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85. Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.
(A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain’s first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain’s first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain’s first national museums that have sought the support of
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85. Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance. (A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from Out... as seeking is not parallel with increase(B) one of Britain’s first national museums seeking support of Out... as seeking is not parallel with increase(C) among Britain’s first national museums to seek support of among Britian's first national museums means one of the very first national museums made in Britan! This isnt correct as per the intention of the author(D) among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from Correct - among the first to seek support. Moreover 'to support' is parallel to 'to increase'(E) among Britain’s first national museums that have sought the support of have sought the support of is not the correct verb tense to be used.
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both 'seek of' and 'seek from' are not idioms
seek from 'someone' ----- seek from Jane
seek for 'something' ----- seek for money
seek to 'to something' ----- seek to buy the company
the problem here is with the use of 'support from' and 'support of'
support from 'someone' ----- support from Obama
Support of 'something' ----- support of affidavit
So, coming to the answer choices
D makes perfect use of parallelism by using 'to seek' and as it presents 'people (someone)', it's best to use 'support from'
So, D is the right answer.
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Jivana wrote: Seek should be parallel to increase. So A & B are out.
D is wrong, as explained in the original post.
Between C & E, C maintains the parallelism. So C for me. Which is the correct idiom?? "Seek of" or "Seek from"???
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Maulikgmat wrote: 85. Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.
(A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain’s first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain’s first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain’s first national museums that have sought the support of
Here the fight is between A and D..
Acc to me D is wrong because among the first of Britan's natinal museums means there were several and this one was one of them..
plz clarify Yes, that is exactly what the sentence intends to say, it was not the first, but "among/one of the" first support of is wrong, so B,C,E out. "to seek" will go with "and to increase". So D is the ans
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Seek should be parallel to increase. So A & B are out.
D is wrong, as explained in the original post.
Between C & E, C maintains the parallelism. So C for me.
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I think C is the correct ans.What is the OA?
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I would go with D.
A, B, and E are out as they violate parallelism.
C distorts the meaning of original sentence. In C, it sounds like Britain's second, third, fourth etc.....national museums exist, and Victoria and Albert Museum was among the Britain's first national museums.
D is parallel and doesn't appear to distort the meaning.
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Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.
(A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from (verb not parallel – seeking support vs. to increase)
(B) one of Britain’s first national museums seeking support of (verb not parallel – seeking vs. increase)
(C) among Britain’s first national museums to seek support of (first is used as adjective, need to be used as noun?)
(D) among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from – best answer
(E) among Britain’s first national museums that have sought the support of – (verb inconsistent)
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A. [color=#FF000]one of the first of Britain’s [/color] This is not correct
B. seeking support vs to seek This is not parallel
C. Not sure about - seek of
D. Correct[color=#FF0000][/color] to seek parallel with to increase
E. have This is not the correct verb tense
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a & b eliminated bcos of ONE of.. When there many options among is preferred.
IMO D.
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D is the correct answer. It maintains parallelism .
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Maulikgmat wrote: 85. Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.
(A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain’s first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain’s first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain’s first national museums that have sought the support of
Here the fight is between A and D..
Acc to me D is wrong because among the first of Britan's natinal museums means there were several and this one was one of them..
plz clarify My ans is D for 2 reasons To seek // to increase support from> support of
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(D) among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from
draws parallelism
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my vote for D... one among a list !
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(A) one of the first of Britain’s national museums seeking support from
can be considered
(B) one of Britain’s first national museums seeking support of
does not convey the intended meaning
(C) among Britain’s first national museums to seek support of
first national museums is gramatically incorrect
D)among the first of Britain’s national museums to seek support from
best among all
(E) among Britain’s first national museums that have sought the support of
have sought is unnecessarily wordy
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"to seek" is parallel to "to increase"
"support from" corporations....... is correct.
Hence D.
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yea. D is what i chose. 'among the first of british' and 'support from' makes it the correct choice
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I go for D correct idiom and parallel.
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seek support from..........clearly D
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