karankhinchi wrote:
Friends I am struggling to understand the explanation provided by OG for the below mentioned SC. Can you guys help??
Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.
A) Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted
(B) Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted both
(C) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted
(D) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rooted
(E) Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both
Would be great if you someone can provide answer and elaborate on the underlying reasons?
My answer was D only
. Lets consider the answer choice E it is wrong because:
Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted
both in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith
and (in) Duke Ellington
both in x and in y....so in is missing in second part and also it is not implicit so E is wrong. Answer choice A is wordy and also rejected on the same grounds because it should have been:
both rooted in x and sthelse in y....but the construction is faulty.
Answer choice C is also wordy and improper usage of
both as well. B has proper start but same problem with
both.
To consider choice D:
Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work
that was rooted...(that is going to give some important information about work and that information is:)
in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington
and then the sentence follows:
yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory.
Here
he properly refers to Monk. So correct choice is D.
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