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in C] Argentina is the main subject of the first clause
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This is an incorrect interpretation of that structure.

All five answer choices are structured as
In La Plata, Argentina, [modifier of that city] , ...
in which the modifier is an appositive beginning with "one of the first cities...".


Two of the choices, B and E, do this entirely wrongly—i.e., don't contain an actual modifier where one is intended:

• Choice E erroneously contains an entire independent clause instead of a modifier here, so it can be eliminated on the spot. (The subject of that clause doesn't agree with the verb, either, but there's no point in thinking that far because the presence of any independent clause is already ungrammatical.)

• In choice B, the modifier is blocked off by a comma on the left but by a semicolon on the right. That's not acceptable; it needs to be comma-blocked on both sides.



In choice C, the appositive modifier is
... , one of the first cities to offer complimentary wireless internet access to the public, ...
which is a perfectly valid structure.




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in B] is there anything wrong with the prepositional phrase starting with 'WITH'
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That particular phrase is fine.

Choice B has the problem described above. In addition, the tense of "has offered"—which implies that this is a recent past occurrence, rather than something that's true at present (as required by the tense of the main clause)—makes no sense.
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in C] should not there be a verb for Argentina. It is the main subject and we are just making an appositive phrase out of it. Are there any more examples based on this construction?

in B] I thought that semicolon starts an independent clause and 'with a wireless...'' is a modifier for the upcoming independent clause.

what is wrong in assuming the structure as above?


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please clarify

in C] Argentina is the main subject of the first clause

This is an incorrect interpretation of that structure.

All five answer choices are structured as
In La Plata, Argentina, [modifier of that city] , ...
in which the modifier is an appositive beginning with "one of the first cities...".


Two of the choices, B and E, do this entirely wrongly—i.e., don't contain an actual modifier where one is intended:

• Choice E erroneously contains an entire independent clause instead of a modifier here, so it can be eliminated on the spot. (The subject of that clause doesn't agree with the verb, either, but there's no point in thinking that far because the presence of any independent clause is already ungrammatical.)

• In choice B, the modifier is blocked off by a comma on the left but by a semicolon on the right. That's not acceptable; it needs to be comma-blocked on both sides.



In choice C, the appositive modifier is
... , one of the first cities to offer complimentary wireless internet access to the public, ...
which is a perfectly valid structure.




Quote:
in B] is there anything wrong with the prepositional phrase starting with 'WITH'

That particular phrase is fine.

Choice B has the problem described above. In addition, the tense of "has offered"—which implies that this is a recent past occurrence, rather than something that's true at present (as required by the tense of the main clause)—makes no sense.
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in C] should not there be a verb for Argentina. It is the main subject and we are just making an appositive phrase out of it. Are there any more examples based on this construction?

in B] I thought that semicolon starts an independent clause and 'with a wireless...'' is a modifier for the upcoming independent clause.

what is wrong in assuming the structure as above?


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please clarify

in C] Argentina is the main subject of the first clause

This is an incorrect interpretation of that structure.

All five answer choices are structured as
In La Plata, Argentina, [modifier of that city] , ...
in which the modifier is an appositive beginning with "one of the first cities...".


Two of the choices, B and E, do this entirely wrongly—i.e., don't contain an actual modifier where one is intended:

• Choice E erroneously contains an entire independent clause instead of a modifier here, so it can be eliminated on the spot. (The subject of that clause doesn't agree with the verb, either, but there's no point in thinking that far because the presence of any independent clause is already ungrammatical.)

• In choice B, the modifier is blocked off by a comma on the left but by a semicolon on the right. That's not acceptable; it needs to be comma-blocked on both sides.



In choice C, the appositive modifier is
... , one of the first cities to offer complimentary wireless internet access to the public, ...
which is a perfectly valid structure.




Quote:
in B] is there anything wrong with the prepositional phrase starting with 'WITH'

That particular phrase is fine.

Choice B has the problem described above. In addition, the tense of "has offered"—which implies that this is a recent past occurrence, rather than something that's true at present (as required by the tense of the main clause)—makes no sense.
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Hello himanshu0123,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the subject of this sentence is actually "anyone"; "Argentina" is just a part of a prepositional phrase - "In Argentina..." that modifies the clause "anyone...may access the Internet...".

We hope this helps.
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in B] we are expressing the result of an action in the present through present perfect.
what is wrong is doing that.

please help me understand more the usage of this tense.

we have a semicolon which separates two indpendent clauses. anything wrong in there?
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in B] we are expressing the result of an action in the present through present perfect.
what is wrong is doing that.

please help me understand more the usage of this tense.

we have a semicolon which separates two indpendent clauses. anything wrong in there?
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Hello mansianand1234,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, Option B could only do what you have described if it was preceded by a "that".

As it stands, Option B forms the clause "one of the first cities has offered complimentary wireless Internet access to the public"; this clause is acted upon by the phrase "In La Plata, Argentina", illogically implying that within La Planta, one of the first ever cities has offered complimentary wireless Internet access to the public; the intended meaning is that La Plata is one of the first cities that has offered complimentary wireless Internet access to the public.

We hope this helps.
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