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04 Jan 2020, 06:53
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Authors of the seventeenth century used alliteration to both refine their writing and increase a listener’s pleasure.
(A) Authors of the seventeenth century used alliteration to both refine their writing and increase
(B) Authors of the seventeenth century utilized alliteration both to refine their writing and to increase
(C) Seventeenth-century authors utilized alliteration both to refine their writing and to increase
(D) Seventeenth-century authors used alliteration both to refine their writing and to increase
(E) Seventeenth-century authors used alliteration to refine their writing, and also to increase
(A) Authors of the seventeenth century used alliteration to both refine their writing and increase
(B) Authors of the seventeenth century utilized alliteration both to refine their writing and to increase
(C) Seventeenth-century authors utilized alliteration both to refine their writing and to increase
(D) Seventeenth-century authors used alliteration both to refine their writing and to increase
(E) Seventeenth-century authors used alliteration to refine their writing, and also to increase
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06 Jan 2020, 09:38
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Option D
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This is a very appealing answer, as there is not any major error. However, thinking very literally
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is illogical. How can someone be the author of a century? Nonsensical
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Utilized is not the best verb for this purpose
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Same as B)
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Correct
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As I said before, no major error here. However, "and also" can be considered redundant
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