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Eaten in the Mediterranean countries, northern Europeans [#permalink]
 02 Oct 2004, 20:50
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Eaten in the Mediterranean countries, northern Europeans viewed the tomato with suspicion, for they assumed it had poisonous properties because of its relationship to deadly nightshade.
(A) northern Europeans viewed the tomato with suspicion, for they
(B) northern Europeans were suspicious of the tomato, and they
(C) the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, who
(D) the tomato was suspicious to northern Europeans, and it was
(E) the tomato was viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans, it being
I prefer (C) or (D), and you?
thank you
Last edited by chunjuwu on 02 Oct 2004, 20:59, edited 1 time in total.
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C it is
A and B have misplaced modifier problem
In D and E, "it" does not properly associate action of "assuming" to the Europeans
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Clearly C.
Eaten in (what is Eaten), Tomato is the right construction that addresses modifier issue.
We have C, D E now. D sounds as though tomato is suspicious - not right. So D is out.
E has 'it' - what does it refer to - Europeans or tomato? Wrong.
C is clean. No pronoun issues or modifier issues.[/i]
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C.
In A, Mediterranean countries are eating northern Europeans. 
In D, tomato is suspicious. 
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C ..trying to twist the meaning is a good approach. 
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D when it was assumed used passive voice. Whenever, there is active voice and passive voice, active voice will always preferred than passive voice.
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D is wrong because it changes the meaning of the original sentence. It says that the tomato was viewed with suspicion and it was assumed. The "and" here is an distorter.
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