the relative pronoun functioning as the subject and "varies" functions as the verb of the relative clause

prepositional phrase:
"from woman to woman and house to house"

"in a style" and "from woman to woman and house to house" function as adverbs of "varies"

Thanks Swagatalakshmi,
Now ..... am I 100% correct?