Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brow

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION



THE PROMPT

• Meaning?
Mrs. Brown is enthusiastic about an upcoming luncheon.
She appears to have lollygagged, because now she is hastily calling committee members in order to assign tasks.

THE OPTIONS

• upcoming and approaching are redundant
→ upcoming implies the immediacy of the luncheon.
KEEP A tentatively but look for better options.


• Can we remove the word being without damaging the meaning of the sentence?
Yes? Then we do not need being

• As in (A), upcoming and approaching are redundant

• we should be reading about "a hasty manner" rather than "a hastily manner."
→ there is no such thing as a hastily manner.
Hastily is an adverb. It incorrectly modifies the noun manner.
→ correct: a hasty manner
→ wrong: a hastily manner
→ correct: Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members, or
→ also correct: Mrs. Brown phoned her committee members hastily (we're just moving the adverb around)
ELIMINATE OPTION B

• I see no errors. The option is succinct
• It is also logical: Mrs. Brown A is feeling enthusiastic.
She hastily phoned her committee members. That makes sense.
KEEP C


• Probably illogical.
→ from the other choices, it's pretty clear that Mrs. Brown is enthusiastic.
→ this option's passive verb voice choice—the committee members WERE called— makes no stylistic sense and is not a good idea even if it were to make sense
→ who is calling? what happened to Mrs. Brown? I don't like this setup.

• with regards to is not idiomatic, and I have seen GMAC test this issue.
The correct phrases are with regard to or regarding. You can also say in regard to/

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• hastily and in a rushed effort are synonyms. Hastily conveys the fact that Mrs. We do not need both.
ELIMINATE E

The answer is (C).

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These answers range from good to excellent. Nice work!

Redundencies



A - has redundant words - upcoming and approaching

B - A + 'hastily' - adverb + noun?

C - looks fine

D - phrase is modifying the wrong noun and a certain Mrs. is missing, so who called whom?

E - C is more concise.

My pick - C
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Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to assign tasks and delegate responsibilities.

A) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to // "upcoming" and "approaching" have the same meaning.

B) Being enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown phoned her committee members in a hastily manner to // "being" is wrongly used. "upcoming" and "approaching" have the same meaning.

C) Feeling enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to // correct

D) Enthusiastic with regards to the reception lunch approaching, the committee members were hastily phoned to // dangling modifier. the committee members were not enthusiastic.

E) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members in a rushed effort to // "hastily" and "rushed" have the same meaning.

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Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to assign tasks and delegate responsibilities.

A) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to - upcoming and approaching seem to have same meaning -redundancy - Incorrect

B) Being enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown phoned her committee members in a hastily manner to
- same error as A

C) Feeling enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to - Mrs. Brown is feeling enthusiastic - correct

D) Enthusiastic with regards to the reception lunch approaching, the committee members were hastily phoned to - This says that the committee members are enthusiastic - wrong

E) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members in a rushed effort to[/quote]
- hastily and rushed - seems to have same meaning - redundancy

Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to assign tasks and delegate responsibilities.

POE:
Stop sign- 'upcoming & approaching' are same; redundancy. Eliminate (A) & (B).
Eliminate (D) - modifier error.
Eliminate (E) - change of meaning

A) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to

B) Being enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown phoned her committee members in a hastily manner to

C) Feeling enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to - CORRECT

D) Enthusiastic with regards to the reception lunch approaching, the committee members were hastily phoned to

E) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members in a rushed effort to

Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to assign tasks and delegate responsibilities.

A) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to Incorrect

' approaching' is redundant,

B) Being enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch approaching, Mrs. Brown phoned her committee members in a hastily manner to Incorrect

being uses wrong
' approaching' is redundant

C) Feeling enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members to Correct

seems fine

D) Enthusiastic with regards to the reception lunch approaching, the committee members were hastily phoned to Incorrect

meaning change - 'Mrs. Brown' phoned not 'the committee members'

E) Enthusiastic about the upcoming reception lunch, Mrs. Brown hastily phoned her committee members in a rushed effort to Incorrect

meaning change
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The official explanation is here..

I understand the redundancy in Option A. However, I was wondering if "enthusiastic" is correctly used in Option A to modify Mrs Brown, or if it is placed too far away from the noun it modifies. Thank you

Hello kelly_jacques,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, here "about the upcoming reception lunch approaching" is simply an adverbial phrase that modifies the adjective "Excited", so "Excited" can still be said to directly modify "Mrs. Brown".

We hope this helps.
All the best!
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