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gmatassassin88
I'm not sure if I understand what you're asking, but I'm also not sure why the distinction matters. The author says that the monks say that they found the remains and the coffin had the inscription. That seems fine to me.
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OA : According to medieval monks, the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere were found at Glastonbury Abbey in A.D. 1191, Arthur's coffin marked with the inscription (in Latin): "Here Lies Arthur, The Once and Future King."
Q1. How does the absolute phrase at the end of the sentence modify the preceding clause?
I'm not quite clear with the logical linkage between the two
Q2. Is it necessary that "the inscription" has to be next to the colon?
Have you seen official problems in which what is supposed to be modified by a colon is NOT NEXT to the colon?
OA : According to medieval monks, the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere were found at Glastonbury Abbey in A.D. 1191, Arthur's coffin marked with the inscription (in Latin): "Here Lies Arthur, The Once and Future King."
Q1. How does the absolute phrase at the end of the sentence modify the preceding clause?
I'm not quite clear with the logical linkage between the two
Q2. Is it necessary that "the inscription" has to be next to the colon?
Have you seen official problems in which what is supposed to be modified by a colon is NOT NEXT to the colon?
19 Jul 2020, 04:52
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varotkorn
It's describing something about Arthur's remains -- something about the container (coffin) in which they were found.
varotkorn
It is not necessary for "the inscription" to appear immediately before the colon. These would also be fine, for example:
His remains were found in a coffin with an inscription that read: "Here lies Arthur..."
There was an inscription on his coffin: "Here lies Arthur..."
It just needs to be clear that the phrase after the colon is the inscription and not something else.
varotkorn
I can count using a very small number of fingers the number of official questions I can recall that even use a colon at all. There are three consequences of that: there aren't enough examples to reliably abstract any "rules" about how GMAT SC questions will use colons; the GMAT follows the rules of ordinary English anyway, so the rules of English are what matter; and learning about how to use colons is unlikely to make any difference on the test.
