priyanshu14 wrote:
Dear sir/mam,
Please support to provide the explanation why C is correct and not B.
I have given GMATclub test today and not convinced with its explanation.
Hi Priyanshu.
Identify what *jobs* each chunk of the sentence in B is 'doing' in the sentence. Each word of chunk of words in a sentence can be thought of as playing one of three roles: Clause (subject-verb), Conjunction, or Modifier (description).
(See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIsU_JI7Z6w)
Here's sentence B:
In his movie scenes, meticulously integrating them with his state of the art special effects sequences, James Cameron banked on his exceptional cinematography skills and understanding of innovative new technologies.
What job is each chunk doing? "In his movie scenes" is a modifier. It's describing 'where' James Cameron relies on his skills and understanding. What is 'meticulously integrating them...special effect sequences?' It's also description. It seems to be describing the way in which James Cameron relies on his skills and understanding. (often '--ing' modifiers separated by a comma can be thought of 'linking to' the verb of the clause they modify). The pronoun 'them' looks like it must refer to 'his movies scenes.'
So we basically have "In his movie scenes, meticulously integrating [his movie scenes] with his state of the art special effect sequences, James Cameron banked on...skills and understanding."
So in his scenes, he meticulously integrated his scenes, as he banked on his skills and understanding...?
That doesn't make sense... How did he meticulously integrate his scenes in his scenes?
It's a weird sort of recursion/redundancy. The sentence sorts like this:
[
In his movie scenes],] [
(meticulously integrating them with his state of the art special effects sequences), James Cameron banked on his exceptional cinematography skills and understanding of innovative new technologies].
Consider the sentence:
"In the apartment, living in it for his entire childhood, he went through the biggest stages of his development."
Similar issue.
Now look at the right answer and think about how it might 'organize' based on the 'role' of the word-chunks?
In his movie scenes, which he meticulously integrated with his state of the art special effects sequences, James Cameron banked on his exceptional cinematography skills and understanding of innovative new technologies.
In this sentence "in his movie scenes" has the same role (where Cameron banked on skills and understanding). But 'which he meticulously integrated' is now describing the *movie scenes*, not the main clause of the sentence. It's a 'sub modifier' in a larger modifying chunk.
[
In his movie scenes, (which he meticulously integrated with his state of the art special effects sequences)], [
James Cameron banked on his exceptional cinematography skills and understanding of innovative new technologies. ]
This exercise of coloring and clumping can really help you develop a strong sense of structure and meaning.