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Re: The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the [#permalink] New post 03 Dec 2011, 20:05
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The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

(A) a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a ,since should refer to a time frame, it should be like Since robert boyle's time
(B) a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a
(C) a critique of all chemistry after Robert Boyle and envisioning as well
(D) critiquing all chemistry from Robert Boyle forward and also a vision of
(E) critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as his own envisioning of

I went for E considering this flaw in option A as considering and envisioning(gerund) seems parallel and probably the best one
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Re: The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the [#permalink] New post 08 Mar 2012, 20:48
I have chosen A for this question:

A. This answer choice solves the parallelism issues - a critique and a vision are good. They have removed the word "his" so that this sentence is less ambiguous.

B. Parallelism issues are present here - a critique and envisioning are not parallel. Also, "his" is ambiguous because we are not sure whether it refers to Humphry Davy or Robert Boyle.

C. Parallelism issue again - a critique and envisioning.

D. Parallelism issue here - critiquing and a vision. Also, the use of "critiquing" to start the clause is very confusing because this modifier seems to modify the preceding clause, but this does not make any sense.

E. The verb-ing "critiquing" can either describe or present a result of the preceding clause. It definitely does neither, so the use of this modifier is incorrect. Also, "his" is ambiguous.
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Re: The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the [#permalink] New post 03 Dec 2012, 17:53
The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

(A) a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a. Correct. Since Robert Boyle means 'since time of Robert Boyle'. Its correct modifier of "Essay on Heat and Light"
(B) a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a his envisioning of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found' is awkward usage. 'Vision' is more correct usage.
(C) a critique of all chemistry after Robert Boyle and envisioning as well 'and envisioning as well new chemistry that Davy hoped to found' becomes wrong English usage.
(D) critiquing all chemistry from Robert Boyle forward and also a vision of It modifies the whole sentence rather than just a book.
(E) critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as his own envisioning of It modifies the whole sentence rather than just a book.

Main sentence in the question is 'Humphry Davy presented the results' and rest of the things are modifiers and clauses.
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Re: The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the [#permalink] New post 19 Apr 2013, 15:42
The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his "Essay on Heat and Light", a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.

(A) a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a
Correct parallelism. Other answers have parallelism problem.

(B) a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a
(C) a critique of all chemistry after Robert Boyle and envisioning as well
(D) critiquing all chemistry from Robert Boyle forward and also a vision of
(E) critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as his own envisioning of
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