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As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended more than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications.
(A) As the former (B) The former (C) Former (D) She was (E) As the
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Hey All,
I got asked to take this one on by PM, so here I am! Yay!
As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended more than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications.
A. As the former PROBLEM: The "as" part is correct (See answer choice E), but you can't be a former chair for 18 years. Also, she didn't do these things AS the FORMER chair. She did them AS the chair, and NOW she is the former chair.
B. The former PROBLEM: Technically, this could be called okay, because we have a really long noun modifier ("the former chair...") modifying another noun, "Joan Philkill." However, answer choice A simply makes more sense, considering the definition of "As" given above.
C. Former PROBLEM: We need the article "the" here. We use it to refer to a person or thing that is unique. Obviously we're talking about a unique chair of the board here (Joan).
D. She was PROBLEM: Now, we end up with two independent clauses separated by a comma. This isn't allowed.
E. As the ANSWER: The preposition "as" can be used to to mean "during the time of being (the thing specified)." For example, I could say "As a child, I was often sick." In this sentence, we're told that "During the time of being the former chair...Joan attended more than 400 meetings..."
Hope that helps!
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IMO (E), The logical meaning of the sentence talks about the past event. "chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years". "Former" here sounds redundant. What is OA?
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08 Sep 2008, 22:44
Unless I interpret it differently, "As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years" is not a subordinate clause. It is a modifier clause for "Joan Philkill". Hence, "As" seems irrelevant".
Hence, I will go for "B". Also, if As is relevant, then the modifier should look like "As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and as a board member for 28 years"
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I actually don't think former is redundant. Former is an adjective here.
Former means that the person is no longer an active chair member.
Without the former, (As the chair) - it gives the meaning that the person is still currently part of the board.
Where did this question come from? argh.
leonidas wrote:
IMO (E), The logical meaning of the sentence talks about the past event. "chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years". "Former" here sounds redundant. What is OA?
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bigfernhead wrote:
I actually don't think former is redundant. Former is an adjective here.
Former means that the person is no longer an active chair member.
Without the former, (As the chair) - it gives the meaning that the person is still currently part of the board.
Where did this question come from? argh.
leonidas wrote:
IMO (E), The logical meaning of the sentence talks about the past event. "chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years". "Former" here sounds redundant. What is OA?
Very diff Q.
@BFH,
Why would some one attend meetings as former chair ?
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I don't think it's saying that a former chair is currently attending meetings.
This is my interpretation: When the former is used, the meaning of the sentence is exact: - The action has taken in the past, and the member is no longer part of the board.
When the former is not used, it gives the 2 meanings, either that: 1. The action has taken in the past, and the member is no longer part of the board nor attends the meetings. OR 2. the action has taken in the past, BUT can continue into the future, and member is still part of the board.
I don't agree that the intent of the sentence was to infer #2 above, therefore, that's why I thought former was necessary and not redundant.
icandy wrote:
bigfernhead wrote:
I actually don't think former is redundant. Former is an adjective here.
Former means that the person is no longer an active chair member.
Without the former, (As the chair) - it gives the meaning that the person is still currently part of the board.
Where did this question come from? argh.
leonidas wrote:
IMO (E), The logical meaning of the sentence talks about the past event. "chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years". "Former" here sounds redundant. What is OA?
Very diff Q.
@BFH,
Why would some one attend meetings as former chair ?
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neeshpal wrote:
As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended more than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications. A. As the former B. The former C. Former D. She was E. As the
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First look: modifier, grammatical construction -- How should the former chair be modified?
A. As the former Wrong - incorrect "former" because Joan was the chair for 18 years, not the former chair for 18 years. B. The former Wrong - Opening modifier changed from clause to appositive phrase, though "former" is incorrect for the same reasoning above. C. Former Wrong - same as above. D. She was Wrong - She was..., Joan Philkill is a comma splice; one cannot join two sentences with merely a comma. E. As the Best choice
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neeshpal wrote:
As the former chair of the planning board for 18 consecutive years and a board member for 28 years, Joan Philkill attended more than 400 meetings and reviewed more than 700 rezoning applications.
A. As the former B. The former C. Former D. She was E. As the
Imo E A changes the meaning B Chair can nor be attending meeting C same as B D There is no conjunction comma splice. E correct as the chair
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