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A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competitor driven by a will to succeed and inspiring to fans and opponents alike, as the best pitcher in professional baseball today. a)inspiring b)inspired c)inspires d)is inspiring e)he inspired
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07 Aug 2011, 13:26
+1 A C, D, and E create clauses, which wouldn't be connected in a correct way. So out. B doesn't have a right meaning. In A, we have two adjectives parallel.
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07 Aug 2011, 13:31
Also, I think "will to succeed" and "inspiring to his ..." are parallel
b)inspired [to] doesn't make sense with the rest of the sentence.
c)inspires - changes the meaning
d)is inspiring - not parallel
e)he inspired - awkward and not parallel
What is the OA? I am still not sure about this one.
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+1 for A.
"and" is being used as a comparator. The first thing to check immediately is that the entities that are being compared are parallel( apples with apples; oranges with oranges). A compares noun phrases (will to suceed) with another noun phrase (inspiring to his).
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This is just a test of // ism of participles in a two-part appositive modifier involving driven and inspiring; Driven is a past participle and inspiring is a present participle. I do not think any thing is being compared with any thing here B. inspired to fans – inspire x is the right idiom in the active voice, inspired to x is unidiomatic C – Same as in B: in addition inspire and driven are un//. D. un// E. he inspired and driven –un//. A is the choice
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Scott Smith, a fierce competitor ... Scott Smith, inspiring to fans .. A
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08 Aug 2011, 09:50
I think the answer should be (A)
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LifeChanger wrote: daagh wrote: This is just a test of // ism of participles in a two-part appositive modifier involving driven and inspiring; Driven is a past participle and inspiring is a present participle. I do not think any thing is being compared with any thing here
B. inspired to fans – inspire x is the right idiom in the active voice, inspired to x is unidiomatic
C – Same as in B: in addition inspire and driven are un//.
D. un//
E. he inspired and driven –un//.
A is the choice Thanks for the explanation.. Is it A?? Whats the OA?? and source
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Good Explanation daagh. Does it mean that appositive modifiers can use present and past participles together and still make the sentence parallel?
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a [#permalink]
08 Nov 2011, 01:39
+ 1 for A. This is a classic case of faulty parallelism.
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rphardu wrote: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competitor driven by a will to succeed and inspiring to fans and opponents alike, as the best pitcher in professional baseball today. a)inspiring b)inspired c)inspires d)is inspiring e)he inspired
I feel its D.
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a [#permalink]
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IMO-A,
a)inspiring- Correct
b)inspired- past tense.Incorrect
c)inspires- Inpsires to is uncorrect
d)is inspiring- Is inspiring is not parallel
e)he inspired-same as b).
OA please.
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a [#permalink]
14 Dec 2011, 09:26
Hi,
I still cant figure out why D is wrong.. is it because of is? I get why B;C;E are wrong..
but I picked D and cant uderstand with A is better
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a [#permalink]
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IMO A. I believe the OA for this question is still pending.
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a [#permalink]
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I got wrong, C instead of A. Miss the word "inspiring" is the adjective in present participle form.
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rphardu wrote: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competitor driven by a will to succeed and inspiring to fans and opponents alike, as the best pitcher in professional baseball today. a)inspiring b)inspired c)inspires d)is inspiring e)he inspired Strike 1=> Parallelism => d, e out Strike 2 => participle form for parallelism => c out Strike 3 => not past tense => b out hence A
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