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This sentence correction problem uses an unusual modifier structure to “hide the correct answer” - a common tool used by testmakers that you learned about in the Advanced Verbal lesson. In (A) this is the modifier, “one clapboard at a time” – a rhetorical device used to emphasize how the new immigrants are leading the urban renewal. While you have surely seen such a structure in your reading, it is not common and as a result many students will eliminate it offhand. However (A) is correct and all the other answer choices contain fatal flaws. In (B) and (C) the “with one clapboard house at a time” is illogical and nonsensical. There is nothing in the sentence that is done “with one house at a time” The urban renewal is being led by immigrants “one house at a time” not “with one house at a time”. This is a good example of when you need to use logic and meaning to determine whether a decision point is correct. In (D), the past perfect tense “had been” is clearly wrong as the first part of the sentence states that it is going on right now and there is no point in the past for the past perfect to refer to. In (E), the correct present perfect is used but the sentence illogically suggests that the renewal was led by “one clapboard house at a time”. Only (A) has a grammatically correct structure that conveys a logical meaning. Answer is (A).
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Meaning - In Detroit, Immigrants renovate the houses. renovation of clapboard houses occurs one at a time.
A. Noun phrase modifier - one clapboard house at a time seems to modify the action of renewal.
B. Prepositional phrase modifier - with one clapboard house at a time illogically seems to modify immigrants
Now sentence says immigrants with one clapboard house at a time instead renovation of clapboard houses occurs one at a time.
C. Tense error - renovation of clapboard houses has been ledrr by new immigrants.
Now sentence says the act of renovation completed but effect is present. This not case renovation may continue in the future
This sentence also has Prepositional phrase modifier - with one clapboard house at a time illogically seems to modify immigrants
D. Tense error - renovation of clapboard houses had been led by new immigrants.
Now sentence says the act of renovation completed before another events, but we don't have any two related events in the past for sequencing.
E. Tense error as in C + Parallelism error
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All across Detroit, whitewashed fences, new roofs, and freshly painted porches are signs of a brisk urban renewal led by new immigrants, one clapboard house at a time.
A. renewal led by new immigrants, one clapboard house at a time
B. renewal led by new immigrants, with one clapboard house at a time
C. renewal that has been led by new immigrants, with one clapboard house at a time
D. renewal, which had been led by new immigrants, one clapboard house at a time
E. renewal, which has been led by new immigrants and one clapboard house at a time
Option A is correct
B has unnecessary pronoun with
C again repeats the same mistake .
D used past perfect tense when we have present tense in the main clause.
E make the two clauses parallel which is wrong .One clapboard at a time should modify the previous clause.
A. renewal led by new immigrants, one clapboard house at a time
B. renewal led by new immigrants, with one clapboard house at a time
C. renewal that has been led by new immigrants, with one clapboard house at a time
D. renewal, which had been led by new immigrants, one clapboard house at a time
E. renewal, which has been led by new immigrants and one clapboard house at a time
Option A is correct
B has unnecessary pronoun with
C again repeats the same mistake .
D used past perfect tense when we have present tense in the main clause.
E make the two clauses parallel which is wrong .One clapboard at a time should modify the previous clause.
