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Confused by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations overlying one another,  Schliemann's excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt .

(A) Schliemann's excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt
(B) Schliemann's excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, temporarily halted
(C) Schliemann temporarily halted his excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy
(D) excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann
(E) excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, and of the ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann

b14kumar · Answer

Who is confused??
It's Schliemann. So second clause should be started with   Schliemann   to correctly modify the first clause.

  Confused   by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations overlying one another,  Schliemann   temporarily halted his excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy.

So C.

Regards,
Brajesh

gmatmba · Answer

This one is perhaps one of the most common in GMAT...

Who is confused??

C

ong · Answer

Who is confused?? I think both of Schliemann and I confuse in this questiong ? :lol:

Thanks you for your participation, Could someone explain me more??? I know this question might be easily to you, but it hard to me to comphehend it. Let me split like this. I works a lot of gmat question, and notices that If you find structure like these, you can easily eliminate choice which is not THE PERSON. 1. Ving...., Someone+V ------>it means that someone doing such action for instance Installing special electric pumps, farmers could use the warmth from cowsâ€™ milk to heat their houses It is clearly that farmer installs thier electric pumps. Subject must be person to do such action. 2. V.ed......, Someone/something + V------> Since subject could be someone or something, in case of something,subject might be done by someone possibly. If you are the third person who reads the data of Schliemannâ€™s excavations, you might concede that Schliemannâ€™s excavations could be confued with the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations, therefore Schliemannâ€™s excavations should be halted to clarify the accuracy of data possibly If I think like this, subject can be something which is not THE PERSON, thus choice A and B could be right, isn't it ?

selene · Answer

Ong, 
Inanimate beings can't be confused, so in this case we cannot think that the second sentence will start with "excavations".

I suggest you to get the meaning of the sentences. Don't memorize such forms like "V.ed......, Someone/something + V". They may confuse you..

ong · Answer

OA is C
selene--thanks a lot for your explanation. It's really help me get it.

ywilfred · Answer

A,B,D,E --> out. Schliemann's excavations cannot be confused.

C is the best choice

kapslock · Answer

Wilfred, once again, I think its the passive voice that's the problem. Because the sentences don't mention that excavations were confused. The general format of the sentenses was:

Confused by something, Excavations were halted (by Schliemann).

The correct sentence is:

Confused by something Schliemann halted the excavations.

Can you help explain?

Thanks.

ywilfred · Answer

The start of the sentence uses 'confused by...' so we need to follow that up with a noun. A,B,D and E all uses 'excavtions' as the noun that is being modified by the action 'confused'. This is not logical.

C makes the most sense out of the 5 choices.

ishajindal · Answer

Confused by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations overlying one another, (underline start) Schliemann’s exca vations of the fabled city Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt (underline end).

(A) Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city Ilium, ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt
(B) Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city Ilium , the ancient Troy,temporarilyhaltedtemporarily halted temporarily haltedtemporarily halted temporarily halted
(C) Schliemann temporarily halted his excavations of the fabled city Ilium, the ancient Troy
(D) excavations of the fabled city Ilium, ancient Troy, were temporarily (D) excavations of the fabled city Ilium, ancient Troy, were temporarily by Schliemann
(E) excavations of the fabled city Ilium, and ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann.

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ishajindal · Answer

Confused by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations overlying one another,  Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt .

(A) Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city Ilium, ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt 
(B) Schliemann’s excavations of the fabled city Ilium , the ancient Troy, temporarily halted
(C) Schliemann temporarily halted his excavations of the fabled city Ilium, the ancient Troy
(D) excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann 
(E) excavations of the fabled city Ilium, and ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann.

Divyadisha · Answer

'Confused by the many strata and substrata of ancient civilizations overlying one another,' must modify 'Schliemann'

Only choice C uses this modification correctly.

Senthil7 · Answer

While it is true that "confused" cannot modify anything else logically other than that man named in the sentence, can you please check the way you have pasted the answers? C appears incomplete D is malaligned! When you post questions please do keep them formatted in the best way possible as we do not understand what exactly omission of certain necessary modifiers / phrases mean!

Abhishek009 · Answer

Needful done , post edited...

As Disha has pointed out correctly, the subject must come right after the Comma so none other than (C) is correct....

Only (C) correctly states that Schliemann was Confused & .........

HKD1710 · Answer

confused by X and Y, someone. -- correct. 
excavations cannot be confused.
 
(A) Schliemann's  excavations  of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily called to a halt
(B) Schliemann's  excavations  of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, temporarily halted
 (C) Schliemann temporarily halted his excavations of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy 
(D)  excavations  of the fabled city of Ilium, the ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann
(E)  excavations  of the fabled city of Ilium, and of the ancient Troy, were temporarily halted by Schliemann

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