All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman

All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classed with the true greats of the genre.

A) All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classed with the true greats of the genre. -- CORRECT, verb-ed modifier modifies Richard correct.

B) All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classing with the true greats of the genre. -- classing here modifies "All" and that's wrong.

C) All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, and classed with the true greats of the genre. -- If this were ICs parallelism , we would need pronoun "him" to refer to Richard. ( all agreed and classed him)

D) All who agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, and classed with the true greats of the genre. -- Sentence fragment

E) All agreeing Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classed with the true greats of the genre. -- Wrong modifier.

Answer: A

I doubt that this quest. is the standard GMAT like question because of the reason that in choice A. verb-ed modifier should have been placed close to the noun it is trying to modify.
Choice B mentions verb-ing modifier that per my sense is correctly modifying the previous clause by showing it as the result of the previous clause
Hi @daag can you pls post the solution

I doubt that this quest. is the standard GMAT like question because of the reason that in choice A. verb-ed modifier should have been placed close to the noun it is trying to modify.
Choice B mentions verb-ing modifier that per my sense is correctly modifying the previous clause by showing it as the result of the previous clause
Hi daagh can you pls post the solution

All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classed with the true greats of the genre.

A) All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classed with the true greats of the genre. ---

There is a difference between “classed with” and ‘and classed with”. In the given context ‘classed with” is a past participle while ‘and classed with’ is a V2 past tense verb whose doer is Richard. Since it would not have been so that Richard might have classed himself reflexively, the V2 past tense doesn’t sync with the meaning of the sentence. We do require a simple modifier at the end. That is why A is good.

B) All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classing with the true greats of the genre.--- B is wrong because the adverbial modifier- comma and the present participle- point to Richard as the doer of the classifying act. This is a twist of meaning. Let’s drop it.

C) All agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, and classed with the true greats of the genre.--- and classed doesn’t sync --- drop

D) All who agreed Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll and classed with the true greats of the genre. --- This is a fragment; The unnecessary intrusion of that spoils the IC structure of the first clause

E) All agreeing Richard, whose real name was Richard Penniman, was a pioneer of rock’n’roll, classed with the true greats of the genre. This is also a fragment. There is no verb for the subject all.


Hope this helps.

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