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During the eighteenth century, widespread changes in agriculture, known as the agrarian revolution, involving the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields, of new farming
techniques and crops, and the substitution of commercial for subsistence farming. A. revolution, involving the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields, of new farming techniques and crops, and B. revolution, involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields and of new farming techniques and crops, and C. revolution, which involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields and of new farming techniques and crops, and D. revolution involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields, new farming techniques and crops, and of E. revolution that involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields and new farming techniques and crops, and of
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Although the passage looks like a jumble of endless apposite, still the revolution in essence involves two things only: 1. the large-scale introduction (of enclosed fields and of new farming techniques and crops) and 2. The substitution (of commercial blah.) The trick is to temporally ignore the prepositional phrases and converge on the arms of the list. In this symmetrical structure, the two factors i.e. The introduction and the substitution should be parallelly placed. A.C and E can be instantly dropped, because they each are fragments without working verbs. Between B and D, D missies parallelism by unnecessarily adding a preposition - of - to the second arm of the list – the substitution -, while dropping it for the first arm, - the introduction – Of course, the multiple use of the conjunction – and - is appropriately done in both the contenders. B is the choice
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This Q is testing parallelism in a very rough way.
(A) does not have main verb (should be "changes ..... involved")
(B) correct parallelism, very complicated though
(C) does not have main verb (should be "changes ..... involved")
(D) lack of comma introduces ambiguity: "revolution involved"
(E) does not have main verb (should be "changes ..... involved")
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+1 for daagh.
Nice explanation.
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12 Nov 2010, 06:03
B employs correct parallelism.
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raghavs wrote: During the eighteenth century, widespread changes in agriculture, known as the agrarian
revolution, involving the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields, of new farming
techniques and crops, and the substitution of commercial for subsistence farming.
A. revolution, involving the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields, of new
farming techniques and crops, and
B. revolution, involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields and of new
farming techniques and crops, and
C. revolution, which involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields and of
new farming techniques and crops, and
D. revolution involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields, new farming
techniques and crops, and of
E. revolution that involved the large-scale introduction of enclosed fields and new
farming techniques and crops, and of Here A states revolution, involving which makes the sentence very awkward...B is correct in saying ...the large-scale introduction of A and of B... ,and C- here basically there is hierarchy of conjunctions.... [A and B] and c... it is maintained perfectly... In C use of 'which' is redundant...In D 'introduction of enclosed fields, new farming techniques and crops, and of' distorts the meaning...In E usage of 'of' in climax changes the meaning of sentence.. it suggests that 'large-scale introduction.... of A and B, and of C' ie also l arge scale introduction of 'substitution of commercial for subsistence farming' ... which is so incorrect...Definitely B is perfect...
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every thing other than B is a fragment.
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why is use of 'which' is redundant in the option c.
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