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Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
A) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
B) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, who were often his closest friends and relatives.
C) Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to vividly but
disturbingly portrayed.
D) In Egon Schiele's portraits, the subjects, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed.
E) Vividly but disturbingly, the subjects portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits tended to be his closest friends and relatives.
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03 Aug 2011, 04:23
+1 D B is tempting, but "who..." should be next to "subjects". That would make better that choice.
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
03 Aug 2011, 07:11
D is no doubt correct. However, why? Because of one simple reason of using proper word order. The appositive ‘often his closest friends and relatives,’ has to be touching the noun it modifies, namely ‘the subjects’ in this case for forming a proper syntax. In all the choices except D, you will notice the appositive is far removed from its noun and hence they are all wrong. In D, both are next to next.
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As far as I understand appositives, they need not be touching the noun they modify, unless they are very away from the noun as in choice A. But in choice C, appositive is not very far from subject, just one prepositional phrase in between which is needed for meaning. I don't understand why this choice is wrong. I somehow didn't like so many commas in D. What is OA?
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
03 Aug 2011, 23:36
+1 for D.
My understanding is that Noun Modifiers modify the noun closest to them.
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
04 Aug 2011, 03:03
How is D superior to C? Can someone please explain?
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
27 Aug 2011, 06:37
rohitgoel15 wrote: How is D superior to C? Can someone please explain? without going too far......in this sentence the subject is SUBJECTS not portraits........so the verb TEND must be refer to the first one Kudos if you want :D
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
27 Aug 2011, 08:14
Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
A. Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives Portraits can not his often closest friends & relatives- Not Ok, Rejected
B. Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, who were often his closest friends and relatives Who refer to again portraits-Rejected
C. Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits, Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed Redundant Egon Schiele repetition-Rejected
D. In Egon Schiele's portraits, the subjects, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed- Nearest correct answer is this but I have his not having indecent noun to refer
E. Vividly but disturbingly, the subjects portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits tended to be his closest friends and relatives - Redundant-
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
27 Aug 2011, 08:38
mrinal2100 wrote: is A a run on sentence You can call it a fragment, or a modifier which doesn't make sense: A) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.The red part tried to describe/modify the noun "portraits"; portraits by themselves can't be friends, the subjects of the portrait can.
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
27 Aug 2011, 13:22
bschool83 wrote: Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
A) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
B) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, who were often his closest friends and relatives.
C) Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to vividly but
disturbingly portrayed.
D) In Egon Schiele's portraits, the subjects, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed.
E) Vividly but disturbingly, the subjects portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits tended to be his closest friends and relatives. Its a question of clarity. What "often his closest friends and relatives" is trying to modify? "Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits", "Egon Schiele's portraits", or "the subjects"? Lets get it. A) Here "often his closest friends and relatives" modifies the whole clause. Wrong.... B) "who" for portraits? Wrong.... C) "often his closest friends and relatives" is modifying the whole phrase "Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits. Wrong.. D) "often his closest friends and relatives" is modifying "the subjects". Correct. E) Wrong modifying phrase - "Vividly but disturbingly" for noun "the subjects". "the portraits" do not tend to be his closest friends and relatives. So it is D. Note: A is not a run-on sentence, which is a combination of two independent clauses. A is missing two independent clauses.
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
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bschool83 wrote: Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
A) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives.
B) Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits, who were often his closest friends and relatives.
C) Subjects of Egon Schiele's portraits, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to vividly but
disturbingly portrayed.
D) In Egon Schiele's portraits, the subjects, often his closest friends and relatives, tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed.
E) Vividly but disturbingly, the subjects portrayed in Egon Schiele's portraits tended to be his closest friends and relatives. fragment: "tend to vividly but dirtubingly..." in option C is missing "be" after "tend to",this is the only error is see in C,however i dont think you will find these kind of errors in gmat questions is this the question poster's mistake?
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
30 Aug 2011, 14:08
OA IS D
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Re: SC - 700 level - portraits [#permalink]
30 Aug 2011, 15:03
of course 
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Re: Subjects tend to be vividly but disturbingly portrayed in [#permalink]
07 Nov 2011, 13:21
I went with d as well but i dont understand how "his" can be referred to Schiele since the sentence states Schiele's portraits.
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