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Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   26 Nov 2019, 09:01
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Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art form in the hands of Abigail Lefferts Lloyd, a Revolutionary War heroine.

(A) design, a popular pastime of colonial women, became an art form in the hands of
(B) design, a popular Colonial women’s pastime, and it became an art form in the hands of
(C) design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of
(D) design is a popular pastime of Colonial women that has become an art form by
(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for
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Re: Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   26 Nov 2019, 09:39
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Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art form in the hands of Abigail Lefferts Lloyd, a Revolutionary War heroine.

(A) design, a popular pastime of colonial women, became an art form in the hands of
(B) design, a popular Colonial women’s pastime, and it became an art form in the hands of
(C) design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of
(D) design is a popular pastime of Colonial women that has become an art form by
(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for


The structure is
Noun, noun modifier, Verb+rest of the sentence, noun modifier.
The structure is correct as it is..A

(B) design, a popular Colonial women’s pastime, and it became an art form in the hands of
There is no verb after design.
(C) design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of
The sequence is nowhere mentioned in the original. changes meaning.
(D) design is a popular pastime of Colonial women that has become an art form by
Present tense is clearly wrong. THAT cannot modify design and wrongly modifies a popular past time
(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for
change in meaning by omitting 'women'.

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Re: Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   27 Nov 2019, 06:02
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Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art form in the hands of Abigail Lefferts Lloyd, a Revolutionary War heroine.

(A) design, a popular pastime of colonial women, became an art form in the hands of ---Correct choice
(B) design, a popular Colonial women’s pastime, and it became an art form in the hands of --The first part is a fragment without a verb.
(C) design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of---This is a comma splice
(D) design is a popular pastime of Colonial women that has become an art form by--- use of present tense and present perfect are grammatically wrong for a bygone event. In addition women 'that' is wrong for using it for human beings and on SV error of women has
(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for -- change of meaning by ignoring the role of the women of the era.
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Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   06 Oct 2020, 08:05
in C .design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of

the usage of then is incorrect ? cant we use conjunction then to connect to IC ?
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Re: Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2022, 03:19
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in C .design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of

the usage of then is incorrect ? cant we use conjunction then to connect to IC ?

THEN is not a conjunction. Answer Choice (C) is wrong because it has two independent clauses without any linking conjunction.

People do sometimes use THEN as a conjunction, but such usage is considered incorrect.

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Re: Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2022, 06:50
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Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art form in the hands of Abigail Lefferts Lloyd, a Revolutionary War heroine.

(A) design, a popular pastime of colonial women, became an art form in the hands of ---Correct choice
(B) design, a popular Colonial women’s pastime, and it became an art form in the hands of --The first part is a fragment without a verb.
(C) design was a popular pastime for Colonial women, then it became an art form in the hands of---This is a comma splice
(D) design is a popular pastime of Colonial women that has become an art form by--- use of present tense and present perfect are grammatically wrong for a bygone event. In addition women 'that' is wrong for using it for human beings and on SV error of women has
(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for -- change of meaning by ignoring the role of the women of the era.

daagh, Hello Sir,
I got this question right. However, I have a question.
How do I know that "women" is important for this SC, if I don't know the context?
What I think is that it is also possible for a lady to start a popular unisex pastime. In this sense, E also makes sense to me. I don't need to mention men's pastimes or women's pastimes.
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Re: Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2022, 18:49
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daagh wrote:
Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art form in the hands of Abigail Lefferts Lloyd, a Revolutionary War heroine.
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(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for -- change of meaning by ignoring the role of the women of the era.

daagh, Hello Sir,
I got this question right. However, I have a question.
How do I know that "women" is important for this SC, if I don't know the context?
What I think is that it is also possible for a lady to start a popular unisex pastime. In this sense, E also makes sense to me. I don't need to mention men's pastimes or women's pastimes.

(Sadly, Daagh Sir isn't with us any more.)
You know 'women' is important in this context because all the other answer choices mention women. They tell us that cut-paper design was a popular pastime of Colonial women.

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Re: Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art [#permalink] New post   17 Aug 2022, 07:32
vv65 wrote:
ShahadatHJ wrote:
daagh wrote:
Cut-paper design, a popular pastime of Colonial women, became an art form in the hands of Abigail Lefferts Lloyd, a Revolutionary War heroine.
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(E) design, the popular Colonial pastime, became an art form for -- change of meaning by ignoring the role of the women of the era.

daagh, Hello Sir,
I got this question right. However, I have a question.
How do I know that "women" is important for this SC, if I don't know the context?
What I think is that it is also possible for a lady to start a popular unisex pastime. In this sense, E also makes sense to me. I don't need to mention men's pastimes or women's pastimes.

(Sadly, Daagh Sir isn't with us any more.)
You know 'women' is important in this context because all the other answer choices mention women. They tell us that cut-paper design was a popular pastime of Colonial women.

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Ok, nice point. I feel I have seen many questions that lack contexts.
Thank you for your response.
And, did not know that about daagh sir.
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