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After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope that he might finish before the deadline. A. After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope B. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he began to hope C. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he begun to hope D. When the essay started to take shape after working on it for two hours, he began to hope E. After working for two hours, the student's essay started to take shape, and he began to hope Please explain why can't A be the right choice.....
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avaneeshvyas wrote: After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope that he might finish before the deadline.
A. After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
B. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he began to hope
C. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he begun to hope
D. When the essay started to take shape after working on it for two hours, he began to hope
E. After working for two hours, the student's essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
Please explain why can't A be the right choice..... misplaced modifier in A suggests that essay started to take shape after working for 2 hours... B is free of grammatical and logical errors. C has 'he begun to hope' incorrect tense D is illogical. has essay started to take shape after working on something? what is 'it'? E again has misplaced modifier. It suggests that Student's essay, after working for 2 hours, started to take shape. Ans B it is.
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Vips0000 wrote: avaneeshvyas wrote: After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope that he might finish before the deadline.
A. After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
B. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he began to hope
C. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he begun to hope
D. When the essay started to take shape after working on it for two hours, he began to hope
E. After working for two hours, the student's essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
Please explain why can't A be the right choice..... misplaced modifier in A suggests that essay started to take shape after working for 2 hours... B is free of grammatical and logical errors. C has 'he begun to hope' incorrect tense D is illogical. has essay started to take shape after working on something? what is 'it'? E again has misplaced modifier. It suggests that Student's essay, after working for 2 hours, started to take shape. Ans B it is. But then essay did start taking shape after 2 hours of work on it......isn't it so? Please help me understand the mistake Ï am making....
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avaneeshvyas wrote: Vips0000 wrote: avaneeshvyas wrote: After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope that he might finish before the deadline.
A. After working for two hours, the essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
B. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he began to hope
C. When the essay started to take shape after he had worked on it for two hours, he begun to hope
D. When the essay started to take shape after working on it for two hours, he began to hope
E. After working for two hours, the student's essay started to take shape, and he began to hope
Please explain why can't A be the right choice..... misplaced modifier in A suggests that essay started to take shape after working for 2 hours... B is free of grammatical and logical errors. C has 'he begun to hope' incorrect tense D is illogical. has essay started to take shape after working on something? what is 'it'? E again has misplaced modifier. It suggests that Student's essay, after working for 2 hours, started to take shape. Ans B it is. But then essay did start taking shape after 2 hours of work on it......isn't it so? Please help me understand the mistake Ï am making.... who was working? essays were working for 2 hours or 'he' was working on essay? when you say: After working for two hours, the essay ..... the modifier 'After working for two hours' modified the first word after comma which is the essay. Suggesting that essay was working. Hence incorrect. Hope it helps.
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15 Nov 2012, 20:31
Interesting problem. I would probably get lucky by picking B over D here on intuition, but maybe not. A and E are out for sounding as though the the essay is working in the stockyards or somethign, btw.
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