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Updated on: 06 Jun 2019, 02:25
Originally posted by CrackverbalGMAT on 06 Jun 2019, 02:16.
Last edited by CrackverbalGMAT on 06 Jun 2019, 02:25, edited 1 time in total.
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Widely spoken English
1. American English
2. British English
3. Indian English
You are absolutely correct. A modifier is in fact a descriptor ,one of the basic ingredients in a cohesive sentence. A descriptor requires something that it can describe.
- The varieties of English is implicit in this case as the people or nationalities cannot be spoken, It has to be the variety in language.
- There is no such rule that 2 modifiers cannot modify one subject. Take the basic role of adjectives or verbs, they are modifiers too. The same subject can have more than one adjective and more than one verb.
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The reason the comma is required after the British is to separate and clarify the ambiguity that comes in due to run on sentence. With the comma, the intent of the question is clear :
Widely spoken English
1. American English
2. British English
3. Indian English
Without the comma, the meaning of the sentence is read as "and British the most ......", making "British" out to be a verb. For e.g: He Briticised the tea time . Instead of a nice laid-back affair, it turned out to be a very formal sit-down ceremony.
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This modifies "Indian English" . What they intend to say in the question is :
Widely spoken English
1. American English
2. British English
3. Indian English
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You are absolutely correct. A modifier is in fact a descriptor ,one of the basic ingredients in a cohesive sentence. A descriptor requires something that it can describe.
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- The varieties of English is implicit in this case as the people or nationalities cannot be spoken, It has to be the variety in language.
- There is no such rule that 2 modifiers cannot modify one subject. Take the basic role of adjectives or verbs, they are modifiers too. The same subject can have more than one adjective and more than one verb.
AkshdeepS
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The reason the comma is required after the British is to separate and clarify the ambiguity that comes in due to run on sentence. With the comma, the intent of the question is clear :
Widely spoken English
1. American English
2. British English
3. Indian English
Without the comma, the meaning of the sentence is read as "and British the most ......", making "British" out to be a verb. For e.g: He Briticised the tea time . Instead of a nice laid-back affair, it turned out to be a very formal sit-down ceremony.
06 Jun 2019, 02:22
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Thank you so much MonikaCrackVerbal for this clarification.
Actually, I talked that rules when they're as like as the following NOT the highlighted part (use of adjective, verb) at all.
Here is the perfect rules for using modifier:
1/ _____, modifier, _____ ---->ok
2/ _____ modifier _____ ---> ok
3/ _____, modifier _____ ---> NOT ok
4/ _____ modifier, _____ ---> NOT ok
NOTE: We can't have a COMMA on only one side of a modifier UNLESS the modifier begins or ends the sentence!
So, may I have any official sentence from GMAC where two consecutive (two modifiers stayed side by side) modifiers modify one specific thing? Your help will be appreciated.
Here is the correct sentence again-->
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^^ According to you,
after North American and British modifies "Indian English"
the most widely spoken of the many global varieties of English modifies "Indian English", too.
The above are the 2 consecutive modifiers.
MonikaCrackVerbal
If you think that I'm absolutely right here, it indicates that this sentence resembles rules number 4, which is the wrong use of modifier. This happens for the use of 2 consecutive modifiers.
Most importantly, if you think that I'm absolutely right here (the wrong use of modifier, which implies rules number 4), then the official correct sentence (after modified by generis and YOU) is wrong.
So, what's your conviction in this case?
Thanks__
