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The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut. C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take a short cut. E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut.
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The football team, t ired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. -----and wanted to reach home is not participial modifier in this context. It is an IC and hence the modifier //ism is distorted. B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut. ---= modifier now is ok with the present participle replacing the past tense verb --- correct choice. C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. ---- Ed modifier and sub-clause distort the modifier //ism. D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take a short cut. ---- will take is a wrong tense logically for an event that gives the inkling of a past event. But it is arguable that being tired is a present phenomenon and the taking the short cut in the future is plausible. But the use of the verb will take looks a bit on the extreme E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly took a short cut.--- T he absence of the comma after quickly, iis wrong //ism ;
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souvik101990 wrote: IMO B tired and wanting are parallel and logical. tired is a past participle and wanting is a present participle and they are perfectly parallel in terms of meaning. Here is a OG question which uses and elaborates the idea! sc-scientists-75261.htmlYou are right thisis the perfect example of how a change in the tense is used to make proper sense.
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souvik101990 wrote: IMO B tired and wanting are parallel and logical. tired is a past participle and wanting is a present participle and they are perfectly parallel in terms of meaning. Here is a OG question which uses and elaborates the idea! sc-scientists-75261.htmlHi Souvik, Could you please elaborate what is wrong with E. Why is E not a correct choice isn't tiring and wanting parallel.
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davidfrank wrote: Hi Souvik,
Could you please elaborate what is wrong with E. Why is E not a correct choice isn't tiring and wanting parallel. Let me chip in ...  It cannot be tiring but a simple past tense, because the football team cannot be "tiring" after four hours of practice ... instead the team is "tired" after four hours of practice ... makes sense??
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ankurgupta03 wrote: davidfrank wrote: Hi Souvik,
Could you please elaborate what is wrong with E. Why is E not a correct choice isn't tiring and wanting parallel. Let me chip in ... It cannot be tiring but a simple past tense, because the football team cannot be "tiring" after four hours of practice ... instead the team is "tired" after four hours of practice ... makes sense?? Help me understand this.....if it can't be tiring then how come the second part is acceptable as "wanting to go home"
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davidfrank wrote: ankurgupta03 wrote: davidfrank wrote: Hi Souvik,
Could you please elaborate what is wrong with E. Why is E not a correct choice isn't tiring and wanting parallel. Let me chip in ... It cannot be tiring but a simple past tense, because the football team cannot be "tiring" after four hours of practice ... instead the team is "tired" after four hours of practice ... makes sense?? Help me understand this.....if it can't be tiring then how come the second part is acceptable as "wanting to go home" Wanting to go home is correct, because, the team will go home after it is four hours of practice and after it is tired ... Now is it clear?
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Could somebody tell me why is D not acceptable
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Re: The football team, tired after four hours [#permalink]
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Help me understand this.....if it can't be tiring then how come the second part is acceptable as "wanting to go home"[/quote]
Wanting to go home is correct, because, the team will go home after it is four hours of practice and after it is tired ...
Now is it clear?[/quote]
I am not fully convinced with the answer. Thanks for your help though
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IvyLeague56 wrote: SC, the mighty Achilles heel
Could somebody tell me why is D not acceptable Please look at the part of the sentence after comma. The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, will take a short cut. The events are in past tense and hence you can't have a future tense here.
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daagh wrote: The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.
A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut. -----and wanted to reach home is not participial modifier in this context. It is an IC and hence the modifier //ism is distorted.
B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a short cut. ---= modifier now is ok with the present participle replacing the past tense verb --- correct choice.
C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.
---- Ed modifier and sub-clause distort the modifier //ism.
D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take a short cut. ---- will take is a wrong tense logically for an event that gives the inkling of a past event. But it is arguable that being tired is a present phenomenon and the taking the short cut in the future is plausible. But the use of the verb will take looks a bit on the extreme
E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly took a short cut.--- The absence of the comma after quickly, iis wrong //ism ; it will be B...although I can see that I am the last to state that...
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davidfrank: Please read D again; You have wrongly transcribed it. it is not – “and wanted to reach home quickly” as you have stated. The correct version in D is - and wanting to reach home quickly” – ‘tired after’ is a past participle, with no sense of tense. “Wanting to reach home” a present participle, again without any sense of tense. Wanting to reach home and wanted to reach home are totally different. Don’t you think d has some hold to consider? But still to say so definitely that the tired team will be wanting to go home quickly and will take a short cut,( as if the author decides for the team) looks a bit fancying than real. This is my feeling.
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daagh wrote: davidfrank: Please read D again; You have wrongly transcribed it. it is not – “and wanted to reach home quickly” as you have stated. The correct version in D is - and wanting to reach home quickly” – ‘tired after’ is a past participle, with no sense of tense. “Wanting to reach home” a present participle, again without any sense of tense. Wanting to reach home and wanted to reach home are totally different. Don’t you think d has some hold to consider?
But still to say so definitely that the tired team will be wanting to go home quickly and will take a short cut,( as if the author decides for the team) looks a bit fancying than real. This is my feeling. @Daagh-I really made a mess of the modifiers...apologise....but the outcome "tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take a short cut." Please excuse for the typo error but I did point out the error that you can't use future tense for the past event.
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david, I fully agree with you; It looks like saying, I ate tomorrow.
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davidfrank wrote: the outcome "tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take a short cut." Please excuse for the typo error but I did point out the error that you can't use future tense for the past event. It depends on the context actually. For example following would be correct: Hurt after loosing the last elections but raring to try again, the candidate with seek a re-election.
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