imSKR wrote:
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The growth of the railroads led to the abolition of local times, which was determined by when the sun reached the observer's meridian and differing from city to city, and to the establishment of regional times.
(D) determined by when the sun reached the observer's meridian and differed
(E) determined by when the sun reached the observer's meridian and differing
Hi
AndrewN sir
There is lot of discussion above w.r.t. parallelism between determined vs differing /differed. I am confused with these below points:
Reasons for choosing E over D:
1. determined by vs differing/differed from
differed is not parallel to determined by because determined by - passive and differed from -active?- is it?
2. differed from vs differing from - are these both modifiers? why in some posts, it is mentioned "differed" is past verb but not verb-ed modifier. is it?
3. E wins over D because of meaning issue. Differing makes sense over differed from .is it?
In which above numbers reasoning is wrong? Please suggest.
I am little confused with lot of different explanations in above posts.
Please suggest
AndrewN sir
Hello,
imSKR. It has been a long day of a long workweek for me, so I am late at getting to this. You want to know how I quickly separated (D) from (E)? I did not bother with the grammar manual. Rather, I considered that
and without a comma should join two like entities, and that those two entities should be presentable in either order. For instance, if I say,
John and Sue went to the store, I can just as easily say,
Sue and John went to the store. With this in mind, I considered just the first part of (D) and (E) in transposed fashion:
(D)
The growth of the railroads led to the abolition of local times, differed from city to city AND determined by...(E)
The growth of the railroads led to the abolition of local times, differing from city to city AND determined by...Choice (D) is clearly lacking. If we want to justify it, we fall back on adding a
which in front of
differed, but then we need a
were before
determined. By the time we find a reasonable way to qualify (D), our continuation would no longer resemble (D). Choice (E) wins by a long shot.
I hope that helps. Thank you for thinking to ask me about the question.
- Andrew