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28 Mar 2021, 00:00
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Digitized documents have levelled the playing field in humanities scholarship by removing the need for expensive and time-consuming travel for location of works and meet with other scholars.
A) by removing the need for expensive and time-consuming travel for location of works and meet
B) through the removal of the need for research that requires expensive and time-consuming travel to locate works and for meeting
C) by removing the need for travel that is time-consuming and expensive to locate works and meet
D) by removing the need for expensive and time-consuming travel to locate works and meet
E) through the removal of the need for expensive and time-consuming travel, and for locating works and meeting
28 Mar 2021, 00:03
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
The travel is time-consuming and expensive.
The purpose of travel is to do two things that need to be parallel: to locate and meet or for locating and meeting.
THE OPTIONS
→ The use of location and meet is not parallel.
ELIMINATE A
Locate and meeting are not parallel.
• diction and style; rhetorical construction
→ through the removal of is not concise, not idiomatic, and not forceful.
When we want to describe the means by which something was accomplished, we almost always use
CLAUSE + COMMA + BY + GERUND (verbING)
The phrase "by removing," preceded by a comma in options A, C, and D is the standard way to explain how digitized documents have leveled the playing field.
ELIMINATE B
→ the travel is not "expensive to locate works." ("Travel that is . . .)
• more nonsense
→ The phrase expensive to locate works might belong to "for," in which case the sentence absurdly states that the need "for expensive to locate works" is being removed.
We could say works that are expensive to locate.
At worst, we could say "the need for expensive-to-locate works." Ugh.
Either way is insensible.
ELIMINATE C
→ This sentence makes locate and meet parallel.
→ I see no errors.
By the way, as I have indicated, the word to "carries over" to or "distributes" to the word meet.
The travel has two purposes: to locate works and [to] meet with other scholars.
KEEP
→ through the removal of creates the same problems as the phrase does in option B
• meaning error
The use of and distorts the meaning of the sentence by suggesting that the requirement to locate works and meet scholars is also being removed.
ELIMINATE E
The correct answer is D.
COMMENTS
Yet again, this group represents a nicely representative cross-section of the SC Butler crew.
As always, I remind other aspirants that they have a standing invitation to post and absolutely nothing to lose.
I like the fact that the each answer contains at least one slightly distinct thread of analysis: well done!
Future readers can glean lots of resonant details from this thread.
Kudos to all.
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC2)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
• Meaning and construction
The travel is time-consuming and expensive.
The purpose of travel is to do two things that need to be parallel: to locate and meet or for locating and meeting.
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
• not parallel
→ The use of location and meet is not parallel.
ELIMINATE A
Quote:
• not parallel
Locate and meeting are not parallel.
• diction and style; rhetorical construction
→ through the removal of is not concise, not idiomatic, and not forceful.
When we want to describe the means by which something was accomplished, we almost always use
CLAUSE + COMMA + BY + GERUND (verbING)
The phrase "by removing," preceded by a comma in options A, C, and D is the standard way to explain how digitized documents have leveled the playing field.
ELIMINATE B
Quote:
• nonsensical
→ the travel is not "expensive to locate works." ("Travel that is . . .)
• more nonsense
→ The phrase expensive to locate works might belong to "for," in which case the sentence absurdly states that the need "for expensive to locate works" is being removed.
We could say works that are expensive to locate.
At worst, we could say "the need for expensive-to-locate works." Ugh.
Either way is insensible.
ELIMINATE C
Quote:
• correct
→ This sentence makes locate and meet parallel.
→ I see no errors.
By the way, as I have indicated, the word to "carries over" to or "distributes" to the word meet.
The travel has two purposes: to locate works and [to] meet with other scholars.
KEEP
Quote:
• diction and style; rhetorical construction
→ through the removal of creates the same problems as the phrase does in option B
• meaning error
The use of and distorts the meaning of the sentence by suggesting that the requirement to locate works and meet scholars is also being removed.
ELIMINATE E
The correct answer is D.
COMMENTS
Yet again, this group represents a nicely representative cross-section of the SC Butler crew.
As always, I remind other aspirants that they have a standing invitation to post and absolutely nothing to lose.
I like the fact that the each answer contains at least one slightly distinct thread of analysis: well done!
Future readers can glean lots of resonant details from this thread.
Kudos to all.
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28 Mar 2021, 00:16
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A) by removing the need for expensive and time-consuming travel for location of works and meet — “for” conjunction prior to “location..” is inferior to the infinite form of the verb used in D, which denotes purpose of travel. Eliminate in favor of D.
B) through the removal of the need for research that requires expensive and time-consuming travel to locate works and for meeting — “removal of research”? This is creating an illogical meaning. Eliminate.
C) by removing the need for travel that is time-consuming and expensive to locate works and meet — “travel that is TC and E” is inferior to “TC and E travel”. We have a better option in the form of D, hence eliminate.
D) by removing the need for expensive and time-consuming travel to locate works and meet — correct. No issues here.
E) through the removal of the need for expensive and time-consuming travel, and for locating works and meeting — illogical meaning “removal of the need for X and Y”. The travel (X) is to locate works and meet (Y). The parallelism created is rendering a completely illogical meaning. Eliminate.
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B) through the removal of the need for research that requires expensive and time-consuming travel to locate works and for meeting — “removal of research”? This is creating an illogical meaning. Eliminate.
C) by removing the need for travel that is time-consuming and expensive to locate works and meet — “travel that is TC and E” is inferior to “TC and E travel”. We have a better option in the form of D, hence eliminate.
D) by removing the need for expensive and time-consuming travel to locate works and meet — correct. No issues here.
E) through the removal of the need for expensive and time-consuming travel, and for locating works and meeting — illogical meaning “removal of the need for X and Y”. The travel (X) is to locate works and meet (Y). The parallelism created is rendering a completely illogical meaning. Eliminate.
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