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Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans and she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne.(A) she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne (B) persuaded Charles VII of France in claiming his throne (C) persuading that the throne be claimed by Charles VII of France (D) persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne (E) persuading that Charles VII of France should claim the throne
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betterscore wrote: Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans and she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne.
(A) she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne
(B) persuaded Charles VII of France in claiming his throne
(C) persuading that the throne be claimed by Charles VII of France
(D) persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne
(E) persuading that Charles VII of France should claim the throne In this sentence, the verb "persuade" is the same kind of items to be paralleled with "turned", not the same kind of item with "liberating", the verb used to modifies the action of "turned the tide of English victories in her country". Moreover, the idiom: persuade sb to do sth is correct in choice D, makes it to be the best answer.
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16 Jul 2012, 00:40
An important thumb rule to follow while handling compound sentences is the omission of the subject in the second IC, if the subject of first IC can fit in as well as the subject. Here the subject of both the ICs is Joan and hence you can drop the pronoun – she - in the second IC. The whole sentence will still be //. Secondly, the right idiom is to claim. Both these combinations, you find in choice D only
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first stepJoan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans and she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne. the sentence construction is as follows :- Joan of Arc,------, turned-------- and she persuaded-----. the sentence construction should be :- Joan of Arc,------, turned-------- and persuaded-----. so strike off A,C & E. so idiomatically D is the answer.
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16 Jul 2012, 10:25
Why not (B) ? Claimed....turned....persuaded --> perfect by liberating...in claiming ? why not this construction? Help !
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16 Jul 2012, 19:22
Classic parralelism displayed here.
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Re: Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be [#permalink]
16 Jul 2012, 19:24
Claimed is part of the relative clause modifying Joan of Arc.
while "turned" and "persuaded" are part of the parallel independent clauses, sharing common subject "Joan of Arc".
We cannot have by liberating...in claiming
The meaning of the sentence is
Joan of Arc did two actions
1) turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans
and
2)persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne
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betterscore wrote: Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely inspired, turned the tide of English victories in her country by liberating the city of Orleans and she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne.
(A) she persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne
(B) persuaded Charles VII of France in claiming his throne
(C) persuading that the throne be claimed by Charles VII of France
(D) persuaded Charles VII of France to claim his throne
(E) persuading that Charles VII of France should claim the throne The underlined portion and the answer choices show us that there are two problems Problem 1: Parallelism error (the very obvious one) Joan of Arc, [long modifier that can be ignored (since it is not underlined)], turned [....] and she persuaded [...]. Rule of parallelism: grammatically equivalent elements should match. So, instead of "she persuaded" we need "persuaded". That leaves us with answer choice (B) and (D). Problem 2: Idiom error Compare "in claiming" vs "to claim"; latter is the correct idiom. That leaves us with answer choice (D).
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This question is on the lecture of e-gmat. A is wrong because COMMA+FANSBOY is needed to connect 2 independent clauses. We need COMMA+AND, not AND.
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thevenus wrote: Why not (B) ?
Claimed....turned....persuaded --> perfect
by liberating...in claiming ? why not this construction?
Help ! To claim is the right usage. Hence we go for D
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Re: Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be [#permalink]
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Can someone explain when liberating and persuading are not parallel?
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Re: Joan of Arc, a young Frenchwoman who claimed to be divinely [#permalink]
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Liberating Orleans was part of the act of turning the tide of English victories. Persuading was a totally different act; you can parallellize liberating and persuading only when they are part of a list. In fact correct list is indeed turned and persuaded. That is the reason that they are required to be // rather than liberating and persuading
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