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30 Jan 2014, 08:59
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In his treatise the Poetics, the Greek philosopher Aristotle cites various advances in the development of Athenian tragedy, including a switch from narrative to dramatic poetry, the combining of dialogue with choral odes, adding two actors, and the reduction of the chorus from 50 to 12 men.
(A) the combining of dialogue with choral odes, adding two actors
(B) the combination of dialogue with choral odes, the addition of two actors
(C) the combining of dialogue with choral odes and the adding of two actors
(D) the combination of dialogue with choral odes and addition of two actors
(E) combining dialogue with choral odes, adding two actors
OE
Hi, I want to clarify what "including" is doing in the question stem, please.
(A) the combining of dialogue with choral odes, adding two actors
(B) the combination of dialogue with choral odes, the addition of two actors
(C) the combining of dialogue with choral odes and the adding of two actors
(D) the combination of dialogue with choral odes and addition of two actors
(E) combining dialogue with choral odes, adding two actors
OE
This sentence contains a list of advances in the development of Athenian tragedy—all of the elements of the list must be parallel. The list begins after the word including; all of the elements of the list are objects of including—a switch, the combining, adding, and the reduction. Since switch and reduction are not underlined, the underlined elements must match them and be changed from the combining and adding to combination and addition, as choice (B) has it. Choice (D) fails to maintain the structure of the original sentence and the other choices do not maintain the necessary parallel structure.
Hi, I want to clarify what "including" is doing in the question stem, please.
30 Jan 2014, 11:41
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Dear goodyear2013,
I'm happy to respond.
Here's a blog article about participles.
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/participle ... -the-gmat/
The word "including" is the present participle of the verb "to include." It's the nature of this verb that the subject would be a BIG Category, and the direct object would be an individual member. For example,
Songbirds include sparrows.
French authors include Stendhal.
Irrational numbers include pi.
When we change the verb "to include" to its present participle form, it modifies a BIG Category. For example,
Songbirds, including sparrows, do X.
French authors, including Stendhal, did X.
Irrational numbers, including pi, do X.
Here, the BIG Category is "various advances" --- it's a large category, because there were several advances in the development of Athenian tragedy. The participle "including" modifies this BIG Category, and what follows are example of this big category --- instances of individual advances in the development of Athenian tragedy. From the word "including" to the end of a sentence is one gigantic participle phrase, a gigantic noun-modifier, modifying "various advances."
Does all this make sense?
Mike
26 Dec 2020, 06:52
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