Artists create paintings, often in the form of portraits, with the int

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Artists create paintings, often in the form of portraits,  with the intention  to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors.

(A) with the intention
(B) the intention of which is
(C) intended
(D) and intending
(E) so intended as

debjit1990 · Answer

Ans: c
a)with the intention to-- wrong idiom... intention of--correct
b)wordy
c)correct
d)and intending-- no verb--fragment
e)so intended as- unidiomatic

PTD1995 · Answer

Option C

The word "with" does not fit in this type of sentence structure
 The sentence is awkward and there's no necessity to insert the "which".
  Correct!  It clearly and precisely communicates the intended meaning of the sentence.
 Incorrect.After the "and" there's not a full clause
 "So ... as to" means the same as "as a result of". This changes the meaning of the sentence!

Option A - INCORRECT speculative as usual. It seeks to say the intent of the statement but not logically as the writer would have preferred it to be written and expressed. It is thus a wrong option.

LIBERTYRodP · Answer

Answer  A , as it is an adverb correctly modifying the verb " create ".

Archit3110 · Answer

IMO E ; 
so intended as
IDIOM type so X... as

Artists create paintings, often in the form of portraits,  with the intention  to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors.

(A) with the intention
(B) the intention of which is
(C) intended
(D) and intending
(E) so intended as

joohwangie · Answer

Artists create paintings, often in the form of portraits, with the intention to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors.

(A) with the intention - 'with the intention of helping' seems better
(B) the intention of which is- will make sentence run-on
(C) intended - correct
(D) and intending- not parallel 'create' and 'intending'
(E) so  intended as

Therefore, C

eakabuah · Answer

The right answer is C.

In A, with the intention to modifies paintings. Since buildings cannot have intention, A created an illogical meaning. We can eliminate A based on this.
The intention of which is in B is unnecessarily wordy. We can eliminate B based on wordiness.
and intending in D suggests that intending has to be parallel to something in the sentence and there is no element that can be made parallel to intending.
so intended as is awkward and wordy compared to C, which is more concise. In C, paintings intended to implies that whoever creates the paintings has the intention and not the paintings themselves. So C is correct.

Artists create paintings, often in the form of portraits, with the intention to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors.

(A) with the intention
(B) the intention of which is
(C) intended
(D) and intending
(E) so intended as

chaitralirr · Answer

IMO c

The -ed modifier is modifying the previous clause "often in the form of portraits"

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ravigupta2912 · Answer

Is there a better reason for elimination of C other than "wordiness"? I went with C but I can't find any grammatical errors in B.

thereisaFire · Answer

Hi  egmat   GMATNinja   AjiteshArun   VeritasKarishma

As per choice C the correct sentence should be "intended to help ..........artisitic endeavors.". 
I feel that this phrase " intended to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors " is a modifier, but I could not figure out what exactly is it modifying.

Since it is a verb-ed modifier, who is the doer of the modifier and the modifying entity?

If we remove the comma-pair, the sentence structure looks like:

Artists create paintings,  often in the form of portraits , intended to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors.
Artists create paintings intended to help the painter make a living while pursuing other artistic endeavors.

The main clause is  Artists create paintings . These artists do so with some intent. However, as per the aforementioned sentence, it seems as if paintings are intended to do something, making it illogical.

Please provide a complete analysis of this question and help me in understanding this question by pointing where I am stumbling.

SALAKSHYA · Answer

HI,  The word "with" does not fit in this type of sentence structure  is very broad, can you be more specific, when with doesn't fit.

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi  thereisaFire ,

We can't expect past participles to always follow that pattern. They can, but it's not as if they must. Take a look at  this question :

1.  Along with  the  drop  in producer prices   announced  yesterday...  ← Here  announced  is an adjective (for the noun phrase  the drop in producer prices ). It describes a noun, and nothing else.

Also, you may want to take a look at  this official question .

saugata64 · Answer

As per option C, intended should modify the preceding Noun i.e. Portraits. Are the Portraits intended to help the painter make a living?
Or the Artists create paintings - Intention of the Artists is to help painter make a living?

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