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A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competitor driven by a will to succeed and inspiring to fans and opponents alike, as the best pitcher in professional baseball today.

A. inspiring
B. inspired
C. inspires
D. is inspiring
E. he inspired
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Originally posted by rphardu on 07 Aug 2011, 12:57.
Last edited by Bunuel on 19 Dec 2019, 23:41, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competit [#permalink] New post   08 Aug 2011, 03:48
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This is just a test of // ism of participles in a two-part appositive modifier involving driven and inspiring; Driven is a past participle and inspiring is a present participle. I do not think any thing is being compared with any thing here

B. inspired to fans – inspire x is the right idiom in the active voice, inspired to x is unidiomatic
C – Same as in B: in addition inspire and driven are un//.
D. un//
E. he inspired and driven –un//.

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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competit [#permalink] New post   07 Aug 2011, 13:26
+1 A

C, D, and E create clauses, which wouldn't be connected in a correct way. So out.
B doesn't have a right meaning.
In A, we have two adjectives parallel.
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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competit [#permalink] New post   07 Aug 2011, 19:14
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"and" is being used as a comparator. The first thing to check immediately is that the entities that are being compared are parallel( apples with apples; oranges with oranges). A compares noun phrases (will to suceed) with another noun phrase (inspiring to his).

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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competit [#permalink] New post   08 Aug 2011, 04:08
Scott Smith, a fierce competitor ...
Scott Smith, inspiring to fans ..

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Re: A group of sportswriters recently named Scott Smith, a fierce competit [#permalink] New post   26 May 2016, 11:40
Nice explanation by Daagh. In a sentence, adjective can be parallel to present participle. Eventually present participle modifies the noun and acts as adjective too.

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