Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

(A) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives,
(B) In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter
(C) In her book illustrations, which she carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter
(D) Carefully coordinated with her narratives, Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations
(E) Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated them with her narratives and

Its C!

C is the only option where all the references to various nouns are well connected and make perfect sense!

All other options with "them" in it ruin the reference!
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Yes your understanding is correct but you cant compare "Walking along the road, Beatrix Potter saw several types of flowers'' because you have only Beatrix Potter as the subject but in the given problem you have "Beatrice Potter" and "her book illustrations"....

Also to quote . The explanation is correct. Assuming B is correct, look at the sentence below:

In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

Probably this will help you to understand that carefully coordinating is modifying illustrations and not Beatrice.....

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Good point..I am little confused here as well..What Carefully coordinating trying to modify..

I choose B first
then second time got it right
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'which' correctly refers to book illustration & uses " coordinated ' which is the correct tense for this sentence(Past tense).

C is the most appropriate.

fell for B
Good question BTW.

C is correct.

The trick in this one, from my perspective, is that the prepositional phrase (in her book illustrations) is interrupted by the non essential modifier phrase, in which... phrase that correctly modifies book illustrations.

Keep walking!

Hi badplanner,

Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, capitalized on her keen observation and love of the natural world.

Choice B: In her book illustrations, carefully coordinating them with her narratives, Beatrix Potter
In this choice, we have verb-ing modifier “coordinating” after comma. The rule is if the verb-ing modifier is placed after comma, then it modifies the entire preceding clause. However, in this choice, there is not clause before the comma.

You are correct in saying that Beatrix Potter did the action of “coordinating” and logically it should refer to Potter. However, the placement of this modifier is such that it fails to do what it should do. Hence, logically “coordinating” is modifying Potter but grammatically it is not because of it placement after comma.

Let’s compare this choice with the example you have presented:

Walking along the road, Beatrix Potter saw several types of flowers.

There is no modifier error in this sentence. The sentence begins with the verb-ing modifier “walking”, and correctly modifies the subject of the main clause “Beatrix Potter” because she did the action of walking. Notice here that there is no comma before the verb-ing modifier.
In choice B of this OG question, we do have a comma before the verb-ing modifier. Thus it should modify the preceding clause. But there is no clause there. I also quite don’t agree to all the explanations of OG. They have terrific questions but not all the explanations are that good.

The usage of Verb-ing Modifiers has been covered in excruciating details in the "Modifiers - Verb-ing" Concept in the Level 1 Preview Concepts. This section is available for free. Just login to e-gmat.com, register for free and learn the concept.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
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