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Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow. (A) Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as (B) Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as (C) Muller’s career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being (D) Muller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being (E) the career of Muller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of It is not Friedrich Muller who was spanning more than fifty years, but his career thus A,D are straight out Now we have -B,C,E B -sounds good, Hold it C- with and being sound awkward, eliminate it E- of usage is awkward, shows as the apprenticeship began because of a sanskrit scholar. thus B is the answer anyother points that I am missing?
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
02 Mar 2008, 07:54
I eliminate E because of incorrect verb usage : has begun
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
02 Mar 2008, 09:15
Clealy the modifier should be applied to Career but not to a person.
hence answer B
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
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i am lost here, can someone explain me what is 'Sanskrit scholar ' compared to?
Friedrich Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
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agdimple333 wrote: i am lost here, can someone explain me what is 'Sanskrit scholar ' compared to?
Friedrich Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar Why do you need to compare Sanskrit scholar in this case? The sentence uses AS as "in the role of".
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
21 Jul 2011, 05:07
My approuch take me less the 1 minute. Parallel structure only in B career began in ......and culminated in.... prasannar wrote: Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.
(A) Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(B) Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(C) Muller’s career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(D) Muller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(E) the career of Muller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of
It is not Friedrich Muller who was spanning more than fifty years, but his career thus A,D are straight out
Now we have -B,C,E
B -sounds good, Hold it
C- with and being sound awkward, eliminate it
E- of usage is awkward, shows as the apprenticeship began because of a sanskrit scholar.
thus B is the answer
anyother points that I am missing?
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
21 Jul 2011, 07:12
Although I agree that B is the best choice in this sentence, I read somewhere that modifier modifying the possessive would give an impression as if it were modifying noun. In this case, "Muller" rather than "Muller's career". So if there is one more choice starting with "The career of Muller began.." keeping everything else same as B. Which one is supposed to be correct the choice with possessive or the choice with "The career"?
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Re: Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his [#permalink]
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I have chosen B for this question:
A. The modifier is used incorrectly in this answer choice. Currently, "spanning more than 50 years" modifies Friedrich Muller - this is incorrect because a person cannot span more than 50 years. Rather, it was "Friedrich Muller's career" that spanned more than 50 years - this is the correct subject.
B. This answer choice is correct because it solves the modifier error. Also, the use of the simple past tense "began" correctly describes an event that occurred in the past.
C. Although the modifier error has been corrected in this answer choice, it is wordy. The words "of being" is awkward.
D. The verb tense should be simple past not past perfect. Also, "of being" shows up again in this answer choice.
E. This answer choice makes absolutely no sense. It reads "Friedrich the career of Muller..." Also, the use of present perfect tense is incorrect.
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Re: Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his [#permalink]
12 Mar 2012, 22:15
B. Subject is his career so must use possessive.
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Re: Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his [#permalink]
18 Mar 2012, 06:03
+1 for B.
The initial modifier means that we must modify career => A and D out.
E incorrectly used present perfect.
C is awkwardly worded
B wins
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Re: SC 1000- 667/1000- Clarification [#permalink]
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sgupta0827 wrote: Although I agree that B is the best choice in this sentence, I read somewhere that modifier modifying the possessive would give an impression as if it were modifying noun. In this case, "Muller" rather than "Muller's career". So if there is one more choice starting with "The career of Muller began.." keeping everything else same as B. Which one is supposed to be correct the choice with possessive or the choice with "The career"? The career of Muller began keeping everything else same as B ill be correct
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Re: Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his [#permalink]
22 Nov 2012, 20:52
in B , what is "as a scholar"?
the carreer is as scholar
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the apprenticeship is as the scholar.
pls help
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