applebear wrote:
Hello,
I went through the entire discussion yet failed to understand why A is not incorrect for modifying the sentence wrongly? Shouldn't the modifier be followed by a noun i.e. The Wall Street Journal in this case as in C?
Please help me out. Would be grateful.
Which part of modifiers are you trying to apply here?
Although I can't say how the GMAT will react to a sentence like this, it sounds fine to me. The structure we are looking at is just an inversion of the subject and verb. The author of the sentence is most likely using it to provide additional stress to the word
never. And although I haven't seen this with a
for at the beginning of a sentence, I don't think it's wrong.
For all its financial troubles, never has the Wall Street Journal been read by more people.is the same as
For all its financial troubles, the Wall Street Journal has never been read by more people.As long as the sentence doesn't use as a subject something that the
it in
for all its can refer to, we should be fine.
For all its military might, analysts still worry about India. This seems fine.
For all its military might, the economy is something that analysts worry about. This one is problematic, because this sentence seems to imply that the
economy has
military might.
You'll have to look at what you are trying to apply here. For example, would you think that the following sentence is incorrect?
Although it was a major hit, we did not enjoy the new superhero movie. _________________
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