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24 May 2021, 23:48
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Hello,
Would the following be correct? or is it still incorrect because comma+ ing modifier always needs a clause before it to modify the same?
Eg- Beatrix Potter, carefully coordinating illustrations with her narratives, capitalized....
Also, Is the following correct since now without comma coordinating can modify immediate preceding noun?
Eg- Beatrix Potter carefully coordinating illustrations with her narratives, capitalized..
25 May 2021, 05:10
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SDW2
This seems fine to me SDW2.
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Yeah...this will be a problem. Notice that by removing the comma, you have basically made an essential modifier. For example:
People misusing their Government facilities, will be punished.
- This means that out of all the people, those people who are misusing their Government facilities, will be punished.
Similarly, when we say:
Beatrix Potter carefully coordinating illustrations with her narratives....
- This could mean that out all of all the Beatrix Potters, the sentence is talking about the Beatrix Potter who carefully coordinated illustrations with her narratives. Clearly not the intended meaning.
04 Jun 2021, 08:23
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huntgmat
In (A), is it valid to take the antecedent of "them" as "book illustration", since its just a modifier and not a part of the structure of the sentence?
In (B), can the "carefully coordinating them with her narratives" be a double modifier of "Beatrix Potter" despite it has "ing" verb which generally modifies the subject of the previous clause, but sometimes as the opening modifier?
In (E) what's wrong?
AndrewN
04 Jun 2021, 13:57
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lakshya14
Hello, lakshya14. I will get straight to your questions. In (A), yes, them must refer to book illustrations, since no other reasonable plural noun appears in the sentence (not even the potential compound subject in her keen observation and love of the natural world). Thus, you can interpret (A) as,
Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinating her book illustrations with her narratives...
That is most unsatisfying, I think you will agree. Why not just say that Beatrix Potter carefully coordinated her book illustrations with her narratives?
In (B), again, yes, you might want to think of carefully coordinating them with her narratives as a modifier of the noun that follows, namely the author herself, but double-stacked introductory phrases are often a telltale sign of a poorly written sentence in GMAT™ world, not to mention that the -ing modifier reaches backward and forward at the same time—we still need to refer back to her illustrations to qualify them, but we are left in suspense until we jump across the comma and reach Beatrix Potter. In short, (B) is just as much of a mess as (A).
Finally, (E) places this in her book illustrations in a tight spot. It seems to be an aside, non-essential information that is roped off by commas, but then we get carefully coordinated them after the second comma. The sentence logically reads,
Beatrix Potter, in her book illustrations, carefully coordinated her book illustrations with her narratives and...
Why would the sentence need to mention her book illustrations twice to express the vital meaning? (C) is the only answer choice that sidesteps this major stylistic flaw. By adopting an introductory phrase, relative clause, main clause structure, it presents the information in a clear and direct manner (no repetitions needed).
I hope that addresses your concerns. Thank you for thinking to ask.
- Andrew
