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30 Nov 2010, 20:28
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In surprising medical news, scientists investigating long-term effects of stroke are reporting that injury to a specific part of the brain, located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit.
(A) brain, located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit
(B) brain located behind the ear can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit
(C) brain, located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break the habit of smoking
(D) brain located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit
(E) brain, the one located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break the habit of smoking
I disagree with the OA:
(A) brain, located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit
(B) brain located behind the ear can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit
(C) brain, located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break the habit of smoking
(D) brain located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break a smoking habit
(E) brain, the one located behind the ear, can instantly and permanently break the habit of smoking
I disagree with the OA:
The OA and explanation are:
But, in A, isn't "located behind the ear" incorrectly modifying "brain"? It's not the brain located behind the ear, but the particular part of the brain. The explanation claims that B makes it a run-on, but that's the only answer choice in which "located behind the ear" modifies the correct thing. Thoughts?
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But, in A, isn't "located behind the ear" incorrectly modifying "brain"? It's not the brain located behind the ear, but the particular part of the brain. The explanation claims that B makes it a run-on, but that's the only answer choice in which "located behind the ear" modifies the correct thing. Thoughts?
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01 Dec 2010, 00:18
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I selected the choice B as well. But when tried to justify the OA, Here Brain is not the subject but instead it is "a part of the brain" which is being modified. Hence it justifies the OA.
The OA and OE are hardly convincing. A is not the only one in which the ‘located behind the ear’ is separated by parenthesis. Even in C and E, they are set off by commas. The OE should explain what is wrong with C and E.
If the OE claims the B is a run-on, it is an awful blunder. A run-on is one that does not connect two independent sentences with a proper conjunction or punctuation. What punctuation or conjunction is missing in B
The modifier ‘located behind the ear’ does not categorically mean what it is modifying. There lurking doubt is that by leaving it naked, it may also modify the injury
Use of a smoking habit gives the feeling that the injury can stop one of a kind of several smoking habits; In contrast, the habit of smoking is all the way a better and more specific expression.
This is why I feel that E is the best of the lot, with its modifier ‘the one’ specifically referring to the part of the brain located behind the ear
Part of the brain is not the subject in this case, but it is the injury. Becos, the part of the brain is not stopping the habit of smoking. It is the injury that is stopping .
If the OE claims the B is a run-on, it is an awful blunder. A run-on is one that does not connect two independent sentences with a proper conjunction or punctuation. What punctuation or conjunction is missing in B
The modifier ‘located behind the ear’ does not categorically mean what it is modifying. There lurking doubt is that by leaving it naked, it may also modify the injury
Use of a smoking habit gives the feeling that the injury can stop one of a kind of several smoking habits; In contrast, the habit of smoking is all the way a better and more specific expression.
This is why I feel that E is the best of the lot, with its modifier ‘the one’ specifically referring to the part of the brain located behind the ear
Part of the brain is not the subject in this case, but it is the injury. Becos, the part of the brain is not stopping the habit of smoking. It is the injury that is stopping .
