Prashant10692 wrote:
Hello Mike,
Could you please explain it a bit more why B is wrong ans A is correct?
Thanks in advance.
Dear
Prashant10692I see that
HKD1710 already chimed in, but I will add a few additional thoughts. I'm happy to respond.
First of all, I would call the verb tense in (B) "fishy"--it's not black-and-white incorrect, but it's suspect. That's problem #1.
I would disagree with part of what HKD1710 said about "
extraordinary negotiation intuition." First of all, in some context, it's appropriate to have [noun #1][noun #2], and it's understood that the first noun plays the role of a modifier.
"
a fire truck" "
he's a baseball guy"
"
a tree specialist"
This structure is very common in casual English conversation, but it's not always inappropriate in a formal academic content. Usually, though, the first noun, the noun in the role of modifier, is a short noun, a common noun. It sounds inherently awkward to have a long four-syllable formal-sounding noun in this role. Tacking on a long adjective in front of it makes it even worse: "
extraordinary negotiation intuition." That's very awkward sounding: that's problem #2.
Then, in my mind, the crowning-jewel problem: it sounds sloppy and awkward to have a series of possessives:
[noun #1's](noun #2's][noun #3] = very awkward
This is precisely what we have in the structure: "
the Boustrophedon’s CEO’s quantitative skills." Yuck! Very awkward! That's problem #3, perhaps the biggest problem.
With all three of those, it's very clear that (B) cannot be the answer.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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