doe007 wrote:
5. An artist who explored Spanish cultural themes, Julio Gonzalez was world renowned for his art.
(A) An artist who explored Spanish cultural themes, Julio Gonzalez was world renowned for his art
(B) Julio Gonzalez is an artist whose art explores world renowned Spanish cultural themes
(C) Artist Julio Gonzalez has explored Spanish cultural themes, the art of whom is world renowned
(D) An artist who has explored Spanish cultural themes, Julio Gonzalez’ art is world renowned.
(E) Julio Gonzalez is a world-renowned artist whose art explored Spanish cultural themes
This one was really tough and honestly, I am still doubtful about my answer.
Answer should be EThe main fight was between A, B, and E as C and D have some grammatical mistakes.
C) Here the modifier
the art of whom is world renowned is away from the noun it modifies
i.e.Julio GonzalezD) This is a sentence fragment. There is no conjunction between Phrase
(An artist…..themes) and Main clause
(Julio…....renowned)
Herein after we would look for the choice that has clear meaning.
The intended meaning should be
Julio Gonzalez was world renowned and
his art explored the Spanish cultural themes (He can explore the cultural themes through his art but he himself can not explore that)Both A and B can be eliminated on the grounds on meaning issue. (IMO A also have a minor grammatical mistake)
A) Here the main clause is
An artist was world renowned for his art. Julio Gonzalez describes the name of that artist so it should be separated from the rest of the sentence with comma. This choice would have been correct if it had the following structure.
An artist who explored spanish cultural themes,Julio Gonzalez, was world renowned for his art.B) Not in accordance with intended meaning.
Spanish cultural themes were not the world renowned.
E) This choice IMO best represent the intended meaning
Thanks
doe007, for sharing these questions with community. Hope to see such awesome questions again - with the prize of kudos
Regards,
Narenn