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hi,

Please let me know why there is "receives" in non-underlined portion. Also, what does "its" refer to in OA?
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hi,

Please let me know why there is "receives" in non-underlined portion. Also, what does "its" refer to in OA?

Why do you think "receives" should be in underlined part, and what do you think "its" refers to here?
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hi,

Please let me know why there is "receives" in non-underlined portion. Also, what does "its" refer to in OA?

Why do you think "receives" should be in underlined part, and what do you "its" refers to here?

hi,
i am not saying receives should be underlined, i just wanted to know the subject of it.
i have highlighted the "its"


Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.


(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again

(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again

(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status

(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again

(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity
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hi,

Please let me know why there is "receives" in non-underlined portion. Also, what does "its" refer to in OA?

Why do you think "receives" should be in underlined part, and what do you "its" refers to here?

hi,
i am not saying receives should be underlined, i just wanted to know the subject of it.
i have highlighted the "its"


Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.


(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again

(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again

(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status

(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again

(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity

Hello my Friend,

Then my question becomes what does come to your mind as the subject for the verb "receives"?
And if you have any doubt regarding the noun referred by the pronoun "its", again what do you think "its" refers?

I do not think anyone, let alone will be able to answer your questions if you do not provide this information.

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Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.


(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again
Redundancy – regains and again
JR and GM….often goes into decline after death – Incorrect meaning

(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again
Redundancy – regains and again
Its is referring to reputation

(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status
Best of All.
Its is referring to reputation

(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again
Redundancy – regains and again
JR and GM….who declines in reputation – Incorrect meaning.

(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity
Sounds like JR /GM HAS declined in reputation. Incorrect meaning.
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So ,

IC , Conjunction + Subordinate clause parralel to a Subordinate clause is OK ????

The conjunction doesnt even have its own subject and full bonafide verb

IC , Conjuction IC is widely believed to be the correct structure.

Request you to have a go at this query.

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Concept tested: Redundancy, preposition, parallelism, modifiers.
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Illustration: Carefully examine the following sentence
My sister, who is a teenager, and whose street play was appreciated by all, won the local talent award yesterday.
This is a perfectly correct sentence as “who is a teenager” and “whose street play was appreciated by all” both modifier the subject “My sister”.

Now lets look at the options.
A is wrong because the composer does not go into decline after his or her death, but his or her reputation does.
B is incorrect because it uses redundant construction “regains its status again”.
D and E are wrong for the same reason we eliminated A i.e the composer himself does not go into decline after death.
C is correct (option C breaks the FANBOYS rule, which a lot of prep companies advocate to eliminate answer choices. Please see below for clarification.).
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Thanks for the co-operation in the forum.
Could you have a look to the highlighted part, please?
Quote:
My sister, who is a teenager, and whose street play was appreciated by all, won the local talent award yesterday.
If you remove the modifier part, the core will be:
My sister, who is a teenager, and whose street play was appreciated by all, won the local talent award yesterday.
^^
My sister and whose street play was appreciated by all, won the local talent award yesterday.
It seems that this one is not the full sentence at all! Could you clarify your thought if I miss anything, please?
Thanks in advance..
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Hi

However, there is something else happening in Choice B. Notice that the subject “reputation” has two verbs “declines” and “regains”. These two verbs are correctly joined by “and”. This construction makes entire choice be the second entity in the parallel list, the first being “who often receives…”. Now since there are just two entities in the list per choice B, there should be a marker between the two entities, i. e. before “whose”. But there is no marker. This is another error.

I'm not really clear about the boldened part. What do you mean by ' this construction makes entire choice be the second entity in the parallel list'-- and what exactly are the two errors? Can you also pls mention how the correct sentence would look like as per the explanation?


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Hi debayan,

You ask very valid questions. Let me give answer to both your questions here.

Choice B: whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again.

There is no problem with the reference of “whose” here. Just like “who”, “whose” also refers to “the kind of composer”. Look at this simple sentence:

The man with white hat is my uncle who has three yachts, and whose brewery is famous nationwide.

In the very same, in the official choice B, “whose” clearly refers to “the kind of composer” without any ambiguity. Now “who” is a relative pronoun that may be preceded by a comma or may not be preceded by one. Presence of comma does not affect its modification or of any other parallel entity in the list.

However, there is something else happening in Choice B. Notice that the subject “reputation” has two verbs “declines” and “regains”. These two verbs are correctly joined by “and”. This construction makes entire choice be the second entity in the parallel list, the first being “who often receives…”. Now since there are just two entities in the list per choice B, there should be a marker between the two entities, i. e. before “whose”. But there is no marker. This is another error.

Now let’s take a look at the use “former” in choice C: but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status

Use of former suggests that after death, certain kind of composer does not enjoy that level of popularity that he/she enjoyed while alive. It’s not that he/she loses all the popularity. He/ she retains some popularity but not that popularity that he/she enjoyed when he/she was alive.

Hope this helps. :)
Thanks.
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Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.


(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again

(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again X

(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status CORRECT

The way the sentence is written, a contrast demarcated by ‘but’ is required. ‘…examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, BUT whose…

(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again X

(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity X
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In C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status. Why aren't we repeating the relative pronoun? I thought it should be: but whose reputation declines after death and whose reputation never regains its former status. Some experts please clear my concept of repeating relative pronoun.

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In C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status. Why aren't we repeating the relative pronoun? I thought it should be: but whose reputation declines after death and whose reputation never regains its former status. Some experts please clear my concept of repeating relative pronoun.

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Hello AbhishekDhanraJ72,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, there is no need to repeat the phrase "whose reputation"; here, "declines" and "regains" are two verbs linked by "and" that both act upon the noun "reputation", so repeating "whose reputation" would just be redundant.

We hope this helps.

All the best!

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Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.


(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again

(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again

(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status

(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again

(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity

'Never' & 'Again' shouldn't be used for the same intended meaning as it soulds redundant. Hence A, B, D are out. Now use of But in B serves the intended purpose of showing contrast in the sentence. in E 'then' sounds ambigous in that it is not known to where it is referrring. Hence C is the best option.
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Hi ExpertsGlobal5

Could one think that the phrase "often goes into decline after death" in option A modify 'popular acclaim'?
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