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awkward sentence structure(NYtimes) [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2015, 07:45
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I came across this sentence while reading NYtimes. Can some one demystify the structure of this sentence with respect to the modifiers?(something doesn't seem right with this sentence).

" Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese laborers have updated the Great Wall Station, a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court, domes to protect satellite stations and sleeping quarters for 150 people."


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Re: awkward sentence structure(NYtimes) [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2015, 07:54
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Experts !

I came across this sentence while reading NYtimes. Can some one demystify the structure of this sentence with respect to the modifiers?(something doesn't seem right with this sentence).

" Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese laborers have updated the Great Wall Station, a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court, domes to protect satellite stations and sleeping quarters for 150 people."


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Hi,
the sentence is correctly modifying the terms..
there are two modifiers..
1) Less than an hour away by snowmobile.... this correctly modifies chinese labours...
the chinese labours are the ones who can reach the Great Wall station in less than an hour using the vehicle " snowmobile"..
Its speaking of th ephysical location of chinese labours..

2)a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court..
it correctly modifies the great wall station...
Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese laborers have updated the Great Wall Station, a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court, domes to protect satellite stations and sleeping quarters for 150 people.
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Re: awkward sentence structure(NYtimes) [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2015, 08:08
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solitaryreaper wrote:
Experts !

I came across this sentence while reading NYtimes. Can some one demystify the structure of this sentence with respect to the modifiers?(something doesn't seem right with this sentence).

" Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese laborers have updated the Great Wall Station, a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court, domes to protect satellite stations and sleeping quarters for 150 people."


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Hi,
the sentence is correctly modifying the terms..
there are two modifiers..
1) Less than an hour away by snowmobile.... this correctly modifies chinese labours...
the chinese labours are the ones who can reach the Great Wall station in less than an hour using the vehicle " snowmobile"..
Its speaking of th ephysical location of chinese labours..

2)a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court..
it correctly modifies the great wall station...
Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese laborers have updated the Great Wall Station, a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court, domes to protect satellite stations and sleeping quarters for 150 people.


Hi Chetan,

I thought like this :

What is less than an hour away by snowmobile ? must be noun representing a physical location. Isn't it?

Secondly,

"a linchpin in China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica" is an appositive that is modifying Great Wall Station(noun that it touches).

while ," complete with an indoor badminton court, domes to protect satellite stations and sleeping quarters for 150 people." is a long noun modifier which should modify again modify Great Wall Station.

Structure looks like:
Modifier1, clause, modier2, long modifier3.

though this structure when we have long modifiers in a sequence should raise a red flag.

Please correct me.

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Re: awkward sentence structure(NYtimes) [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2015, 08:38
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this is not a SC. It is a question that MUST go in general verbal section.

Move it. Please follow the rules: who post the question itself and who reply to it.

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Re: awkward sentence structure(NYtimes) [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2015, 09:05
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this is not a SC. It is a question that MUST go in general verbal section.

Move it. Please follow the rules: who post the question itself and who reply to it.

Thank you.

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Hi,
Thanks for doing it...
It may be best where it has been shifted
But I wonder if its not related to SC unless you meant that SC does not mean theory part but just the SC questions..

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